The Thomas Salto – Timmy Straw
The Thomas Salto, a poetry collection largely set in and informed by the Reagan Era, reflects on the supposed timelessness of the 1980s, the American “golden age” the contemporary moment often nostalgically returns to.
Context Collapse: A Poem Containing a History of Poetry – Ryan Ruby
Market and technological forces are at the heart of Ruby’s analysis: How does poetry change in different social roles and contexts? How do different technologies and audience expectations shape poetry, and what happens when we think of poetry itself as a technology?
Holy Winter 20/21 — Maria Stepanova
Stepanova’s collection is deeply ambivalent about the role of historical rhymes
Nerves Between Song – Geoffrey Olsen
Even as human exceptionalism and capitalist greed threaten the survival of “other worlds,” life manages to return amid the ruins.
Did the poet make her speech presentable for the world? Is it smoothed out and proper enough? Did it go to Oxford and learn to use its commas?
Your Name, Palestine – Olivia Elias
As a child of the Nakba, Elias has dedicated her oeuvre to the Palestinian cause and to the memory of the repeated cycles of Palestinian displacement and oppression.
A History of the Island – Eugene Vodolazkin
Looming large in the minds of the citizens is a prophecy of final doom by Agafon the Forward-Looking, recurring in moments of political instability.