2024 Stars So Far | Poetry

by LJ Reviews
Jul 08, 2024 | Filed in Reviews+

Slip into the evocative pleasures of language with stellar works of revelation, confrontation, and grace.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bar-Nadav, Hadara. The Animal Is Chemical. Four Way. Mar. 2024. 118p. ISBN 9781961897007. pap. $17.95. 

Carson, Anne. Wrong Norma. New Directions. Feb. 2024. 192p. ISBN 9780811230346. pap. $17.95. 

Coutley, Lisa Fay. Host. Univ. of Wisconsin. Mar. 2024. 88p. ISBN 9780299347147. pap. $16.95. 

Dawes, Kwame. Sturge Town: Poems. Norton. Jun. 2024. 192p. ISBN 9781324076315. $26.99. 

Herbert, Zbigniew. Reconstruction of the Poet: Uncollected Works of Zbigniew Herbert. Ecco. Aug. 2024. 288p. ed. and tr. from Polish by Alissa Valles. ISBN 9780062883193. $30. 

Leonard, Rodney Terich. Another Land of My Body. Four Way. Mar. 2024. 116p. ISBN 9781954245945. pap. $17.95. 

Notley, Alice. Being Reflected Upon. Penguin Bks. (Penguin Poets). Apr. 2024. 144p. ISBN 9780143137979. pap. $20. 

Ondaatje, Michael. A Year of Last Things: Poems. Knopf. Mar. 2024. 128p. ISBN 9780593801567. $28. 

Pardlo, Gregory. Spectral Evidence: Poems. Knopf. Jan. 2024. 128p. ISBN 9781524731786. $28. 

Seuss, Diane. Modern Poetry: Poems. Graywolf. Mar. 2024. 112p. ISBN 9781644452752. $26. 

Smith, Danez. Bluff: Poems. Graywolf. Aug. 2024. 160p. ISBN 9781644452981. pap. $18. 

This Is the Honey: An Anthology of Contemporary Black Poets. Little, Brown. Jan. 2024. 448p. ed. by Kwame Alexander. ISBN 9780316417525. $35. 

 

 

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