Jim Kates
Jamaican poet Ishion Hutchinson’s New-World, nonwhite perspective claims its own stake in a history that we have come too much to associate with its imperialist heavyweights.
Read MoreA reprint from 50 years ago, this small book brings to the English-speaking world a strategic introduction to the work of a major French poet of the twentieth century.
Read MoreThe biography is a workmanlike introduction, valuable because it brings a measured understanding to Osip Mandelstam’s life and poetry as well as to the horrific decades he lived through.
Read MoreIn this valuable history, Thomas E. Ricks looks at the critical events of “The Second Reconstruction” as a series of campaigns in a nonviolent war.
Read MoreThe poems in this remarkable collection lead us, as all good literature should do, after all the appearances and misdirections, feints and antic dispositions, to nothing but ourselves.
Read MoreThis is a grim and uncomfortable book to read because it forces us to contemplate each small poem separately and then take them all together, a hard but necessary exercise.
Read MoreUnderlying all of these pieces is the sensibility of the émigrée, the person who has had to reinterpret everything in her life.
Read MoreIn his poetry, Houman Harouni has peopled a world with voices that are well worth listening to.
Read MoreThese poems are of their own time and place — written in Haiti and France early in the twentieth century — yet they remain impressively fresh.
Read MoreContinuous Creation is a deceptively slight book from an incontrovertibly substantial poet.
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