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Gilgamesh: A New Verse Translation by Simon Armitage
Gilgamesh: A New Verse Translation by Simon Armitage
Gilgamesh: A New Verse Translation By Simon Armitage Liveright. 2026. Reviewed by Eric Bies There are two camps when it comes to literary translation. The first, favoring meticulousness and precisi…
You’ve Heard This One Before by Karmelo C. Iribarren
You’ve Heard This One Before by Karmelo C. Iribarren
You’ve Heard This One Before By Karmelo C. Iribarren Translated by John R. Sesgo World Poetry. 2026. Reviewed by Eric Bies Hand a barfly a ballpoint and a napkin, and you might just end up wi…
Renaissance by Haris Vlavianos
Renaissance by Haris Vlavianos
Renaissance By Haris Vlavianos Translated by Patricia Felisa Barbeito World Poetry. 2026. Reviewed by Eric Bies The thirty-six poems that make up Haris Vlavianos’ Renaissance are more than poems, a…
What’s New in Translation: February 2026
What’s New in Translation: February 2026
New Cemetery: Poems by Simon Armitage
New Cemetery: Poems by Simon Armitage
Reviewed by Eric Bies
Very Collected Poems by Ron Padgett
Very Collected Poems by Ron Padgett
Very Collected Poems By Ron Padgett Coffee House Press. 2025. Reviewed by Eric Bies Ron Padgett’s been busy. In the dozen years since the publication of his Collected Poems, America’s silliest livi…
Earthly: Selected Poems by Jean Follain
Earthly: Selected Poems by Jean Follain
The Book of Rain by Abū Zayd Al-Anṣāri
The Book of Rain by Abū Zayd Al-Anṣāri
Like Love: Essays and Conversations by Maggie Nelson
Like Love: Essays and Conversations by Maggie Nelson
Fifty Poems by Rainer Maria Rilke
Fifty Poems by Rainer Maria Rilke
Patchwork by Tom Comitta
Patchwork by Tom Comitta
What’s New in Translation: August 2025
What’s New in Translation: August 2025
Apotheosis of Music by Witold Wirpsza
Apotheosis of Music by Witold Wirpsza
Horror of Life: The Suicide Letters of Charles Baudelaire
Horror of Life: The Suicide Letters of Charles Baudelaire
Flower by Ed Atkins
Flower by Ed Atkins
Perfection by Vincenzo Latronico
Perfection by Vincenzo Latronico
Perspective(s) by Laurent Binet
Perspective(s) by Laurent Binet
On the Calculation of Volume (Book I) by Solvej Balle
On the Calculation of Volume (Book I) by Solvej Balle
What’s New In Translation: April 2025
What’s New In Translation: April 2025
Over to You: Letters Between a Father and Son by John Berger and Yves Berger
Over to You: Letters Between a Father and Son by John Berger and Yves Berger
Pink Dust by Ron Padgett
Pink Dust by Ron Padgett
At the Louvre: Poems by 100 Contemporary World Poets
At the Louvre: Poems by 100 Contemporary World Poets
Set Change by Yuri Andrukhovych
Set Change by Yuri Andrukhovych
An Incomplete Catalog of Disappearance by Diana Oropeza
An Incomplete Catalog of Disappearance by Diana Oropeza
New and Collected Hell by Shane McCrae
New and Collected Hell by Shane McCrae
Sleepers Awake by Oli Hazzard
Sleepers Awake by Oli Hazzard
Foxglovewise by Ange Mlinko
Foxglovewise by Ange Mlinko
The Suicides by Antonio di Benedetto
The Suicides by Antonio di Benedetto
Book of Exercises II by George Seferis
Book of Exercises II by George Seferis
Fires Seen from Space by Betsy Fagin
Fires Seen from Space by Betsy Fagin
Day Lasts Forever by Mario dell'Arco
Day Lasts Forever by Mario dell'Arco
Far District by Ishion Hutchinson
Far District by Ishion Hutchinson
Joy in Service on Rue Tagore by Paul Muldoon
Joy in Service on Rue Tagore by Paul Muldoon
Mojave Ghost by Forest Gander
Mojave Ghost by Forest Gander
The Life of Tu Fu by Eliot Weinberger
The Life of Tu Fu by Eliot Weinberger
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Interview with Tom Comitta
Interview with Tom Comitta
Interview with Lee Klein
Interview with Lee Klein
The situation seemed ripe for mining a precious metal known as “poignancy,” the urgency of the [writers'] strong desires to fulfill their ambitions and the wrenching back of that desire in the form of rejection.
Interview with Steve Donoghue
Interview with Steve Donoghue
My Father is Full of Stories
My Father is Full of Stories
by Eric Bies
So Much Depends Upon So Much
So Much Depends Upon So Much
by Eric Bies
Pausing
Pausing
The Palace and the Water Lily
The Palace and the Water Lily
Too Many Millets
Too Many Millets
by Eric Bies
Geoffrey Chaucer's Birds
Geoffrey Chaucer's Birds
A Few Dreams
A Few Dreams
by Eric BiesIn 1895, Ernest Hartley Coleridge published a volume of selections from his grandfather’s notebooks. Anima Poetae, the first such selection to be
A Raven and a Writing Desk
A Raven and a Writing Desk
Multiplication Table
Multiplication Table
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