Tarn’s meditation on the German Romantic poet Friedrich Hölderlin explores both human ecstasy and suffering.
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Douglas Kearney’s Poetry of Performance
Kearney’s language — exquisitely torqued and modulated, sheering from the formal to the vernacular — reminds us that we are in the hands of a masterful performer.
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Raising Black Boys in a House of Love
in this house black boys blossom
black boys bloom
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Poetry That Targets Compliance as Complicity
Andrew Levy’s poems explore contemporary life with globe-spanning sweep and intensive probing.
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Artists Collectively Write a Poetry Book During the Pandemic
“The Poem is Telling Me I Remember” features collaborative poetry from the Oakland studio and gallery for artists with developmental disabilities.
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The Salacious and Scholarly Poems of Yusef Komunyakaa
The poet suggests his art’s highest calling isn’t truth-telling but stirring our empathic imagination.
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A Poet of Isolation and Uncertainty
The poems in Jean Day’s Late Human carry a sense of having arrived at a moment when nothing feels quite right.
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Giuseppe Ungaretti’s Wartime Poems
Ungaretti should be numbered among the ranks of such Great War poets as Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, and Isaac Rosenberg.
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Poetry as the “Art of Thinking It Through”
The linguistic imagination of William Fuller’s new collection, Daybreak, takes the form of sustained odysseys between philosophical abstraction and the everyday concrete.
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The City as Seen From a Hi-Rise Window
Ed Roberson’s poems express a troubled awareness of the earth’s exhaustion.
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The Rise of the Machines
Rebecca Morgan Frank’s poems critique sexism, objectification, and violence by depicting humans as robots.
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Fernando Pessoa and His Fictional Coterie of Poets
The Portuguese author concealed his identity behind aliases, or what he called heteronyms, who served as guides to living.