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
(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
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