September 24, 2021
On The Water Statues by Fleur Jaeggy
Translated by Gini Alhadeff. New York, NY. New Directions, 2021. 96 pages. $13.95. In Gilles Deleuze’s essay “1874: Three Novellas, or ‘What Happened?’” he describes the novella as a form […]
September 24, 2021
Longenbach’s Forever
James Longenbach. W.W. Norton, 2021. 80 pages. $26.95. On the one hand, James Longenbach’s new collection of poems, Forever, resembles a novel: it’s the story of a marriage as seen […]
September 17, 2021
“Empire Gold” : A Review of Claire Meuschke’s UPEND
Blacksburg, Virginia: Noemi, 2020. 113 pages. $18.00. Descent into the archive harrows the person who goes looking as sharply as it sorts the past, its present. To read against it […]
September 10, 2021
On Deluge by Leila Chatti
Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon, 2020. 98 pages. $17.00. Fellini’s La Dolce Vita opens with two helicopters flying over the ruined viaducts and fields at the poor outskirts of Rome: […]
September 10, 2021
How History Claims Us: On Made to Explode by Sandra Beasley
New York, NY: W.W. Norton and Company, 2021. 95 pages. $26.95. In a mixture of the minute and the momentous, filled with references to people and events familiar and perhaps […]
September 3, 2021
On The Curious Thing by Sandra Lim
New York, NY: W.W. Norton, 2021. 58 pages. $26.95. The Curious Thing, Sandra Lim’s third collection, beguiles. Its poems—which traffic in neat lines, adhere to the left margin, present simple […]
August 27, 2021
Unearthing Memory and Reclaiming the Feminine in Shanta Lee Gander’s GHETTOCLAUSTROPHOBIA
Richmond, VA: Diode Editions, 2021. 100 pages. $18.00. Shanta Lee Gander’s dedicates her remarkable debut, GHETTOCLAUSTROPHOBIA: Dreamin of Mama While Trying to Speak Woman in Woke Tongues to “all of […]
August 20, 2021
The Aesthetics of Cosmic Feminism: A Review of Magda Cârneci’s FEM
Translated by Sean Cotter. Dallas, TX: Deep Vellum Publishing, 2021. 232 pages. $15.95. The English publication of FEM—Romanian poet and translator Magda Cârneci’s only novel—continues a procession of important feminist […]
August 16, 2021
August 2021 Micro-Reviews
KR celebrates Women in Translation Month with micro-reviews of six new collections of poetry in translation. #WIT #KRTranslates —KH Baiba Bičole. To Taste the River. Trans. Bitite Vinklers. Plamen Press. […]
August 13, 2021
On The Nightfields by Joanna Klink
New York: Penguin Books, 2020. 112 pages. $20.00. “I don’t know when it began, / the will to sort moment / from moment,” writes Joanna Klink at the outset of […]
August 13, 2021
Poems That Linger: Peter Campion’s One Summer Evening at the Falls
Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, Phoenix Poets Series, 2021. 88 pages. $18.00. Jeanette Winterson, in her essay collection Art Objects, reminds readers: poetry “cuts through the noise and […]
July 30, 2021
“In Front of Strangers I Sing”: The Strange Intimacy of Paul Celan
Paul Celan. Memory Rose Into Threshold Speech. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020. 592 pages. $45.00. The completion of Pierre Joris’s decades-spanning project of translating all of Paul Celan’s […]