On Valentines by Ted Kooser, Fifty-Two by Melissa Green, The Wave-Maker by Elizabeth Spires, Seven Notebooks by Campbell McGrath, The Kingdom of Ordinary Time by Marie Howe, and Sea Change by Jorie Graham.
On The Biplane Houses by Les Murray, Gulf Music by Robert Pinsky, Expectation Days by Sandra McPherson, Littlefoot by Charles Wright, Waterlight: Selected Poems by Kathleen Jamie, and Time and Materials by Robert Hass.
On A Worldly Country by John Ashbery, Forty-Five by Frieda Hughes, Dance Dance Revolution by Cathy Park Hong, Ooga-Booga by Frederick Seidel, and Selected Poems: Expanded Edition by Robert Lowell.
On Natasha Trethewey’s Native Guard, Mark Strand’s Man and Camel, A. R. Ammons’s Ommateum, with Doxology, Louise Glück’s Firstborn, and Franz Wright’s God’s Silence.
On District and Circle by Seamus Heaney; Averno by Louise Glück; Landing Light by Don Paterson; Dear Ghosts, by Tess Gallagher; Decreation by Anne Carson; and Without Title by Geoffrey Hill
William Logan on current poetry.
Reviews of Where Shall I Wander, by John Ashbery; Elegy on Toy Piano, by Dean Young; Overlord, by Jorie Graham; Black Maria, by Kevin Young; Delights & Shadows, Flying at Night: Poems 1965–1985, & The Poetry Home Repair Manual, by Ted Kooser; Collected Poems, 1943–2004, by Richard Wilbur.
Reviews of Danger on Peaks, by Gary Snyder; American Smooth, by Rita Dove; Gilgamesh, by Derrek Hines; Gilgamesh: A New English Version, by Stephen Mitchell; The Prodigal, by Derek Walcott & Second Space, by Czeslaw Milosz.
Reviews of Selected Poems, by George Oppen, edited by Robert Creeley; Walking to Martha’s Vineyard, by Franz Wright; What Narcissism Means to Me, by Tony Hoagland; The Clerk’s Tale, by Spencer Reece; Buffalo Yoga, by Charles Wright & Collected Poems, by Philip Larkin, edited by Anthony Thwaite.
Reviews of Nine Horses, by Billy Collins; Departure, by Rosanna Warren; The Selected Poems of Howard Nemerov, by Howard Nemerov, edited by Daniel Anderson; The Perishing, by Sherod Santos; Blue Hour, by Carolyn Forché; & The Love Bomb, and Other Musical Pieces, by James Fenton.
