April 2017
The “April 2017” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on March 31, 2017.
Critics Page
Reviews of relatively recent works of poetry and poetics, mostly by poets.
–Philippe Soupault, Lost Profiles: Memoirs of Cubism, Dada, and Surrealism
– By Paul AusterAndrew Dodds, I, Sparkie
– By Derek BeaulieuErín Moure, My Beloved Wager: Essays from a Writing Practice
– By Caroline BergvallDaniil Kharms, Russian Absurd: Selected Writings
– By Charles BernsteinMoez Surani, ةيلمع Operación Opération Operation 行 动 Oперация
– By Christian BökTom Raworth, As When
– By Miles ChampionDavid Antin, i never knew what time it was
– By Cecilia CorriganAdam Fitzgerald, George Washington: Poems
– By Samuel R. DelanyGavin Selerie, Hariot Double
– By Johanna DruckerTracie Morris, handholding: 5 kinds
– By Craig DworkinJ. H. Prynne, The White Stones
– By Peter GizziTonya M. Foster, A Swarm of Bees in High Court
– By Erica HuntAbdellatif Laâbi, In Praise of Defeat: Selected Poems
– By Pierre JorisSimone White, Of Being Dispersed
– By Douglas KearneyBarbara Guest, The Collected Poems of Barbara Guest
– By Kyoo LeeSawako Nakayasu, The Ants
– By Tan LinKeith Waldrop, Selected Poems
– By Mark McMorrisÉdgar J. Ulloa Luján, Move that River to the Sea
– By Tracie MorrisWill Alexander, “Live at the Roosevelt Room,” Detroit, August 24, 2016
– By Julie Ezelle PattonMartin Mueller, The Iliad
– By Bob PerelmanMia You, I, too, Dislike It
– By Lisa RobertsonCat Painters: An Anthology of Contemporary Serbian Poetry
– By Jerome RothenbergAlejandro Miguel Justino Crawford, Egress
– By Danny SnelsonRenee Gladman, Calamities
– By Juliana SpahrTed Greenwald, The Age of Reasons & Common Sense
– By Stacy SzymaszekM. NourbeSe Philip, She Tries Her Tongue, Her Silence Softly Breaks
– By Elizabeth WillisSusan Howe, Spontaneous Particulars: The Telepathy of the Archives
– By Mia You