The Brooklyn Rail

Critics Page

• Reviews of relatively recent works of poetry and poetics, mostly by poets.

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  edited by Charles Bernstein

• Philippe Soupault, Lost Profiles: Memoirs of Cubism, Dada, and Surrealism

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  By Paul Auster

• Andrew Dodds, I, Sparkie

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  By Derek Beaulieu

• Erín Moure, My Beloved Wager: Essays from a Writing Practice

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  By Caroline Bergvall

• Daniil Kharms, Russian Absurd: Selected Writings

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  By Charles Bernstein

• Moez Surani, ةيلمع Operación Opération Operation 行 动 Oперация

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  By Christian Bök

• Tom Raworth, As When

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  By Miles Champion

• David Antin, i never knew what time it was

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  By Cecilia Corrigan

• Adam Fitzgerald, George Washington: Poems

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  By Samuel R. Delany

• Gavin Selerie, Hariot Double

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  By Johanna Drucker

• Tracie Morris, handholding: 5 kinds

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  By Craig Dworkin

• J. H. Prynne, The White Stones

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  By Peter Gizzi

• Tonya M. Foster, A Swarm of Bees in High Court

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  By Erica Hunt

• Abdellatif Laâbi, In Praise of Defeat: Selected Poems

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  By Pierre Joris

• Simone White, Of Being Dispersed

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  By Douglas Kearney

• Barbara Guest, The Collected Poems of Barbara Guest

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  By Kyoo Lee

• Sawako Nakayasu, The Ants

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  By Tan Lin

• Keith Waldrop, Selected Poems

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  By Mark McMorris

• Édgar J. Ulloa Luján, Move that River to the Sea

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  By Tracie Morris

• Will Alexander, “Live at the Roosevelt Room,” Detroit, August 24, 2016

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  By Julie Ezelle Patton

• Martin Mueller, The Iliad

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  By Bob Perelman

• Mia You, I, too, Dislike It

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  By Lisa Robertson

• Cat Painters: An Anthology of Contemporary Serbian Poetry

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  By Jerome Rothenberg

• Alejandro Miguel Justino Crawford, Egress

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  By Danny Snelson

• Renee Gladman, Calamities

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  By Juliana Spahr

• Ted Greenwald, The Age of Reasons & Common Sense

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  By Stacy Szymaszek

• M. NourbeSe Philip, She Tries Her Tongue, Her Silence Softly Breaks

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  By Elizabeth Willis

• Susan Howe, Spontaneous Particulars: The Telepathy of the Archives

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  By Mia You