Thirty Essential Poetry Titles for Spring 2013

摘要

"What beauty, what bruise," says Bar-Nadav in the title poem, summing up her gorgeous, tough-minded poetry. As does the title of another poem, "To Ache Is Human." Bar-Nadav explores our physical being in the world and relationships with family and others in language that's visceral without violence, frank without getting ugly. A Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize winner that will be a luscious find for many readers.-BH Pablo Neruda Prize winner Beatty's persona wears her mother like a dress ("her neck a blue V7 for her blue vagina that birthed six babies"), tries to buy a gun off a man who has "hurt people," and moodily declares that there is "nothing as lonely as/ a crane not working." In short, she cannily captures a desolate American landscape, striking the pose of a skate punk kickflipping his board: "brilliantly indestructible."