Reviews of The Unswept Room by Sharon Olds; Jelly Roll (A Blues) by Kevin Young; At The Palace Of Jove by Karl Kirchwey; Poems The Size Of Photographs by Les Murray; Springing: New and Selected Poems by Marie Ponsot; and Middle Earth by Henri Cole.
Reviews of Book of My Nights, by Li-Young Lee; Now the Green Blade Rises, by Elizabeth Spires; Source, by Mark Doty; Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest, by B. H. Fairchild; The Nerve, by Glyn Maxwell; Moy Sand and Gravel, by Paul Muldoon.
Reviews of A Short History of the Shadow by Charles Wright; Poems Seven: New and Complete Poetry by Alan Dugan; The Watercourse by Cynthia Zarin; Belonging by Dick Davis; Never by Jorie Graham & The Orchards of Syon by Geoffrey Hill.
On Nativity Poems, by Joseph Brodsky; Against Love Poetry, by Eavan Boland; The Long Marriage, by Maxine Kumin; Rooms Are Never Finished, by Agha Shahid Ali; Landscape with Chainsaw, by James Lasdun & A Treatise on Poetry, by Czeslaw Milosz.
A review ofSeven Ages, by Louise Glück; The Beauty of the Husband, by Anne Carson; The Beforelife, by Franz Wright; The Darkness and the Light, by Anthony Hecht; Different Hours, by Stephen Dunn; The Tether, by Karl Phillips & Electric Light, by Seamus Heaney.
On Your Name Here, by John Ashbery; Talking Dirty to the Gods, by Yusef Komunyakaa; The Throne of Labdacus & Supernatural Love: Poems 1976-1992 by Gjertrud Schnackenberg; The Weather in Japan, by Michael Longley & Speech! Speech!, by Geoffrey Hill.
On On the Bus with Rosa Parks by Rita Dove, Midnight Salvage: Poems 1995-1998 by Adrienne Rich, The Lost Land by Eavan Boland, Vita Nova by Louise Glück, Wooroloo by Frieda Hughes, A Kiss in Space by Mary Jo Salter & Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse by Anne Carson.
On Sweet Machine by Mark Doty, Ten Commandments by J. D. McClatchy, The Bird Catcher by Marie Ponsot, A Working Girl Can’t Win by Deborah Garrison, Babylon in a Jar by Andrew Hudgins, Blizzard of One by Mark Strand & Hay by Paul Muldoon.
