Verse chronicle

  • Identity cards

    Identity cards

    On recent poetry by Frederick Seidel, Ursula K. Le Guin, Max Ritvo, sam sax, jos charles, and Ada Limón.

  • Old wounds

    Old wounds

    On Wi the Haill Voice: 25 Poems by Vladimir Mayakovsky, translated by Edwin Morgan, Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong, The Astropastorals by Douglas Crase, A Memory of the Future by Elizabeth Spires, Stumbling Blocks: Roman Poems by Karl Kirchwey & Claude Before Time and Space by Claudia Emerson.

  • Hobson’s choice

    Hobson’s choice

    On recent poetry by C. K. Williams, Michael Longley, Simon Armitage, Brenda Shaughnessy & Robert Pinsky.

  • Hither & yon

    Hither & yon

    On Commotion of the Birds by John Ashbery, Falling Awake by Alice Oswald, Album for the Young (and Old) by Vera Pavlova, Lacunae: 100 Imagined Ancient Love Poems by Daniel Nadler & Fast by Jorie Graham.

  • Home & away

    Home & away

    On Forever Words by Johnny Cash, George Washington: Poems by Adam Fitzgerald, and more recently published poetry.

  • Foreign affairs

    Foreign affairs

    On newly published poetry.

  • Under the skin

    A Double Sorrow: A Version of Troilus and Criseyde by Lavinia Greenlaw; The Emperor of Water Clocks by Yusef Komunyakaa; The Collected Poems of John Crowe Ransom edited by Ben Mazer; Notes on the Assemblage, by Juan Felipe Herrera & Impossible Bottle by Claudia Emerson

  • Doing as the Romans do

    On Heaven, by Rowan Ricardo Phillips; Rome, by Dorothea Lasky; Breezeway, John Ashbery; A Woman Without a Country, by Eavan Boland; The Other Mountain, by Rowan Williams; and Nothing to Declare, by Henri Cole.

  • The glory days

    The glory days

    On Faithful and Virtuous Night by Louise Glück; Accepting the Disaster, by Joshua Mehigan; If the Tabloids Are True What Are You?, by Matthea Harvey; Gabriel, by Edward Hirsch; One Thousand Things Worth Knowing, by Paul Muldoon; The Heart Is Strange: New Selected Poems, by John Berryman

  • Civil power

    Reviews of Caribou , by Charles Wright; Directing Herbert White, by James Franco; The Road to Emmaus, by Spencer Reece; Roget’s Illusion, by Linda Bierds; and Broken Hierarchies: Poems, 1952–2012, by Geoffrey Hill, edited by Kenneth Haynes.

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