Autobiography of Death

Kim Hyesoon translated by Don Mee Choi New Directions ($16.95) by John Bradley “On the subway train your eyes roll up once. That’s eternity. //

Dolefully, a Rampart Stands

Paige Ackerson-Kiely Penguin Books ($18) by Thomas Moody I first came across the poetry of Paige Ackerson-Kiely in Michael Robbins’s “Playlist,” a litany of Robbins’s

Oculus

Sally Wen Mao Graywolf Press ($16) by Margaryta Golovchenko It’s one thing to discuss the implications of the gaze in a strictly academic style; it

The Book

Stéphane Mallarmé translated by Sylvia Gorelick Exact Change ($15.95) by Olchar E. Lindsann “Yes, I know,” wrote the experimental poet Stéphane Mallarmé in May of

Windy Day at Kabekona

Thomas R. Smith White Pine Press ($16) by Allan Cooper For the last four decades, Wisconsin poet Thomas R. Smith has been quietly writing some

After Effects

Judith Janoo Finishing Line Press ($14.99) by George Longenecker Judith Janoo’s poems in After Effects are deeply personal, and at the same time historical and

Ghost Wall

Sarah Moss Farrar Straus and Giroux ($22) by Greg Chase A wall can keep people out, but it can also be used to hide something