Kaufman, Ellen

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Double Jinx

Nancy Reddy | NONFICTION, Oct 15, 2015

A strong first book prize winner that takes up female identity as shaped by the inseparable maelstroms of girlhood and intimacy.

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Blue Fasa

Nathaniel Mackey | NONFICTION, Jun 15, 2015

A tale of improvisation and continuation whose poetics are a trip in every sense of that word.

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We Mammals in Hospitable Times

Jynne Dilling Martin | NONFICTION, Apr 15, 2015

Facts and whimsy collide like particles in these frenetic poems; a promising debut.

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War of the Foxes

Richard Siken | NONFICTION, Feb 15, 2015

Slippery, magnetic riffs on the arbitrary divisions made by the human mind in light of the mathematical abstractions that delete them; poetry lovers will want to read.

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Station Zed

Tom Sleigh | NONFICTION, Jan 01, 2015

Driven, muscular poems that wrestle with violence, love, and the hybrid self; recommended for most collections.

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City of Eternal Spring

Afaa Michael Weaver | NONFICTION, Nov 01, 2014

There is much pain here, as well as concern for the future, but mostly these poems celebrate love in the face of precariousness. The result: mystical, generous poems about difference in the context of universal truth.

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Where Are the Trees Going?

Vénus Khoury-Ghata | NONFICTION, Sep 15, 2014

The translations are clear—almost transparent. But English is not French, and it is too bad that none of the original text is included. [See "Books for the Masses," Editors' BEA Picks, LJ 7/14, p. 30.]