Kiriti Sengupta Hawakal Publishers ($10) by Jagari Mukherjee Kiriti Sengupta, the author of nine previous volumes of poetry and prose, came out with his latest book, Rituals, in April 2019. Sengupta’s loyal readers and fans, eagerly awaiting this new release, were presented with a bundle of poems unlike anything that the poet has composed before, […]
Reina María Rodríguez translated by Kristin Dykstra and Nancy Gates Madsen Ugly Duckling Presse ($18) by John Bradley In the title poem of this intriguing book, Cuban poet Reina María Rodríguez writes, “that’s where I’d like to live . . . / in the inexact place of a missing photo / missing so it can’t […]
Geoffrey Hill edited by Kenneth Haynes Oxford University Press ($27.95) by Patrick James Dunagan An engaging curiosity, The Book of Baruch by the Gnostic Justin was meant to be Geoffrey Hill’s final book of poems, and at the time of his death in 2016 it was left unfinished as he intended. Editor Kenneth Hayes tells […]
A Discussion of Forms, Labor, the Feminine, and Public Space by MC Hyland and Rebecca Lehmann Rebecca Lehmann is the author of the poetry collections Ringer (University of Pittsburgh Press, $17) which won the 2018 Donald Hall Prize for Poetry, and Between the Crackups (Salt, 2011). Her poetry and creative nonfiction have appeared in Tin […]