All Tomorrow's Train Rides
Reality is what poet Matthew M. Monte wants, in all its clarity and precision—even when what it reveals is harsh or cruel.
Reviewed by Lee Rossi
Reality is what poet Matthew M. Monte wants, in all its clarity and precision—even when what it reveals is harsh or cruel.
Reviewed by Lee Rossi
Matthew Cooperman’s latest collection is a portrait of the Cache la Poudre River in Colorado as well as an exploration of the peculiar concerns of ecopoetry itself.
Reviewed by Joe Safdie
For those interested in George Orwell’s complicated life and legacy, John Reed's The Never End: The Other Orwell, the Cold War, the CIA, MI6, and the Origin of Animal Farm is essential.
Reviewed by Zoe Berkovitz
Dramatic in the best sense of the word, Norbert Hirschhorn’s new collection is written to be spoken and meant to be heard.
Reviewed by Warren Woessner
Poet, critic, and translator Tiffany Troy discusses her full-length poetry debut, Dominus, and its mythic setting of Ilium, "where the imaginary, the historical, and the present can coexist.”
Interviewed by Rose DeMaris
Best known for the 1972 smash hit The Joy of Sex, the protean author Alex Comfort was actually a respected public intellectual influential in a variety of fields, as detailed in this new biography by Eric Laursen.
Reviewed by Richard Kostelanetz
A new edition of Robert Desnos’s truant poem marks the 50th anniversary of its translation into English by New York School poet Lewis Warsh.
Reviewed by Geoffrey Hagenbuckle
The grotesque yet inquisitive poetry of Joe Hall returns to the limelight in Fugue and Strike, his fourth full-length collection.
Reviewed by Greg Bem
Though he is still regarded as one of the essential Romantic poets and remembered for his wildly picaresque adventures, Byron’s opposition to oppression may be his most enduring legacy.
By Mike Dillon
Rob Schlegel’s fourth poetry collection examines parents' fragile emotional resilience in an age when capital and mass media tell us to find individual solutions for collective problems.
Reviewed by Stephanie Burt