Jim Kates
A lawyer-poet’s arguments against war, racism, plutocracy, and despair are sharpened by moments of sensual attention and stubborn devotion.
Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger’s poetry carries historical weight, but Carlie Hoffman’s translations struggle to convey the formal poise of the originals.
All too often, Devin Johnston’s poems remain at the level of reportage.
Stark prairie lyrics of survival, memory, and reluctant belonging.
Jennifer Jean’s bilingual collection reveals how contemporary Arab women poets redefine storytelling, identity, and survival.
What may look at first like exercises in verbal acrobatics — closely rhymed sonnets, delicate madrigals, intricate sestinas — are simultaneously expressions of confessional, personal anguish.
Many of the poems in this new collection take in the world through a distinctively painterly eye for scenes and sketches.
If, as a commemorative volume, “Fifty Poems” introduces readers to sample the German poet more extensively, either in the original or in the range of translations currently available, it will have accomplished a valuable task.
This splendid book is a love letter and a dissertation, almost a song in itself.
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