EarthlyJean Follain (trans. Andrew Seguin) Highly regarded and little known, the work of French poet Jean Follain evokes a specific consciousness, with intense affection for the world around it, surveying the landscape and its species, yet intimate with the most minute particularsthe umbels of plants, an insect crawling up a boot, the woman sitting on a hearth asking why beings and things and not nothing. Born in 1903 in Canisy, a small town in Normandy,

or a handful of angels

Mei-mei Berssenbrugge & Kiki Smith

sublime streets: patting rats

Black Box Named Like to Me challenges the limits of syntax and image to hold the full scope of the imaginary in its grasp

” A selection of Mandelstam’s prose irradiates the poetry with warmth and insight as he thinks back on his Petersburg childhood and contemplates his Jewish heritage

dokter Ricardo Reis

Two sonnet sequences interrupt Barbie Chang’s narrative with first-person lyricism and urgency

interrogated through anguished

Not only is it a masterful rendition of this classic

family ghosts

We join the Persian poet Hafez in the conquered city of Shiraz and converse with the Prophet Mohammad in Medina

John Berryman's The Dream Songs are perhaps the funniest