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
(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
(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