Attention Span 2012 | Philip Metres

In no particular order, ten recent books of poems that I’ve mulled over more than once (and, for some, reviewed elsewhere):

Douglas Kearney | The Black Automaton | Fence | 2009

Khaled Mattawa | Tocqueville | New Issues | 2010

Morgan Lucas Schuldt | as vanish, unespecially | Flying Guillotine | 2012

Anna Moschovakis | You and Three Others Are Approaching a Lake | Coffee House | 2011

Naomi Shihab Nye | Transfer | BOA | 2011

Nick Flynn | The Captain Asks for a Show of Hands | Graywolf | 2010

Joseph Harrington | Things Come On | Wesleyan | 2011

Kevin Prufer | In a Beautiful Country | Four Way | 2011

Arthur Rimbaud, trans. John Ashbery | Illuminations | Norton | 2011

C.D. Wright | One with Others | Copper Canyon | 2011

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Philip Metres’s recent books include abu ghraib arias (2011), which won the 2012 Arab American Book Award for poetry, To See the Earth (Cleveland State, 2008), and Behind the Lines: War Resistance Poetry on the American Homefront, since 1941 (Iowa, 2007).

Philip Metres’s contributions to Attention Span for 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008. Back to 2012 directory.