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PK Eriksson

Review: Shane McCrae

March 29, 2021

PK Eriksson

Books discussed in this review: The Language of My Captor (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2017) Sometimes I Never Suffered (New York: FSG, 2020) The Gilded Auction Block (New York: FSG, 2019)   As a first-generation white American, I have … Continued

Review: Arsenal/Sin Documentos by Francesco Levato

February 8, 2021

PK Eriksson

(Denver, CO: Clash Books. 2019) In an age where sprays and sprays of digital and streaming media envelop us in bright blooms and the rich scents of reality, poetry may not serve social change as much as it desires to … Continued

Review: My Mountain Country by Ye Lijun

March 2, 2020

PK Eriksson

Translated from Chinese by Fiona Sze-Lorrain (Storrs, CT: World Poetry Books, 2019) My Mountain Country, a collection of poems from three of her books in the original Chinese, tempts the Western reader to identify a bucolic romanticism in her work … Continued

A Review of Gloss by Rebecca Hazelton

August 12, 2019

PK Eriksson

(Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2019) Sharply contemporary and certainly urbane, Rebecca Hazelton’s third collection of poems, Gloss, balances a candor with, as one might expect from a collection named for a quality of appearances, an appreciation for the … Continued

A Review of The Fire Lit & Nearing by J.G. McClure

March 18, 2019

PK Eriksson

(Brooklyn, NY: Indolent Books, 2018) In a contemporary poetry landscape which focuses on style and a partisanship that commands the status quo, what about the poets who find joy in some tradition? J.G. McClure is such a poet. McClure turns … Continued

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