Robert Pinsky recently featured Peg Boyers’ latest book of poems Honey with Tobacco in his “Poet’s Choice” column in the Washington Post. Pinsky writes: Cuban
Making the poet available to contemporary readers of poetry without denying him his historical context, Selected Poems of Luis de Góngora represents Góngora as master
Publishers Weekly recently ran a positive review of James Longenbach’s most recent collection of poems Draft of a Letter. Praising one of the central themes
An extended meditation on how death affects those left behind, Under Sleep is a skillfully understated, beautifully rendered elegy for the poet’s partner. Formally inventive
In 2005 the Boston Globe published an editorial lamenting the lack of English translations of foreign literature. "In a literary global world, one is what
Draft of a Letter is a book about belief—not belief in the unknowable but belief in what seems bewilderingly plain. Pondering the bodies we inhabit,
Hard Bread, Peg Boyers’s debut poetry collection, with verse spoken in the imagined voice of the Italian writer Natalia Ginzburg, was widely praised for its
Every day the website Poetry Daily presents at least one new work from a contemporary poet excerpted from a book, magazine, or journal currently in
Last week, Robert Pinsky’s Poet’s Choice column in the Washington Post featured Charles Bernstein’s latest book, Girly Man. As Pinsky notes, much of the work
On Tuesday, Peter Stothard, editor of the Times Literary Supplement, posted an interesting comment on his blog about Joshua Weiner’s recent book of poems, From