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The Eights by Dan Chelotti. The Poetry Society of America, (1 of a set of 4) $30. Reviewed by Emily Hunt The puzzle of death his architectu...

Doug Ramspeck LOVE THEORY The argument, I think, was over medieval bishops using a mace instead of a sword to circumvent canonical law...

Isa the Truck Named Isadore by Amanda Nadelberg. Slope Editions, $15. Reviewed by Benjamin A. Mack In Isa the Truck Named Isadore , Amanda ...

Eric Pankey TOMB FURNISHINGS Ark of river stone. Ashen residue of straw. Attic dust, cellar damp. Calabash adorned with cowries A conundrum,...

Anya Cobler Five poems HOSPITALITY The breadth of this pile of pollen-drip day- lilies, spread open to the sharp world, to any passing genoc...

Graeme Bezanson AMERICAN FOLKTALE All my closest compadres were named for Idaho which was named for nothing. Eleven set out west to the moun...

Part of the World by Robert Lopez. Calamari Press, $17. Reviewed by Leigh Murphy In his first novel, Robert Lopez leads the reader into a p...

Andrew Zawacki Introduction: Peter Gizzi / Andrew Joron / Elizabeth Willis Verse Festival / Thursday, March 29, 2007 / Mercury Art Works, At...

Broken World by Joseph Lease. Coffee House Press, $15. Reviewed by Emily Hunt In Broken World , Joseph Lease scrambles for self-definition ...

Kenneth Williams THE SUMMER HOUSE IN WINTER for Lisa Nardi The summer house in winter lifts like a saint into a sky not blue but bone white,...

The Revisionist by Miranda Mellis. Calamari Press, $12. Reviewed by Caitlin Brown In her novella The Revisionist , Miranda Mellis plunges h...

Peter Conners MEAT ZOO The monkeys had been burning all morning. In the midst of it all, peanuts were sold at a discount. Polar bears batted...

Natalie Lyalin TWO POEMS Düsseldorf Is For Sisters One is Scheherazade but they both wear overcoats. One traces sun’s rectangle on the floor...

Daniel Johnson THE REFLECTION OF ALL VISIBLE LIGHT The faces are white. The flowers white. I drive around town expecting the familiar--deer ...

Girly Man by Charles Bernstein. University of Chicago Press, $24. Reviewed by Thomas Fink Lamenting poetry’s lack of centrality in American...

Eugenio Montejo MY COUNTRY IN AN ANCIENT MAP The cartographer’s lines never lied, tracing his dream for us. Certainly many river channels w...

Craig Morgan Teicher A CURE FOR DEAD DOGS &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp . . . a...

The Undiscovered Country: Poetry in the Age of Tin by William Logan. Columbia University Press, $29.50. Reviewed by Brian Henry William Log...

The Return Message by Tessa Rumsey. W. W. Norton, $14.95. Reviewed by L. S. Klatt In The Return Message , Tessa Rumsey composes herself in ...

Touch to Affliction by Nathalie Stephens. Coach House Books, $16.95. Reviewed by Meg Hurtado With Touch to Affliction , Nathalie Stephens e...