Our Review Editor Josh English reviews his four favorite books of poetry published this year. These are the Women Who Killed It in 2013.

Our Review Editor Josh English reviews his four favorite books of poetry published this year. These are the Women Who Killed It in 2013.

Our Review Editor Josh English reviews his four favorite books of poetry published this year. These are the Women Who Killed It in 2013.

The Warmth of the Taxidermied Animal Tytti Heikkinen (translated by Niina Pollari) 2013 Action Books 115 pages Review by JENIFER PARK Translated from Finnish by Niina Pollari, The Warmth of the Taxidermied Animal, is a compilation of poems from Tytti Heikkinen’s first...

The Captain Asks for a Show of Hands Nick Flynn 2013 Graywolf Press 104 pages Review by THEODORA ZIOLKOWSKI Nick Flynn’s latest collection of poems, The Captain Asks for a Show of Hands, is a chilling journey from beginning to end, in which the unmoored urgently...

Pop Corpse! Lara Glenum 2013 Action Books 186 pages Review by LAURENCE ROSS Lara Glenum’s book, we are told, is a “vocal prosthesis.” Pop Corpse is written in a voice that is unabashedly a stand-in for something else, a substitute for something more natural to which...

Far from Sudden Brent Goodman 2013 Black Lawrence Press 60 pages Review by JOSH ENGLISH Brent Goodman’s second book Far From Sudden is broken up into four sections: “Gravity,” “Telemetry,” “Eventually,” and “Trajectory.”  It is worth noting that each section-title is...

Manhater is a book in three sections. One could argue that these sections are distinct, each with its own speaker inhabiting a unique, post-human world. However, the more I read, the more I began to view Manhater as an account of Mommy V’s evolution…