A Treatise on Civil Power , Geoffrey Hill Little Pharma , Laura Kolbe Viva to those who have failed , Martin Espada Nobody , Alice Oswald Hybrida , Tina Chang Romey's Order , Atsuro Riley
DMZ Colony , Don Mee Choi Juvenilia , Ken Chen Not Here , Hieu Minh Nguyen How to Be Drawn , Terrance Hayes Mezzanine , Zoe Hitzig Thinking its Presence: Form, Race, and Subjectivity in Contemporary Asian American Poetry , Dorothy Wang
Focal Point , Jenny Qi Anybody , Ari Banias 77 Dream Songs , John Berryman Goddess of Democracy , Henry Wei Leung Natural History , Dan Chiasson The Sunflower Cast a Spell to Save Us from the Void , Jackie Wang The Lost Son (excerpts), Theodore Roethke
After not having read it for years, I revisited Ode on a Grecian Urn last night. My take on it below: Thou still unravish'd bride of quietness, Thou foster-child of silence and slow time, Sylvan historian, who canst thus express A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme: What leaf-fring'd legend haunts about thy shape Of deities or mortals, or of both, In Tempe or the dales of Arcady? What men or gods are these? What maidens loth? What mad pursuit? What struggle to escape? What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstasy? "Thou still unravish'd bride of quietness, / Thou foster-child of silence..." This time the strangeness of the first two lines struck me. No con...
The Renunciations: Poems , Donika Kelly Calling a Wolf a Wolf , Kaveh Akbar King Me , Roger Reeves Erosion , Jorie Graham Living Quarters , Adrienne Su Incarnadine , Mary Szybist The Bad Wife Handbook , Rachel Zucker In progress Autobiography of Death , Kim Hyesoon Goest , Cole Swensen
Finished : Language as Bodily Practice in Early China , Jane Geaney (scholarly work) Postcolonial Love Poem , Natalie Diaz Into Each Room We Enter , Charif Shanahan Or to Begin Again , Ann Lauterbach Eating in the Underworld , Rachel Zucker Archaeophonics , Peter Gizzi Schizophrene , Bhanu Kapil No Matter , Jana Prikryl
Finished from earlier : Chord , Rick Barot Finished : Life on Mars , Tracy Smith The Triggering Town: Lectures , Richard Hugo Bright Dead Things , Ada Limon Second Empire , Richie Hofmann Toxicon and Arachne , Joyelle McSweeney In progress : Into Each Room We Enter , Charif Shanahan