- Recently Received and Recommended Books: Volume 14
The following list includes recent books of poetry or poetics recommended by Valparaiso Poetry Review.
Publishers are encouraged to send review copies of new poetry collections or volumes on poetics to the address below. Reviewers interested in submitting a critical analysis of any of the following books for publication in Valparaiso Poetry Review are invited to e-mail their reviews to VPR@Valpo.Edu:
Valparaiso Poetry Review
Edward Byrne, Editor
Department of English
Valparaiso University
Valparaiso, IN 46383Ai: The Collected Poems, W.W. Norton
Amen, John and Harris, Daniel Y.: The New Arcana, NYQ Books
Armitage, Simon: Walking Home: A Poet's Journey, Liveright
Aull, Felice: The Music Behind Me, Alabaster leaves Publishing
Bar-Nadav, Hadara: The Frame Called Ruin, Western Michigan University Press
Bateman, Claire: Locals: A Collection of Pros Poems, Serving House Books
Baumgaertner, Jill Pelaez (Ed.): Imago Dei: Poems from Christianity and Literature, Abilene Christian University Press
Bingham, Remica L.: What We Ask of Flesh, Etruscan Press
Bishop, Suzette Marie: Horse-Minded, CW Books
Blevins, Andrew: Bloodline, Hollyridge Press
Bly, Robert: Talking into the Ear of a Donkey, W.W. Norton
Bolina, Jaswinder: Phantom Camera, Western Michigan University Press
Boran, Pat: The Next Life, Dedalus Press
Bredle, Jason: Carnival, University of Akron Press
Bridgford, Kim: Bully Pulpit, White Violet Press
Brodskey, Louis Daniel: Our Time, Time Being Books
Bruce, Debra: Survivors' Picnic, Word Press
Buchanan, Oni: Must a Violence, University of Iowa Press
Burns, Cliff: New and Selected Poems, Black Dog Press
Daniel Carter: Here Both Sweeter, (Wick Poetry Chapbook Series) Kent State University Press
Carter, Jared: A Dance in the Street, Wind Publications
Case, Susana H.: Elvis Presley's Hips & Mick Jagger's Lips, Anaphora Literary Press
Chuc, Teresa Mei: Red Thread, Fithian Press
Clark, Patricia: Sunday Rising, Michigan state University Press
Cleary, Michael: Bearable Weight, CW Books
Collier, Michael: An Individual History, W.W. Norton
Cook, Christina: Lake Effect, Finishing Line Press
Covino, Peter: The Right Place to Jump, Western Michigan University Press
Cramer, Steven: Clangings, Sarabande Books
Creedon, Carolyn: Wet, Kent State University Press
Crummey, Michael: Under the Keel, Anansi
Davis, Allison: Poppy Seeds, (Wick Poetry Chapbook Series) Kent University Press
Delany-Ullman, Lorene: Camouflage for the Neighborhood, Firewheel Editions
Dickinson, Adam: The Polymers, Anansi
Dickman, Matthew: Mayakovsky's Revolver, W.W. Norton
Doyle, James: The Long View Just Keeps Treading Water, Accents Publishing
Evans, CJ: A Penance, Western Michigan University Press
Fink, Robert A.: Strange You Never Knew, Wings Press
Fisher-Wirth, Ann: Dream Cabinet, Wings Press
Fishman, Charles Ades: In the Path of Lightning: Selected Poems, Time Being Books
Flynn, Keith: Colony Collapse Disorder, Wings Press
Flynn, Nick: The Reenactments: A Memoir, W.W. Norton
Franco, James: Strongest of the Litter, Hollyridge Press
Glaser, Elton: The Law of Falling Bodies, University of Arkansas Press
Goodyear, Dana: The Oracle of Hollywod Boulevard, W.W. Norton
Gregorich, Barbara: Crossing the Skyway, Philbar Books
Guinzio, Carolyn: Spoke & Dark, Red Hen Press
Harjo, Joy: Crazy Brave: A Memoir, W.W. Norton
Hayden, Robert (Frederick Glaysher, Ed.): Collected Poems, Liveright
Hutchison, Joseph: Thread of the Real, Conundrum Press
Irwin, Mark: Large White House Speaking, Western Michigan University Press
Jesme, Kathleen: Meridian, Tupelo Press
Jordan, A. Van: The Cineaste, W.W. Norton
Keplinger, David: The Most Natural Thing, Western Michigan University Press
Kelsay, Karen: Amytis Leaves Her Garden, White Violet Press
Lenox, Stephanie: Congress of Strange People, Airlie Press
Louis, Adrian C.: Savage Sunsets, West End Press
Ludwig, Marni: Pinwheel, Western Michigan University Press
Marlatt, Rick: Desired Altitude, Standing Rock
Matos, Carol: The Hush Before the Animals Attack, Main Street Rag Publishing Company
McBride, Greg: Porthole, Briery Creek Press
McCrady, Anne: Letting Myself In, Dos Gatos Press
McCray, Mary: Why Photographers Commit Suicide, Trementina Books
McDuffie, Dawn: Flag Day in Detroit,Adastra Press
Morrison, B.: Terrarium, Cottey House Press
Neruda, Pablo (Tr. William Pitt Root): Sublime Blue: Selected Early Odes by Pablo Neruda, Wings Press
Olson, Ted: Revelations, Celtic Cat Publishing
O'Neil, Mary Anne: From Babel to Pentecost: The Poetry of Pierre Emmanuel, McGill-Queen's University Press
ORourke, Meghan: Once, W.W. Norton
Orr, Gregory: River Inside the River, W.W. Norton
Oswald, Alice: Memorial, W.W. Norton
Ott, Martin: Captive, C&R Press
Pence, Charlotte: The Branches, the Axe, the Missing, Black Lawrence Press
Peters, Sara: 1996, Anansi
Pinsky, Robert: Singing School: Leaarning to Write (and Read) by Studying with the Masters), W.W. Norton
Pinto, Sayra: Pinol, Shabda Press
Pippin, Stephanie: The Messenger, University of Iowa Press
Post, Connie: And When the Sun Drops, Finishing Line Press
Rammelkamp, Charles: Fusen Bakudan: Poems of Altruism and Tragedy in Wartime, Time Being Books
Randall, Margaret: The Rhizome as a Field of Broken Bones, Wings Press
Rich, Adrienne: Later Poems: Selected and New: 1971-2012, W.W. Norton
Richardson, Robert D. (Ed.): Henry David Thoreau: October, or Autumnal Hints, W.W. Norton
Robbins, Joshua: Praise Nothing, University of Arkansas Press
Rogers, Elizabeth Lindsey: Chord Box, University of Arkansas Press
Rowell, Charles Henry (Ed.): Angles of Ascent: A Norton Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry, W.W. Norton
Sampson, Dennis: The Lunatic in the Trees, Settlement House
Schultz, Philip: Dyslexia, W.W. Norton
Sharpe, Jamie: Animal Husbandry Today, ECW Press
Siegel, Joan I.: Light at Point Reyes, Shabda Press
Sofer, Andrew: Wave, Main Street Rag Publishing Company
Stanescu, Nichita (Tr. Sean Cotter): Wheel with a Single Spoke, Archipelago Books
Staples, Catherine: The Rattling Window, Ashland Poetry Press
Stren, Gerald: In Beauty Bright, W.W. Norton
Sullivan, David Allen: Every Seed of the Pomegranate, Tebot Bach
Swann, Brian: In Late Light, Johns Hopkins University Press
Wheeler, Susan: Meme, University of Iowa Press
Wolpe, Sholeh (Ed.): Breaking the Jaws of Silence: Sixty American Poets Speak to the World, University of Arkansas Press
Wolpe, Sholeh, Keeping Time with Blue Hyacinths, University of Arkansas Press