We here at Philly Poetry Chapbook Review love poetry, whether it’s in chapbooks or full-length collections. We have a hunch that our readers do, too. Every Tuesday, we publish an update about what full-length poetry titles we know are releasing in the following week.
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The Patient Is an Unreliable Historian, Brody Parrish Craig
Publisher: Omnidawn
Publication Date: November 5, 2024
Format: Paperback
The poems of Brody Parrish Craig’s new collection upends narratives around current psychiatric treatment models to focus on the lived experience of survivors and to speak toward liberation, abolition, and disability justice. Titled after the author’s own medical records, The Patient Is an Unreliable Historian questions the prevailing narrative that the medical industry knows stories of disability and madness better than those who have lived them.
Craig uses lyricism to expose the intersection of madness and criminality in contemporary American culture, moving through institutions, community spaces, and loss of kin. Through the course of the collection, the speaker turns toward irreverence and interrogation, carves out their own freedom, and challenges the script of the patient, the mad, and the “criminal.” These poems deconstruct the “patient” to set the person free.
Brody Parrish Craig (they/them) is the author of Boyish, which won the 2019 Omnidawn Poetry Chapbook Contest. Their writing has been published in Muzzle Magazine, Poetry, Mississippi Review, New South, Missouri Review, and TYPO, among others. They are the editor of TWANG, a regional anthology of trans and gender nonconforming creators from the South and Midwest. A 2022 recipient of Artist 360’s Community Activator Award, Craig currently co-leads TLGBQ+ community arts programming in the Ozarks.
Percussing the Thinking Jar, Maw Shein Win
Publisher: Omnidawn
Publication Date: November 6, 2024
Format: Paperback
With her latest collection, Maw Shein Win deftly braids together the pleasures, pains, and anxieties of living in an aging body, revealing how a mind can log thoughts and observations. Win employs new poetic forms to invite her readers into realms that are both deeply personal and universal, rendered with dreamlike imagery and surprising humor. Reflecting on our strange times and the atmospheric undercurrents of chaos and disintegration, Percussing the Thinking Jar is a hypnotic book and invites the reader into conversation with their own vulnerability and resilience. Throughout the book, sumi ink drawings by artist Mark Dutcher echo the rhythms of Win’s poetry.
Maw Shein Win is the author of the chapbooks Ruins of a glittering palace and Score and Bone and of poetry collections including Invisible Gifts and Storage Unit for the Spirit House, the latter also published by Omnidawn and nominated for the Northern California Book Award in Poetry, longlisted for the PEN America Open Book Award, and shortlisted for CALIBA’s Golden Poppy Award for Poetry. She teaches at the University of San Francisco, was selected as a 2023 YBCA 100 Honoree, and is the inaugural poet laureate of El Cerrito, CA.
Archon / After, Ruth Ellen Kocher
Publisher: Omnidawn
Publication Date: November 6, 2024
Format: Paperback
In Ruth Ellen Kocher’s Archon / After, the archive is revealed as both a form of violence and of memory, of site and of event. As keeper of the archive, Kocher’s archon determines what pieces of the past may be preserved, housed, documented, ordered, and reviewed. Through these poems, the archon dives deep into memories and into the mysteries of daily life, and, in governance over the future, determines what will be and should be forgotten. The act of forgetting becomes archival violence, with the archon not only serving as the guardian of what remains in the archive but also as an eradicator who decides what is purged.
The imagistic and surreal language of this collection invites us to explore a non-logical terrain as we follow the protagonist into her darkest memories and find a path for our own journey of self-discovery.
Ruth Ellen Kocher is the author of eight previous books: godhouse; Third Voice, winner of the PEN Open Book Award; Ending in Planes; Goodbye Lyric: The Gigans and Lovely Gun; domina Un/blued, which won the Dorset Prize and the 2014 PEN/Open Book Award; One Girl Babylon, winner of the Green Rose Prize; When the Moon Knows You’re Wandering; and Desdemona’s Fire. She has been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Cave Canem Foundation, MacDowell, and Yaddo and is a contributing editor at Poets & Writers Magazine. She is a distinguished professor of English at the University of Colorado.
Omitting All That Is Usually Said, Robin Caton
Publisher: Omnidawn
Publication Date: November 6, 2024
Format: Paperback
In Omitting All That is Usually Said, Robin Caton explores the nature of light, form, language, meaning, and thought, alongside the complexity of their interwoven relationships. Caton interrogates the workings of the human mind and explores the way we integrate disparate perceptions. Caton questions whether we can be certain that things really exist and that all we experience isn’t simply a play of light and shadow. She considers how we live with all the limitations and emotional turmoil imbedded in humanity, while also maintaining a sense of something we call perfection. The poems of Omitting All That is Usually Said investigate how we might capture the depths of conflicting experiences and lived knowledge in ways that we can comprehend, and they marvel at how we find delight in all of it.
Robin Caton is the author of The Color of Dusk. Her poems have appeared in various journals including Generator, Columbia Poetry Review, and 6ix, and her short story “B, Longing” is included in the fabulist fiction collection, Paraspheres. Caton is a senior instructor at Dharma College in Berkeley, and she lives in Walnut Creek, California.
The Wayfarer, Cyrus Console
Publisher: Omnidawn
Publication Date: November 6, 2024
Format: Paperback
Taking its name from part of a lost triptych by Dutch painter Hieronymus Bosch, The Wayfarer documents its speaker’s attempt to forge a path through the world—both as a father and as an artist—and to adequately capture the experience of living through poetry. In language that melds the vernacular and the archival, these ballads recall moments of love as they arise in an everyday existence dominated by an awareness of political and ecological collapse. Caught between the terror of wandering and the awe of witnessing new minds as they acquire early words and memories, the poems hold out hope for the tenuous transmission of meaning between generations.
Cyrus Console is the author of Brief Under Water, The Odicy, and Romanian Notebook. He lives in Kansas City.
SUR, David Koehn
Publisher: Omnidawn
Publication Date: November 5, 2024
Format: Paperback
Drawing on a range of stylistic influences, the poetry of Sur takes on the essence of connection and the ways in which we continually develop meaning about others and to the natural world. With this collection, David Koehn paints a landscape where wilderness intertwines with human emotions and grows between ill-fitting interpersonal connections. Sur invites readers to step back and look critically at their world while remaining intimately intertwined with it. Throughout, imagery of nature—like a snake drinking from a stream, or a mountain god—blends with the emotional landscape of tumultuous relationships, exploring themes of wildness and an inevitable unraveling of secrets.
David Koehn is the author of Compendium, Scatterplot, and Twine, which won the Mary Sarton Poetry Prize. Koehn’s writing has appeared in chapbooks and literary magazines including The Rumpus, McSweeney’s, Kenyon Review, New England Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Rhino, Volt, Carolina Quarterly, Diagram, Greensboro Review, North American Review, Smartish Pace, Hotel Amerika, Gargoyle, Zyzzva, and Prairie Schooner.
Defensible Space/if a crow—, Ian Lockaby
Publisher: Omnidawn
Publication Date: November 5, 2024
Format: Paperback
Considering how we might detox from old languages, systems, and modes of life, Ian Lockaby’s poems seek out new forms of interconnectivity and possibility, finding the energy of emerging worlds along the edges of ruins. This collection poses questions of how to thrive in aftermaths, suggesting that attempts at absolute knowledge are less powerful than an embrace of the unknown. Throughout these poems, Lockaby uses crows as a model for dynamic adaption and creative entanglement with the world and with language, finding “defensible space” for new lyrical syntax amid shifts and desolation: “Everywhere a burning root system. Everywhere, a root fire crowing off the splayed tail feathers of a crow.”
Defensible Space/if a crow—looks towards a reintroduction of fire into wilds and wilds into our lives, taking the unknown of an “if” as the base from where we can build life.
Ian Lockaby is a poet, translator, and editor of the journal mercury firs. He is the author of the chapbook A Seam of Electricity, and his poetry has been published in journals including Fence, Bennington Review, Poetry Northwest, Ecotone, Volt, and Denver Quarterly. His translations of Latin American poetry have been published in Black Warrior Review, Circumference, Washington Square Review, and others. For many years he lived in and around Olympia, WA, where he worked on vegetable farms, and he now lives in New Orleans.
The Widow’s Crayon Box, Molly Peacock
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Publication Date: November 5, 2024
Format: Hardcover / eBook
After her husband’s death, Molly Peacock realized she was not living the received idea of a widow’s mauve existence but instead was experiencing life in all colors. These gorgeous poems—joyful, furious, mournful, bewildered, sexy, devastated, whimsical and above all, moving—composed in sonnet sequences and in open forms, designed in four movements (After, Before, When, and Afterglow)—illuminate both the role of the caregiver and the crystalline emotions one can experience after the death of a cherished partner. With her characteristic virtuosity, her fearless willingness to confront even the most difficult emotions, and always with buoyancy and zest, Peacock charts widowhood in the twenty-first century.
Molly Peacock is the author of eight collections of poetry, including The Analyst: Poems and Cornucopia: New and Selected Poems. She lives in Toronto, Canada.
Where will we Live If the House Burns Down, Allison Blevins
Publisher: Persea
Publication Date: November 5, 2024
Format: Paperback
Straddling genres—prose poetry, micro memoir, fairy tale, autofiction—Where Will We Live If the House Burns Down is first and foremost the story of a marriage. Borrowing elements from surrealist writers and artists, it explores the effects of chronic illness, disability, and a spouse’s gender transition. All of these issues swirl through the central marital relationship and the daily lives of its two lead characters, Sergeant and Grim—even as the book’s narrator, unreliable and unobjective, increasingly takes center stage. Reminiscent as much of contemporary fiction by writers like Sabrina Orah Mark and Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum as of poets or memoirists, this book is as engrossing as it is experimental, traversing complicated difficult domestic and emotional terrain by way of Allison Blevins’ vivid imagination.
Allison Blevins is a queer, disabled writer. She received her MA at Pittsburg State University and MFA at Queens University of Charlotte. She is a Lecturer for the Women’s Studies Program at Pittsburg State University. She is also a poetry and nonfiction mentor at Middle Tennessee State University. Her work has appeared in such journals as Brevity, Mid-American Review, the minnesota review, and Raleigh Review. She is the author of the hybrid collection Cataloguing Pain (YesYes Books, 2023), the lyric nonfiction collection Handbook for the Newly Disabled: A Lyric Memoir (BlazeVox, 2022), and the poetry collection Slowly/Suddenly (VA Press, 2021).
Burning Roses in My Garden, Taslima Nasrin
Publisher: India Penguin
Publication Date: November 5, 2024
Format: Paperback
Have I not, having kept a man for years, learnt that it’s/ like raising a snake?/ So many animals on this earth, why keep a man of all things?’ writes one of the world’s most celebrated writers, Taslima Nasrin, in her first-ever comprehensive collection of poetry translated from the original Bangla into English.
The poems get to the heart of being the other in exile, justifying one’s place in a terrifying world. They praise the comfort and critique the cruelty of a loved one. In these are loneliness, sorrow, and at times, exaltation.
Relying almost entirely upon the free verse form, these poems carry a diction which is at once both gentle and fierce, revealing the experiences of one woman while defining the existence of so many generations of women throughout time, and around the world.
Living in exile, Taslima Nasrin is a writer and a secular humanist who has been subjected to forced banishment and multiple fatwas. Her writings have been deemed controversial time and again because of their unflinching preoccupation with gender, community and identity. Her widely celebrated books include Lajja, Split: A Life, My Girlhood, Exile and French Lover and others.
Jesse Waters is director, Bowers Writers House, Elizabethtown College, Pennsylvania. His poetry as well as fiction and non-fiction work have been nominated for multiple Pushcart Prizes and have appeared nationally and internationally in such journals as 88, The Adirondack Review,Coal Hill Review, The Cortland Review, Cimarron Review, Iowa Review, River Styx, Slide, Story Quarterly, Southeast Review, Sycamore Review. His books include Human Resources as well as So Let Me Get This Straight.
Still City, Oksana Maksymchuk
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Publication Date: November 5, 2024
Format: Paperback
The poems in Oksana Maksymchuk’s debut English-language collection meditate on the changing sense of reality, temporality, mortality, and intimacy in the face of a catastrophic event. While some of the poems were composed in the months preceding the full-scale invasion of the poet’s homeland, others emerged in its wake. Navigating between a chronicle, a chorus, and a collage, Still City reflects the lived experiences of liminality, offering different perspectives on the war and its aftermath. The collection engages a wide range of sources, including social media posts, the news reports, witness accounts, recorded oral histories, photographs, drone video footage, intercepted communication, and official documents, making sense of the transformations that war affects in individuals, families, and communities. Now ecstatic, now cathartic, these poems shine a light on survival, mourning, and hope through moments of terror and awe.
Oksana Maksymchuk is a bilingual Ukrainian American poet, scholar, and translator. She is the author of poetry collections Xenia and Lovy in the Ukrainian. She coedited Words for War: New Poems from Ukraine, an anthology of contemporary poetry, and has published a few single-author volumes of translations. Born and raised in Lviv, Ukraine in 1982, she has also lived in Chicago, Philadelphia, Budapest, Berlin, Warsaw, and Fayetteville, Arkansas. She currently teaches at the University of Chicago.
About Time, Neil Hilborn
Publisher: Button Poetry
Publication Date: November 5, 2024
Format: Paperback / eBook
Neil Hilborn returns with the poignant and profound collection About Time. Balancing between devastation and perseverance, About Time shares the struggle to maintain mental health during the recent global crises.
With his distinctly conversational tone and dark humor, Hilborn breaks down the cycle of mental illness–small improvements, setbacks, and the process of recovery. This collection fights against itself as the poems try to find a place for hope, love, and goodness in a lonely, terrifying world–ultimately, inspiring belief in and connection to all the small joys that we can find.
Fans new and old will be stunned by Hilborn’s third collection. Continuing in the legacy of his previous works, About Time is hot soup for the troubled soul and absolutely cannot be missed.
Neil Hilborn is a best-selling author and, with over 150 million views to his credit, he is the most-watched poet ever. He has performed in 41 states and 8 countries, and in 2019 alone he drove coast to coast five times while on tour. His preferred stage entrance music is “Born to Run” by Bruce Springsteen, during which he walks very slowly. In addition to touring and writing he runs workshops on craft, performance, and how to apologize for ignoring texts. He and his wife live on a hobby farm outside Chapel Hill, North Carolina, where they adopt too many animals.
The Island in the Sound, Niall Campbell
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
Publication Date: November 5, 2024
Format: Paperback
In this collection, mirroring the islands’ precarious future, we uncover strange links to Rome falling, Lindisfarne, and the temporary heaven found in Alamut, North Iran. The waters that churn around the islands in the poems bring strange things to their shores: saints, remnants of various types of havens, crab-boxes, and figures from the working-class lives of Uist. It is a poetry collection attuned to the growing sense that something is changing around us and there never will be a going back. These islands in the sound are what’s left: shaped, crafted, riven by the strange tuneful sea they sprang from.
Niall Campbell was born in 1984 on the island of South Uist, one of the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. He received an Eric Gregory Award in 2011 and an Arvon-Jerwood Mentorship in 2013, and won the Poetry London Competition in 2013. His first book-length collection, Moontide (Bloodaxe Books, 2014), won what was then Britain’s biggest poetry prize, the £20,000 Edwin Morgan Poetry Award, as well as the Saltire First Book of the Year Award; it was also shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, the Fenton Aldeburgh First Collection Prize and the Michael Murphy Memorial Prize, and is a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. First Nights: poems, a selection from Moontide with additional new poems, was published by Princeton University Press in the US in 2016. His second book-length collection, Noctuary (Bloodaxe Books, 2019), was shortlisted for the 2019 Forward Prize for Best Collection. He wrote the libretto for Draught, an opera by Anna Appleby, which was performed by the BBC Philharmonic in 2022. He now lives in Fife, Scotland.
Translation of the Route: Traducción de la ruta, Laura Wittner, Juana Adcock (Tr.)
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
Publication Date: November 5, 2024
Format: Paperback / eBook
The ‘things’ of life – bus journeys, potted plants, thunder at night, coffee-stained books, fleeting conversations and the rest – are made full through Wittner’s ability to pinpoint in them the consequential, and even the metaphysical, manipulating language with a translator’s delicate skill. There are funny, moving pen-portraits of Wittner’s two children, suddenly grown, as well as bell-clear descriptions of the task of writing. For this is also a collection about language itself – as an interface, as a surface, and as vital communication.
Translation of the Route is Laura Wittner’s eleventh collection. The poems in this dual language Spanish-English edition, Wittner’s first collection available in English translation, have been translated by the Mexican-Scottish bilingual poet and translator Juana Adcock, acclaimed author of Manca and Split.
Laura Wittner is an award-winning poet and translator from Argentina. Her books of poetry include El pasillo del tren (1996), Los cosacos (1998), Las últimas mudanzas (2001), La tomadora de café (2005), Lluvias (2009), Balbuceos en una misma dirección (2011), La altura (2016), Lugares donde una no está (2017) and Traducción de la ruta (2020). She has also published more than 20 books for children, most recently Cual para tal (2022), ¿Y comieron perdices? (2023) and Se pide un deseo (2023). Translation of the Route, Juana Adcock’s translation of Traducción de la ruta is published by the Poetry Translation Centre with Bloodaxe Books in a dual language Spanish-English edition in 2024. As a literary translator Wittner has translated books by Leonard Cohen, David Markson, M. John Harrison, Cynan Jones, Claire-Louise Bennett, Katherine Mansfield and James Schuyler, among many others. She lives in Buenos Aires.
Juana Adcock is a Mexican poet, translator and editor based in Scotland. She is the author of Manca (Tierra Adentro, 2014), Vestigial (Stewed Rhubarb, 2022) and Split (Blue Diode, 2019), which was a Poetry Book Society Choice and was included in the Guardian’s Best Poetry of 2019. She is co-editor of the anthology of poetry by Latin American women Temporary Archives (Arc Publications, 2022), and her translation of the Mè’phàà poet Hubert Matiúwàa’s The Dogs Dreamt (Flipped Eye, 2023) received a PEN Translates award.
The Last Song of the World, Joseph Fasano
Publisher: BOA Editions Ltd.
Publication Date: November 5, 2024
Format: Paperback / eBook
Joseph Fasano’s The Last Song of the World delves into the chaos of the modern world, and searches for resilience in the face of environmental and societal devastation. Dripping with images of ancient ruins and mythological figures, these poems serve as vignettes of fatherhood, love, and desire against the backdrop of apocalyptic events.
Through the documentation of ongoing violence and natural phenomena, Fasano depicts the ever-present anxieties of parenting with concision and compassion. The Last Song of the World is a love letter to the world that could be—a world as tender as it is bold, as loving as it is brutal, as beautiful as it is horrendous.
Joseph Fasano is a poet, novelist, and songwriter. His books include The Last Song of the World (2024), The Swallows of Lunetto (2022), The Dark Heart of Every Wild Thing (2020), The Crossing (2018), Vincent (2015), Inheritance (2014), and Fugue for Other Hands (2013). His honors include the Cider Press Review Book Award, the Rattle Poetry Prize, eight Pushcart Prize nominations, and a nomination for the Poets’ Prize, “awarded annually for the best book of verse published by a living American poet two years prior to the award year.” His book The Magic Words (TarcherPerigee, 2024), a collection of poetry prompts and exercises, helps people of all ages unlock their creativity. His writing has been widely translated and anthologized, most recently in The Forward Book of Poetry 2022 (Faber and Faber).
A Kiss for the Absolute: Selected Poems of Shuzo Takiguchi, Mary Jo Bang (tr.), Yuki Tanaka (tr.)
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication Date: November 5, 2024
Format: Hardcover / Paperback / eBook
In 1923, Shuzo Takiguchi’s first year at Tokyo’s Keio University was cut short by the Great Kanto Earthquake, which nearly destroyed the Japanese capital. When he returned to school two years later, he was hit by a second earthquake—French Surrealism. Takiguchi (1903–1979) began to write surrealist poems, translate surrealist writers, curate exhibitions of surrealist art, write art criticism, and, later, paint, helping introduce Surrealism to Japan. He eventually became a major Japanese artistic and cultural figure whose collected works number fourteen volumes. In A Kiss for the Absolute, Mary Jo Bang, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, and her fellow poet and translator Yuki Tanaka present the first collection in English of Takiguchi’s ingenious, playful, and erotic poems, complete with an introduction and the original Japanese texts on facing pages. Takiguchi’s obvious interest in style is perfectly wed to his daredevil rhetorical antics. His poems read as if they could have been written today, yet they are so original that they couldn’t have been written by anyone else. Bang and Tanaka’s skillful, colloquial translations offer English readers a long-overdue introduction to this important poet.
Mary Jo Bang is the author of nine books of poems, including A Film in Which I Play Everyone and Elegy, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. She has published translations of Dante and Matthias Göritz and is a professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis. Yuki Tanaka was born and raised in Japan and teaches at Hosei University in Tokyo. His debut poetry collection, Chronicle of Drifting, is forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press. He received an MFA from the University of Texas at Austin and a PhD in English from Washington University in St. Louis.
Kingfisher Blues, Erik Reece
Publisher: Fireside Industries
Publication Date: November 5, 2024
Format: Hardcover / Paperback / eBook
At the intersection of alcoholism and recovery, Kingfisher Blues brings an unflinching eye and raw wit to one man’s battle with addiction. Alternating between meditations on the natural world and gritty snapshots of the county jail, rehab center, and people who occupy these spaces with him—from strippers to soldiers—Reece ruminates on the thin line between life and death. Evocative and unfiltered, Kingfisher Blues weaves his experiences of Montana prairies, Kentucky woods, and Cumberland creeks into stories shared with neighbors, ancestors, former friends, and enduring partners.
These intensely personal yet universal poems boldly confront demons and deities while remaining skeptical about either’s existence. By conveying the despair—and serenity—found in the loneliness of the woods and seeking self-acceptance in the face of ugly truths, this collection offers a visceral encounter with the intertwined forces of nature, human struggle, and redemption.
Erik Reece is the author of six books of nonfiction, including Clear Creek, Utopia Drive, and Lost Mountain, which won Columbia University’s John B. Oakes Award for Distinguished Environmental Journalism and the Sierra Club’s David R. Brower Award for Excellence in Environmental Writing. His work has appeared in Harper’s, the Oxford American, the Atlantic, Orion, and other publications. His two earlier collections of poetry, A Short History of the Present and Animals at Full Moon, were published by Larkspur Press. He teaches writing and literature at the University of Kentucky and is the founder of Kentucky Writers and Artists for Reforestation.
Moonful, BeeLyn Naihiwet
Publisher: Finishing Line Press
Publication Date: November 8, 2024
Format: Paperback
Moonful is a worldview, a sacred language, a gathering of the lost and the enduring, a reckoning, and a collection of poems that challenges injustice, centers tomorrow, and celebrates love. Whether exploring motherhood as the birth of a mother, making the case for ghosts of victim-blaming, or grieving for a homeland and a people trapped in a war zone, Moonful bears compelling, clear-eyed and courageous witness.
BeeLyn Naihiwet is a Seattle-based Black poet from Tigray. She is passionate about her work as a mental health therapist, social justice, motherhood, and the moon. Moonful is her second book of poetry. Her debut poetry collection, Plenty, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2021.
Wayfarers, Jane Medved
Publisher: Grid Books
Publication Date: November 5, 2024
Format: Paperback
Written in the wake of the sudden disappearance of her nephew, Jane Medved’ s award-winning Wayfarers tells of the struggle to process loss without any physical anchor. Threaded through these poems are clues to navigating our time on earth, as left for us by the Jewish Sages: poems responding to midrash, “ mishna,” and daily prayers. Part memoir, part spiritual exploration, Wayfarers charts the path from pre-birth, to life in the physical universe, to the departure of the spirit from the body— a path all human beings traverse.
Jane Medved is the author of Deep Calls to Deep (winner of the Many Voices Project, New Rivers Press) and the chapbook Olam, Shana, Nefesh (Finishing Line Press). Recent essays and poems have appeared or are upcoming in The Laurel Review, Mason Street, Ruminate, The North American Review, and The Normal School. Her awards include winner of the 2021 RHINO translation prize and the 2021 Janet B. McCabe Poetry Prize – Honorable Mention. She is the poetry editor of the Ilanot Review, and a visiting lecturer in the Graduate Creative Writing Program at Bar Ilan University, Tel Aviv.
Objects in Mirror, N.W. Downs
Publisher: Querencia Press
Publication Date: November 8, 2024
Format: Paperback
Hemmed in by highways going nowhere and the men who disappear down them, Objects in Mirror builds an American body out of country music and familial grief. In these poems the dog dies, then dies again, the car un-crashes itself, and familiar radio noises lure brothers away from one another and into the restless west.
Downs (he/him) is a New England native living in Chicago. Through fiction, poetry, and painting he focuses on American scenery, the biblical mythologies that inform masculinity, and the trans body’s relationship to traditional narratives. He is the author of Where the Men Come From through Fifth Wheel Press and Objects in Mirror through Querencia Press.
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Contents
PCR is calling for submissions of original poetry for the first time between Nov. 1 and Dec. 15. We’re also opening to submissions of poem excerpts from full-length collections. Read this post for details!
Check out new poetry books for the week of 11/5 from Querencia Press, Grid Books, Finishing Line Press, Fireside Industries, Princeton University Press, BOA Editions Ltd, Bloodaxe Books, Button Poetry, University of Pittsburgh Press, Persea, W. W. Norton and Omnidawn.
Chapbook Poem: copper by nat raum
Read the featured Chapbook Poem of the Month for November 2024, “copper” from salt box by nat raum, along with a few words from the poet.
Poetry Chapbooks (October 2024)
Check out our round-up of poetry chapbooks published in October 2024 by Two Sylvias Press, Yavanika Press, The Poetry Box, Variant Lit, Kith Books, Newfound, Black Lawrence Press, Diode Editions, Nine Syllables Press, Querencia Press, Bottlecap Press and Finishing Line Press.
Check out new poetry books for the week of 11/12 from Querencia Press, CavanKerry Press, Talonbooks, Finishing Line Press, Black Ocean, University of Calgary Press and University of Wisconsin Press.
Check out new poetry books for the week of 11/19 from Copper Canyon Press. Random House, Winter Editions, Books and Finishing Line Press.
Check out new poetry books for the week of 11/26 from Nightboat Books, Alice James Books, NYRB Poets, Unicorn Publishing Group and Finishing Line Press.
Check out new poetry titles for December 2024 from Green Linden Press, After Hours Editions, White Stag Publishing, Anvil Press, Eulalia Books, Empty Bowl, The Song Cave, Variant Literature, University of Nevada Press, LSU Press, Bloodaxe Books and Tupelo Press.
Poetry Chapbooks (November 2024)
Check out our round-up of poetry chapbooks published in November 2024 by Kith Books, Kernpunkt Press, Finishing Line Press and Bottlecap Press.
Chapbook Poem: After Tragedy by Caiti Quatmann
Read the featured Chapbook Poem of the Month for December 2024, “After Tragedy” from Yoke by Caiti Quatmann, along with a few words from the poet.
Review: The Two Hearts Inside Us by Jill R. Burkey
“Jill R. Burkey dares to question in her chapbook, The Two Hearts Inside Us, because ‘questions breed possibility.'” Read the full chapbook review by new PCR contributor, Shelli Rottschafer.