“Still life with wind and breadcrumbs.” That’s one line of verse from Lenore Marshall winner EAMON GRENNAN’s Matter of Fact (Graywolf, June 1), which looks to the natural world as a measure of what is real and what is not. KATIE FORD’s Colosseum (Graywolf, June 1) evokes something different: New Orleans before and after the fury of Katrina. ELIZABETH SPIRES’s The Wave-Maker (Norton, July 28) doesn’t lash out like that storm, instead offering quietly contemplative poems on the search for self.
Winner of a Whiting Writers’ Award and a passel of fellowships, D. NURKSE also writes widely on human rights, an issue addressed in biblical terms in The Border Kingdom (Knopf, August 8). Finally, look for the return of W.S. MERWIN’s Spanish Ballads (Copper Canyon, July 1), a translation inspired by advice from Ezra Pound. The works translated date from the medieval era to the 20th century, and the entire collection was originally published in 1961 and dedicated to Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath.
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