This is the sound of me patting myself on the back. I read some of those longer collections, and I only got a couple new books this month. High-fives all-around.
Top to bottom, left to right:
Crystal Marys, Feliz Lucia Molina
Collected Poems, H.D.
Bugle, Tod Marshall
Phantom Hour, James Meetze
Cruel Optimism, Lauren Berlant
Inferno, Dante (trans. Mary Jo Bang)
Hardly War, Don Mee Choi
Phantom Pains of Madness, Noelle Kocot
A Bestiary, Lily Hoang
Residuum, Martin Rock
Certain Magical Acts, Alice Notley
Plenty, Corinne Lee
Brief Evidence of Heaven, Nzadi Keita
Unlikely Conditions, Hillary Gravendyk & Cynthia Arrieu-King
Blacks, Gwendolyn Brooks
Extracting the Stone of Madness, Alejandra Pizarnik (trans. Yvette Siegert)
Style, Dolores Dorantes (trans. Jen Hofer)
New and Selected Poems & Translations, Ezra Pound
A Whaling Captain’s Life, Henry Acton (n.p.)
The Egyptian Book of the Dead
The Language of Inquiry, Lyn Hejinian
Stairway to Heaven, Alison Hawthorne Deming
The Sobbing School, Joshua Bennett
The Sympathizer, Viet Thanh Nguyen