The Predatory Animal Ball

Jennifer Fliss Okay Donkey Press ($15) by Nick Hilbourn Jennifer Fliss’s new collection, The Predatory Animal Ball, carries an eerie sentiment, like an abandoned location

Eclogues in a Mustard Seed Garden

Glenn Mott Turtle Point Press ($18.95) by Simon Schuchat Eclogue, originally from the Greek, is a short poem on a pastoral subject. The Mustard Seed

Carnival Lights

Chris Stark Modern History Press ($25.95) by Shannon Gibney An impressive work about family, survival, and what one character calls the “spiral” of all stories,

Focal Point

Jenny Qi Steel Toe Books ($16) by Jessica Johnson The title of Jenny Qi’s Focal Point refers to a term in the lexicon of optics,

The Essential Muriel Rukeyser: Poems

Muriel Rukeyeser Selected by Natasha Trethewey Ecco ($16.99) By Warren Woessner In selecting 75 poems from Muriel Rukeyser’s prodigious body of work, former U.S. Poet

The Last Twist of the Knife

João Almino Translated from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Lowe Dalkey Archive Press ($14.95) by Douglas Messerli In this 2017 novel, translated by Elizabeth Lowe into