... Poetry , have chosen to present a broad selection and let the contradictions speak for themselves. “We wanted to share distinctly Jewish American voices,” they explain in the introduction, “which include second-generation Jews, converts, those who’ve made aliyah, and others. We included poems that both...

... textures, new registers to explore, new ways to mix the colors of the language. Whatever nonchalance he may affect when he discusses his approach to writing, the signs of a struggle are abundant, and the seriousness of his purpose cannot be doubted. These are poems that won’t stop squeezing new life...

...David Danoff Moss Stanley ’s Almost Complete Poems Copyright © 2017 Tikkun magazine 2017 STANLEY MOSS has been a longtime fixture on the poetry scene. He’s worked as an editor at New Directions, the New York Herald Tribune , the New American Review , and elsewhere...

...David Danoff Without a Claim by Schulman Grace Mariner Books , 2013 Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2014 G race schulman has always been a poet deeply rooted in place and time. Over four decades and six previous collections, her poems have returned to the familiar scenery of New...

... younger voices originating from the Middle East, such as Alice Yousef and Zeina Hashem Beck. The poems vary widely, from verse reportage of working in the refugee camps (Thomas McColl), to spare, rhythmically taut images of violence (Kate Noakes), to the unsettling ironic distances between a world intact...

....” But the examination of such constraint becomes overt in the title poem: “Your mind now, mouldering like wedding cake, heavy with useless experience,” she addresses the mother-in-law of the poem: A thinking woman sleeps with monsters. The beak that grips her, she becomes. And Nature that sprung-lidded still...

..., he published The Eighth Day: Poems Old & New , which includes selections from that book along with later work. The differences in style between the older and newer poems make it seem like two books in one. The poems from Akiba’s Children are intensely worked, almost impacted with terse...

...David Danoff Copyright © 2017 Tikkun magazine 2017 T here’s a school of criticism that prefers to read poems as though the identity of the author doesn’t matter. And there’s another approach that assumes the poet’s identity is paramount and poems can be taken as authentic expressions...

...Tony Hoagland Gulf Music: Poems by Pinsky Robert , Farrar Straus Giroux , 2007 Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2007 Culture BOOKS I FILM I MUSIC [BOOKS] The Single Diamond Made of All Our Lives GULF MUSIC...

... on Fire , Hillman lays out, in direct and unironic terms, an efficacy for poetry that sums up what she has sought in the previous volumes, which first started appearing in 2001. She writes, in “Ecopoetics Minifesto: A Draft for Angie,” that a poem “is its own action, performing practical miracles...

... other young man who has left home to find shared Gibbons’s interest in classical CONVERSATION work.” Greek. Gibbons echoes a poem by the fas­ CREATURES OF A DAY by Reginald Gibbons Throughout the book, Gibbons dis­ tidious, anti-heroic...

... in his third collection of poems at a long, sinuous free-verse line that reminds one, at first glance, of Whitman. Yes, one finds in Williams great sympathy for the suffering of others and a willingness to open poetry to a wide range of human experience, including parts of it many of us would rather...

... through Levertov’s work, from her earliest poems written in England to her last, mortality-infused poems. But to perceive Levertov as merely a mystic is to miss her engaged, iconoclastic, and prophetic side—a side where faith and passionate argument lived, however uneasily at times, in the same person...

... that could be brought to bear at any point of time. It would have been unnatural for him to allude to what was already at hand. We can see the fusion of Biblical overtone and erotic presence in “Jacob and the Angel” (translated by Robert Alter), which centers as so many of his poems do, on the intensity...