Milo De Angelis, born in 1951, is one of the most important living Italian poets. With this volume, Susan Stewart andPatrizio Ceccagnoli bring to English readers for the first time a facing-page edition of his most recent work: his book-length elegy,...

A chronicle of motherhood and infancy, Brady's "Mutability" marks the excesses of attention and love in this unique relationship, the gradual unfurling of one person into two. In poems and prose, these scripts offer a "model of duplicity", revealing...

"Quorum", the latest book from William Fuller, is a collection of vivid detours and deadpan visions arranged into forty-five sonnet-like poems. Employing an ear "that hears not what the eye / sees not, in detail", the poet makes his rounds through a...

An iconic work of Western art, Fragonard's "L'escarpolette", or "The Swing", is often reproduced and its famous foreground image of a young woman losing her slipper mid-swing is widely familiar. In "Reckitt's Blue", John Wilkinson explores that well-...

John Gallas, who guided us around the world in his celebrated anthology "The Song Atlas", here zooms in on Europe. The poems he perfects in English are chosen from the work of the famous (Akhmatova, Baudelaire, Pasolini) and the still-to-be known (th...

"A poem must say something that is true, in the same way that a scientific article makes true assertions. And, similarly, these assertions must not be trivial, they should appeal to the emotions of the reader" – Nachoem M. Wijnberg in an interview T...

In this anthology, Vincent Barletta, Mark L. Bajus, and Cici Malik treat the Iberian lyric in the late Middle Ages and early modernity as a deeply multilingual, transnational genre that needs to break away from the old essentialist ideas about langua...

At the heart of Joshua Weiner's new book is an extended poem with a bold political dimension and great intellectual ambition. It fuses the poet's point of view with Walt Whitman's to narrate a decentered time-traveling collage about Rock Creek, a tri...

In "The Crossing Fee" Iain Bamforth re-stages the odyssey of the legendary German hero who falls into a lake in the Black Forest and emerges in the China Sea. Circulating between Europe, the Philippines and Indonesia (where Bamforth worked for five y...

Chris Beckett grew up in 1960s Ethiopia, a country he describes as a "barefoot empire, home of black-maned lions... old priests decked out like butterflies and blazing young singers of Ethio-jazz". Ethiopia Boy plunges the reader into praise poems th...