Posts Tagged ‘Gustaf Sobin’
Attention Span 2010 – G.C. Waldrep
Gustaf Sobin | Collected Poems | Talisman | 2010
The poetry book of the year, for me. A gorgeous summation of Sobin’s lyric achievement. Should be on every American poet’s bookshelf.
Anne Carson | NOX | New Directions | 2010
Lisa Robertson | R’s Boat | California | 2010
Andrew Joron | The Sound Mirror | Flood | 2009
He really has the best ear of any poet I know writing in English. Trance Archive (City Lights, 2010) is also worth any reader’s time who isn’t already following Joron’s work.
Evelyn Reilly | Styrofoam | Roof | 2009
Sandy Florian | Prelude to Air from Water | Elixir | 2010
In my opinion, and for what little comparisons may be worth, Florian is the most original practioner of the Anglophone prose poem in our moment. Her other 2010 title is Of Wonderland & Waste, from Sidebrow.
Yang Lian, trans. Brian Holton | Riding Pisces | Shearsman | 2008
A major contemporary Chinese poet who has not yet found his American audience. He’s better served in Britain, where his other recent collections include Concentric Circles (2006) and Lee Valley Poems (2010).
Julie Carr | 100 Notes on Violence | Ahsahta | 2010
Keith Waldrop | Several Gravities | Siglio | 2009
The perfect companion to his ever-so-slightly-earlier volume Transcendental Studies, which won the National Book Award. The collages are wonderful, and the selection of his lyric work is judicious.
Jack Collom & Lyn Hejinian | Situations, Sings | Adventures in Poetry | 2008
Mahmoud Darwish, trans. Fady Joudah | If I Were Another | FSG | 2009
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Also rereading pretty much all of Leslie Scalapino and Fanny Howe this summer—at least the lyric work—alongside some Alice Notley I’d missed hitherto. Waiting for some new/fresh time to read J. Michael Martinez’s Heredities, which looks fantastic, and the new translation of Raul Zurita’s Purgatorio from California.
More G.C. Waldrep here. Waldrep’s Attention Span for 2009, 2008, 2006, 2004. Back to directory.
Third Factory/Notes to Poetry 
Attention Span 2011 | Leonard Schwartz
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Raul Zurita, trans. William Rowe | Inri | Marick | 2009
This extraordinary Chilean poet is now more fully available to English language readers.
Raul Zurita, trans. Anna Deeny | Purgatory | California | 2010
Zurita’s poetry is both Orphic and politically powerful at once.
Maged Zaher | Portrait of the Poet As An Engineer | Pressed Wafer | 2009
The contemporary writer the furthest inside and the most outside the English language as we know it….
Gustaf Sobin | Collected Poems | Talisman | 2010
This book brings a life-work together… “A national treasure,” just as Rain Taxi wrote.
Robert Duncan | The H.D. Book | California | 2011
Finally!
Evie Shockley | The New Black | Wesleyan | 2011
These poems prove that poetry can think.
Brenda Iijima, ed. | (Eco (Lang) (Uage (Reader)) | Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs / Nightboat | 2010
This anthology is crucial reading for those seeking out a more complicated relationship to “nature” than “nature poetry” would otherwise offer.
Jonathon Stalling | Grotto Heaven | Chax | 2010
A poetry that works its way into the space between the languages English and Chinese as no one has been able to manage before….
Susan Gevirtz | Aeordome Orion & Starry Messanger | Kelsey Street | 2010
Technique sharpens the imagination into a new relationship to the sky, which is and is not a limit.
John Taggart | Is Music | Copper Canyon | 2010
Taggart’s Selected allows us to listen to this poetry deeply. Does anyone have a better ear than John Taggart?
Kiki Smith and Leslie Scalapino | The Animal Is In The World Like Water In Water | Granary
This exquisitely produced book, a collaboration between artist Smith and poet Scalapino, shocks and delights. Smith’s drawings and Scalapino’s poems from the book are reproduced in part in How Phenomena Appear to Unfold, 2011, from Litmus Press—but the Granary ultra-suede edition is very special and gets you the whole work.
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Leonard Schwartz’s latest book will be At Element, forthcoming in November 2011 from Talisman House. Schwartz’s Attention Span for 2009, 2006. Back to 2011 directory.
Written by Steve Evans
September 14, 2011 at 10:30 am
Posted in Attention Span 2011, Commented List
Tagged with Anna Deeny, Brenda Iijima, Evie Shockley, Gustaf Sobin, John Taggart, Jonathon Stalling, Kiki Smith, Leslie Scalapino, Maged Zaher, Raul Zurita, Robert Duncan, Susan Gevirtz, William Rowe