Poetry

Contemporary Greece stands at the precipice as it recovers from the 2008 currency crisis. The Syrian Civil War has placed Greece as an entry point into Europe.

Though it could ring echoes of “These Are My Favorite Things” from The Sound of Music, author Jill Bialosky is too personal and wise to waste our time or her intention.

Angela Jackson’s biography A Surprised Queenhood in the New Black Sun: The Life and Legacy of Gwendolyn Brooks comes on the eve of the 100th anniversary of Brooks’ birth.

“These poems represent Jorie Graham at her unfettered best.”

This last book by poet, playwright, fiction writer, musician, David Budbill has all the deserved resonance of one’s "last words." One senses here the author’s deep awareness of aging and death, as

“Morín’s new book is one that begs to be read. It is more than engaging, more than new and different.”

“a potent cocktail of political anger and radical formal experimentation.”

Few poets have been as honored as W. S. Merwin, author of 20 books of poetry and translation, twice U.S.

“Scriptorium is a rare and beautiful collection of poetry.”

Whipsawing between passages of erotic ecstasy and suicidal despair, IRL by Tommy “Teebs” Pico reveals itself as a monument of self-lacerating beauty.

“This stunning final collection is one more reminder that Philip Levine is irreplaceable.”

“poems of longing, of grieving and wanting, poems of a recovered past and its once lost values. . . . an abundant volume to read.”