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A Poetry Daily Prose Feature:
"Somewhere in a highland cloud forest in the middle 1500s, near the place where the continents of the Americas hinge upon their mountainous spine, a story was written down. The marks were likely made on paper made from bark, with ink darkened by soot. This story was already many centuries old—thousands of years, in fact—and it was etched into the hearts of the scribe or scribes who wrote it. It no doubt tripped readily from their lips in an incantatory rhythm. And it was written down secretly, line by line, the phonetic rendering of a living pulse, and spirited away. So the story goes... For a century and a half, no outsiders saw this book. Not a whisper of it appears anywhere."—Michael Bazzett, Introduction to The Popol Vuh
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"Two audacious formalists"
Collections by Hannah Sullivan and Danez Smith reviewed by Paul Batchelor. (New Statesman)
Poetry Sunday:
Rebecca Foust introduces "I Sit and Sew," by Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson. (Women's Voices for Change)
"Exiliados"
Rita Dove introduces a poem by Javier Zamora. (The New York Times Magazine)
"Second Acts: A Second Look at Second Books of Poetry:"
Lisa Russ Spaar continues her series, focusing on two poets who never published a second collection: Joan Murray and Christopher Gilbert. (Los Angeles Review of Books)
Kate Tempest, Medbh McGuckian, John Kelly
New collections reviewed by Caitriona O'Reilly. (The Irish Times)
"I am a poet without a landscape, a woman poet without a narrative heritage"
Christine Murray, founder of Poethead, on the inspiration for her new collection bind. (The Irish Times)
T. S. Eliot prize shortlist announced:
Ten "intensely political" collections selected. (The Guardian)
"Li Shangyin's shimmering ninth century poems"
Li Shangyin, selected and translated by Chloe Garcia Roberts, reviewed by Paddy Kehoe. (RTÉ)
Two new collections with Maine connections:
A Smattering of Stanley: Poems and Memoir, by George Chappell, and The Heroin Diaries: Little Stories to Understand Why, by Mary Dowd, reviewed by Dana Wilde. (Kennebec Journal & Morning Sentinel)
"Kaveh Akbar Reads Ellen Bryant Voigt"
Kaveh Akbar joins Kevin Young in the latest Poetry Podcast. (The New Yorker)
Shirley Toulson, 94
An obituary for the "poet and an innovative writer about Britain’s walks, ancient tracks and traditions." (The Guardian)
"A Polish Snow Globe:"
Josh Billings on Adam Mickiewicz’s Pan Tadeusz: The Last Foray in Lithuania, translated by Bill Johnston. (Los Angeles Review of Books)
"Found: 'forgotten' Anne Sexton poetry"
Zachary Turpin uncovers previously unknown work. (Houston Chronicle)
"Bringing Poetry to the Cruel History of Comfort Women"
A Cruelty Special to Our Species, by Emily Jungmin Yoon, reviewed by Maya Chung. (NYR Daily)
"Afternoon sex and the pursuit of poetry"
The Measure of Homer: The ancient reception of the Iliad and the Odyssey, by Richard Hunter, reviewed by Peter Thonemann. (The Times Literary Supplement)
"Millefeuille of civilizations"
Yasmine Seale on the reception and translation of Homer in Turkey. (The Times Literary Supplement)
Recently Arrived Titles
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list of all books and journals recently received at Poetry Daily is also available.
- Girls Are Coming Out of the Woods, Tishani Doshi (Copper Canyon Press)
- Gunshot, Peacock, Dog, Rick Campbell (Madville Publishing LLC)
- Midden, Julia Bouwsma (Fordham University Press)
- Footnotes, C. Perricone (Boatwhistle Books / Dufour Editions, Inc.)
- The Life That I Have, Knute Skinner (Salmon Poetry / Dufour Editions, Inc.)
- Days of Grace, Doris Kareva, tr. Miriam Ksenofontov (Bloodaxe Books / Dufour Editions, Inc.)
- Roar!, Martin Hayes (Smokestack Books / Dufour Editions, Inc.)
- Human, Daniel Corrie (Iris Press)
- The Book of Awe, Susan O'Dell Underwood (Iris Press)
- Blood Harmony, Lana Austin (Iris Press)
- Missile Hymnal Amulet, G. F. Boyer (Iris Press)
- Yellow Moving Van, Ron Koertge (University of Pittsburgh Press)
- Plasma, Bradley Paul (University of Pittsburgh Press)
- Sidebend World, Charles Harper Webb (University of Pittsburgh Press)
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