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★ The New Measures

By A.F. Moritz

The poem “Explorer’s Notes,” from A.F. Moritz’s follow-up to his 2009 Griffin Poetry Prize–winning collection, The Sentinel, begins, “I came to another ruin and fell into a dream.” The dream Moritz is writing out of, ... Read More »

April 12, 2012 | Filed under: Poetry

The Unmemntioable

By Erin Mouré

Prolific poet and translator Erín Moure’s latest book is a work of procedural poetry about the ways familial language and trauma reside in the body. The poems employ diverse tactics and approaches, including palimpsest, memoir, ... Read More »

April 9, 2012 | Filed under: Poetry

Monkey Ranch

By Julie Bruck

Montreal native Julie Bruck’s third collection of poems is also her first since 1999. The intervening years have seen seismic shifts in aesthetics, but Bruck, now based in San Francisco, has produced a timely reminder ... Read More »

March 26, 2012 | Filed under: Poetry

Paradoxides

By Don McKay

Don McKay’s 12th collection is his first since the 2007 Griffin Poetry Prize–winning Strike/Slip. Despite the fact that this new volume is weighted toward verse about aging and life’s inevitable deterioration, its paradoxically upbeat and ... Read More »

March 22, 2012 | Filed under: Poetry

The Juliet Stories

By Carrie Snyder

Like her first book, Hair Hat, Carrie Snyder’s sophomore offering is a collection of linked short stories. Here they are arranged in a novelistic arc, following the titular heroine from a childhood caught between foreign ... Read More »

March 12, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Short