Ange Mlinko

The Shoals of Prose

Recent books of prose by two of our best poets suggest the importance of criticism to the development of a poet’s work.

Transatlantic Flights

The collected poems of Denise Levertov and Anne Stevenson suggest what a poet can gain by expatriation, in both directions between England and the United States.

The Rain Trees

Patterns of Uprooting

On opposite sides of the world—Poland and Uruguay—the poets Ida Vitale and Tomasz Różycki share a close attention to their own languages.

Standing Up to Scrutiny

“In poetry there are never exciting trends, only exciting individuals.”

Wonder Cabinets of the Mind

Robyn Schiff’s Information Desk is an encyclopedic poem that captures the immense experience of working, and being, at the Met.

The Transplanted Ironist

Iman Mersal’s feminism manifests not as a creed but as a tone, a disposition toward life and love.

Timeless Correspondences

The great salutary effect of reading H.D.’s novels and memoirs— many brought out late in life or posthumously— is to restore her to her era.

Potatoes and Pomegranates

a poem

His Nemesis Was Stupidity

Baudelaire thought the scope of his influence would be limited by the perfection of his poetry, which sailed over the heads of the masses.

Bard of New Jersey

There’s tremendous showmanship in August Kleinzahler’s language, the power to leap from dainty diction to grotesque vocabulary within the space of a single line.

Ashbery’s Cliffhangers

John Ashbery’s first posthumous collection is a reminder that collage and other formal experiments have always been central to his work.

‘And You Give Yourself Away’

Doireann Ní Ghríofa’s obsession with the eighteenth-century poet Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chronaill amounts to a search for second sight, a vision to deepen the reality of her own life.

‘The Splendour and the Sting’

The passionate voices and formal experiments of two poets who should no longer be neglected.

Exile in Florida

Naples, Florida

a poem

Water Music

‘A Walk Through Someone Else’

Acts of Extreme Attention

Karen Solie, the consummate poet of the Trans-Canadian Highway, has taken an evolutionary leap with her recent poetry, trading comedy for sublime beauty.

‘Resist and Disobey!’