frank: sonnets Mary Ellen SoltDiane Seuss The sonnet, like poverty, teaches you what you can do without, Diane Seuss writes in this brilliant, candid work, her most personal collection to date. These poems tell the story of a life at risk of spilling over the edge of the page, from Seusss working class childhood in rural Michigan to the dangerous allures of New York City and back again. With sheer virtuosity, Seuss moves nimbly across thought and time, poetry and punk, AIDS and
part bibliophilic anthem
“poethical” translations
Matsuo Basho (1644–1694) is arguably the greatest figure in the history of Japanese literature and the master of the haiku
celebrated editor of Oppen's letters
writing vertically to parentage
Wolf’s debut collection won the Peter Huchel Prize in 2006—she was its youngest recipient
which are then re-translated back into English
Een klein jaar lang stuurden ze elkaar met sardonisch genoegen strofes
Only award-winning poet Anne Carson could create a work that takes on the oldest of lyrical subjects — love — and make it this powerful
Through a documentary impulse
Retallack's radical intelligence is balm-like
part restless meditation on love and identity
