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Visitations: Poems
As readers always interested in finding and sharing titles, the book review editors launched a sure-bet survey last summer in advance of LJ’s yearlong celebration of our 150th anniversary. This month, we feature poetry. This form of expression provides readers with an experience of language, construction, meaning, and moment, vastly larger than the sum of its parts, which themselves are refined and closely considered. Poetry’s appeal is in the space where line, thought, and word combine into a reading experience that offers a revelation beyond what the text appears to hold.
Looking to celebrate National Poetry Month in April or hoping to update your poetry collection? Take a look at this display shelf.
Swensen’s insightfully idiosyncratic prose lyrics connect readers to their surroundings in new and surprising ways, reintroducing things and investing them with a prescient awareness and intelligence.
One Moment: Poems
Like the poets Ilya Kaminsky and Mosab Abu Toha, Moysaenko writes of current realities with an urgency and candor that demand attention and overcome the temptation to tune out suffering that occurs far from readers’ shores.
blush / river / fox
A Man, a Woman & a Hippopotamus
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