New Exercises

New ExercisesBy Franck Andr Jamme, Translated by Charles Borkhuis Description Reviews These brief geometrical wonders pack a big punch as puzzles that become poems. Like tiny poetic word searches, these small poems reveal themselves as tightly packed aphorisms, asserting themselves physically in the world with a wisdom that is somehow simultaneously novel and ancient. Check out the New Exercises Limited Edition Box Set. Even as Jammes neat blocks, steles, and

Following their book AMANDA PARADISE: Resurrect Extinct Vibration (winner of the PEN and the Ruth Lilly Prize for Poetry)

“I don’t have a body to feel afraid

The naturalness of Koeneke's essayistic explorations and his adept weaving of disparate sources make this an engaging

by Rod Smith

a book that chronicles the lived experiences of people who cannot let go of things

these poems from Georg Büchner Prize winner Ernst Meister’s last decade are oracular and entrancing

O’Brien’s greatest achievement is that he never fetishizes himself or panders to his audience

to make it not all poetry

McCann succeeds—it’s as if McCann leaves the door to the poem ajar

The contradictions of lyric unfold

With this collection [Caples has] certainly achieved his goal of being “an activist critic”—one who seeks out lesser-known artists and writers

and what they might look like in their primordial state