BIRNAM WOOD El Bosque de Birnam by José Manuel Cardona Tr. by Hélène Cardona Salmon Press, 2018 ISBN: 978-1-912561-18-6 The late José Manuel Cardona, star poet of Ibiza, scholar,…
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Your poem, Some Woman, speaks powerfully, voicing both the outrage, and witness, of what it means to live in our time. Could you please speak about your influences, what other…
Translations with an Introduction by Oksana Maksymchuk and Max Rosochinsky Marianna Kiyanovska’s latest poetry collection Babyn Yar: In Voices (Kyiv: Dukh i Litera, 2017) seems to take us to the…
Hallowed: New and Selected Poems By Patricia Fargnoli Tupelo Press, September 2017 ISBN-13: 978-1946482006 Reviewed by Z.G. Tomaszewski Reaching Toward What Shining We Are The poems in Patricia Fargnoli’s…
Yin and Yang: On Race in Claudia Rankine’s Citizen and Kamau Brathwaite’s Strange Fruit by Vladimir Lucien Two books that seem to come from a similar place. But even as…
Immigrant Model by Mihaela Moscaliuc University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015 ISBN-13: 978-0822963349 Reviewed by Michele Bombardier The first word of the first poem of Mihaela Moscalius’s Immigrant Model gives a clue that…
Remains by Jesús Castillo McSweeney’s, 2016, $20 Reviewed by Daniel Simonds Amid Jesús Castillo’s book-length serialization, Remains, the poet asks of his ever expanding domain: “Do I sit before the question…
Calenday by Lauren Haldeman 88 pages Rescue Press, 2014, $16 ISBN: 978-0-988-58736-6 Reviewed by Sara McGuirk Can one measure creation in a handful of days? Measure any outpouring in a…
Trembling of the City by Hagit Grossman, tr. Benjamin Balint 92 pages Shearsman Books, 2016, £9.95 / $17 ISBN 9781848614772 Hagit Grossman’s Trembling but Open Space Trembling of the…
Only More So by Millicent Borges Accardi 78 pages Salmon Poetry, 2016, €12 ISBN: 978-1-910669-28-0 Reviewed by Sam Pereira When one first picks up a copy of Only More So, the…