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jayy dodd
The Black Condition Ft. Narcissus

Nightboat Books, 2019

New Books in African American Studies New Books in American Studies New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Gender Studies New Books in Literature New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Poetry New Books in Politics & Society New Books Network July 16, 2019 Adrian King

If the prompt is “respond to a myth of Narcissus using thoughtful, meditative poems,” then jayy dodd gave us a beautiful answer. In The Black Condition Ft. Narcissus (Nightboat Books, 2019), jayy dodd offers her own brilliant reflections on so many things: the contemporary moment, dystopia, her transition, and more.... Read More

Dean Anthony Brink
Japanese Poetry and its Publics
From Colonial Taiwan to Fukushima
Routledge, 2018

New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in East Asian Studies New Books in Literary Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Poetry July 9, 2019 Roman Paşca

Is classical Japanese poetry something to be enjoyed in private, an object of study for scholars, or an item of public life teeming with hints about how to understand and deal with our past and our future? In Japanese Poetry and its Publics: From Colonial Taiwan to Fukushima (Routledge, 2018),... Read More

John Sibley Williams
As One Fire Consumes Another

Orison Books, 2019

New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Literature New Books in Poetry New Books Network June 21, 2019 Andrea Blythe

John Sibley Williams’ As One Fire Consumes Another (Orison Books, 2019) presents a familiar world full of burnings carried out on both the grand and intimate scale. The newspaper-like columns of prose poetry provide a social critique of the violent side of American culture centered within the boundaries of self... Read More

Sally Wen Mao
Oculus

Graywolf Press, 2019

New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Asian American Studies New Books in Literature New Books in Poetry New Books Network May 22, 2019 Andrea Blythe

In Oculus (Graywolf Press, 2019), Sally Wen Mao explores exile not just as a matter of distance and displacement, but as a migration through time and a reckoning with technology. The title poem follows a girl in Shanghai who uploaded her suicide onto Instagram. Other poems cross into animated worlds,... Read More

J Mase III
And Then I Got Fired
One Transqueer’s Reflections on Grief, Unemployment, and Inappropriate Jokes About Death
J Mase III, 2019

New Books in African American Studies New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Gender Studies New Books in Literature New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Poetry New Books in Politics & Society New Books Network May 13, 2019 Adrian King

In his own description of his book, And Then I Got Fired: One Transqueer’s Reflections on Grief, Unemployment, & Inappropriate Jokes About Death, J Mase III writes, “Feel free to scream directly into this book if you need to.” It is in this invitation that J Mase III takes on... Read More

Adriana X. Jacobs, “Strange Cocktail: Translation and the Making of Modern Hebrew Poetry” (U Michigan Press, 2018)

Adriana X. Jacobs
Strange Cocktail
Translation and the Making of Modern Hebrew Poetry
University of Michigan Press, 2018

New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Israel Studies New Books in Jewish Studies New Books in Literary Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Poetry New Books in Religion & Faith New Books Network May 2, 2019 Yaron Peleg

In Strange Cocktail: Translation and the Making of Modern Hebrew Poetry (University of Michigan Press, 2018), Adriana X. Jacobs offers a translation-centered reading of twentieth-century modern Hebrew poetry. Through close readings of poems by Esther Raab, Leah Goldberg, Avot Yeshurun, and Harold Schimmel, Jacobs shows how an intertwined poetics and praxis of translation... Read More

Frances Donovan, “Mad Quick Hand of the Seashore” (Reaching Press, 2018)

Frances Donovan
Mad Quick Hand of the Seashore
Love Poems
Reaching Press, 2018

New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Literature New Books in Poetry New Books Network April 24, 2019 Athena Dixon

Grey Held writes of Frances Donovan‘s book, Mad Quick Hand of the Seashore (Reaching Press 2018 ), “there is hunting for love, there is basking in love, there is longing.” This collection offers all of these things. It examines what it is to love romantically, sexually, as a friend, and... Read More