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New Books - 04/06
The Three Way Tavern: Selected Poems, by Ko Un ($16.95, Univ. of California) Beautiful, clear poems in translation by this widely praised contemporary Korean poet -- at once simple, touching, and magically lively.
Not For Specialists: New & Selected Poems by W.D. Snodgrass ($21.95 pb. / $27.95 hc., BOA) A generous collection reaching from Snodgrass's Pulitzer Prize-winning first book, Heart's Needle, to nearly fifty pages of new poems, several concerned with contemporary politics.
Green Squall, by Jay Hopler ($16, Yale) Louise Gluck's choice for the current Yale Younger Poets Prize, Mr. Hopler writes with refreshing passion, crispness, intensity, and wit. One can see a kindred spirit to Ms.Gluck in Mr. Hopler's work.
Hapax, by A.E. Stallings ($14.95, Triquarterly) Ms. Stallings' highly formal poetry, rich in rhyme and meter, is born of the modern world (jet lag, ultrasound, film noir) but also carries an echo of the ancient, perhaps partially because, though she was raised in Athens, Georgia, she now lives
in Athens, Greece.
Saving Daylight, by Jim Harrison ($22, Copper Canyon) These poems are honest, direct, Mr. Harrison's trademark; rough, with humor and elegance. Four of his poems here are translated into Spanish: "For years I've believed the world should speak Spanish."
Astoria, by Malena Morling ($14, Univ. of Pittsburgh) Her poems are grounded but quick to rise on original imagery. The world is not left behind, just seen differently, as with the man in a suit running up his driveway and carrying two empty garbage cans, "his galvanized steel wings."
Wind In A Box, by Terrance Hayes ($17, Penguin) Poems that approach race and culture front on, with enviable grace, grit, and skill. Whether he is writing lyrically, autobiographically, or in persona, Mr. Hayes' poetry is always forceful. When describing a photograph of a lynched mother and son, he compares them to "tassels on a drawn curtain."
Some Notes on My Programming, by Anselm Berrigan ($15, Edge) A collection of funny, sad, fractured poems from this poet out of the experimental tradition -- "I am writing this / inside the belly of an alligator // withstanding a keeper's caress."
Selected Poems: 1931-2004, by Czeslaw Milosz ($24.95, Ecco) Robert Hass, long-time friend of the Nobel Prize-winning Polish poet, has selected from work spanning over 70 years, drawing from Milosz's New and Collected Poems, and A Second Space (a newly revised translation of one poem is also included).
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