by Stephanie Burt | Aug 25, 2020
Insecurity Systemby Sara WainscottPersea Books, 2020 Ever read a crown of sonnets and wish you could read another one, and then more? Me neither, until the winningly, teasingly, loosely, expertly assembled array of fourteen-line items that comprise Sara Wainscott’s...
by Caitlin Thornbrugh | Jul 31, 2020
Maps and Transcripts of the Ordinary World by Kathryn Cowles Milkweed, 2020 Kathryn Cowles begins her poetry collection with an epigraph from John Berger, “The waters change all the while and stay the same only on the map.” She brings the reader to the earth,...
by Noah Davis | Jul 30, 2020
Crosscut by Sean Prentiss University of New Mexico Press, 2020 In a time when human communities have become more divorced than ever from the natural world, Sean Prentiss’ debut collection of poems, Crosscut, celebrates the binding and clarifying effects of...
by McKenzie Lynn Tozan | Jul 26, 2020
Louder Birds by Angela Voras-Hills LSU Press, 2020 From the first moment I stepped into Angela Voras-Hills’ collection, Louder Birds, I knew I was in the presence of something vital. The collection opens with the particularly captivating poem, “Retrospective,”...
