With themes ranging from nature and climate change to love and war, these 18 resonant collections from debut and established poets make strong suggestions for reading during National Poetry Month.
Looking to celebrate World Poetry Day, National Poetry Month in April, or hoping to update your poetry collection? Take a look at this display shelf.
The goal of this newly revived column will be to highlight recent and forthcoming reprints and rediscoveries, with the aim of helping busy librarians replenish their stock of not merely treasured classics but also notable recoveries from the past, to populate the shelves with exciting, unexpected finds for readers and patrons for years to come.
Complementing LJ’s “Books and Authors To Know: Titles To Watch 2021,” which focuses on fiction and nonfiction, the nearly 100 key poetry titles featured here represent some of the most important and dynamic writing being done today.
Not always easy reading given Bedient’s fierce bent but wholly accessible and bracing; the images rushing down these pages in tightly paced cadence take readers on a haunting journey; dense and intense, energized and anguished, this strong first outing has storytelling appeal; this work will attract a broad cross-section of readers, whether their concerns are politics, parenting, or poetics
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