by Michael Quinn | Jan 31, 2021One Illuminated Letter of Beingby Donald PlattRed Mountain Press, 2020 One Illuminated Letter of Being, Donald Platt’s new collection of thirty-two heart-wrenching poems, is oriented around the loss of his mother—itself a disorienting experience, for anyone—that...
by Anne Graue | Jan 4, 2021Obitby Victoria ChangCopper Canyon Press, 2020 Victoria Chang’s collection, Obit, seems to have anticipated the prolonged good-byes of 2020. In it, Chang says good-bye to loved ones, feelings, objects—everything we feel and know, who we were and where we’re...
by Iris Jamahl Dunkle | Jan 3, 2021Asylum: A personal, historical, natural inquiry in 103 lyric sectionsby Jill BialoskyKnopf, 2020 This stunning book-length poem, broken up into 103 sections, examines the grief and trauma associated with losing a young sister from suicide. Threaded also through these...