What other poetry books have you been reading lately?
On my desk at the moment is People You May Know (Saturnalia Books) by Michael Robins, which is stunningly beautiful and has a perfect balance of sound and syntax. I’m also reading Sawako Nakayasu’s Some Girls Walk into the Country They Are From (Wave Books), which I love for its intensity and its use of foreign language—as someone who’s been studying Japanese for many years (and is still terrible), I delight in poems like “Laid Out Along the Road Like Attenuant Parts” that feel both familiar and foreign. I’m about to start Karma Poems (Tolsun Books) by Yin Lichuan and translated from the Chinese by Fiona Sze-Lorrain, which seems to promise compression, shock, and an honest gaze.
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