GALATEA RESURRECTS' 2016 POETRY RECOMMENDATIONS

GALATEA RESURRECTS’ 2016 RECOMMENDATIONS 

Begin With ...

Galatea Resurrects is pleased to offer a list of poetry recommendations! This list (of recommendations, not best-of) was developed by poet-critics who have reviewed for any of Galatea’s issues in the past ten years. To know Galatea is to know we are open to Poetry in all of its forms and variety. Because Galatea believes Poetry is eternal, recommendations were not limited to 2016 publications, though most focused on relatively recent releases.

Only one title was mentioned more than once from our diverse group of reviewers: HELLO, THE ROSES by Mei-mei Berssenbrugge (New Directions, 2013).

May this list move you to discover some of the mentioned titles. Books are listed in alphabetical order of the author’s or editor’s last names.

The prior post lists these books’ publishers; we thank them for all of their work and contributions. 

(As Editor, I made my books ineligible for mention. Reviewers also were not allowed to cite their own books—if a mentioned book is by a poet who’s reviewed for Galatea, that book was cited by another reviewer.)

Eileen Tabios

Editor, Galatea Resurrects

Jan. 1, 2017

GALATEA RESURRECTS’ 2016 RECOMMENDATIONS Begin With...

CARTOGRAPHIES: MEDITATIONS ON TRAVEL by Marjorie Agosín (University of Georgia Press, 2004)

AFTER PROJECTS THE RESOUND by Kimberly Alidio (Black Radish Books, 2016)

TRISKELION, TIGER MOTH, TANGRAM, THYME by Marcia Arrieta (Otoliths, Rockhampton, 2011)

COLLECTED PETRARCH by Tim Atkins (Crater Press, 2014)

KRAZY: VISUAL POEMS AND PERFORMANCE SCRIPTS by Jane Augustine (Marsh Hawk Press, 2015)

AFTERLIVES by Micah Ballard (Bootstrap Press, 2016)

A SCIENCE NOT FOR THE EARTH: SELECTED POEMS & LETTERS by Yevgeny Baratynsky, translated by Rawley Grau (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2015)

ONE BLACKBIRD AT A TIME by Wendy Barker (BkMk Press, 2015)

LIKE A BEGGAR by Ellen Bass (Copper Canyon Press, 2015)

3ARABI SONG by Zeina Hashem Beck (Rattle, 2016)

A PICTURE OF EVERYONE I LOVE PASSES THROUGH ME with collages by Lynn Behrendt, text mixed by John Bloomberg-Rissman and remixed by Lynn Behrendt (Lunar Chandelier Press, 2016)

BRING THE THING by David Berridge (if p then q, 2013)

COME IN ALONE by Anselm Berrigan (Wave Books, 2016)

HELLO, THE ROSES by Mei-mei Berssenbrugge (New Directions, 2013)

QUESTIONS OF TRAVEL by Elizabeth Bishop (Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1965)

DEAD RINGER by Charles Borkhuis (BlazeVOX, 2017)

THE PERFORMANCE OF BECOMING HUMAN by Daniel Borzutsky (Brooklyn Arts Press, 2016)

A WORLD BELOW by Rocío Carlos (Mindmade books, 2014)

THE BEAUTY OF THE HUSBAND: A FICTIONAL ESSAY IN 29 TANGOS by Anne Carson (Vintage, 2002)

HOUSE A by Jennifer S. Cheng (Omnidawn, 2016)

WHEN MY SISTERS GATHER A CELEBRATION OF WOMEN: SISTERS ALL—CONNECTED BY LIFE by Augustella Clay (XLibris, 2007)

BEAST FEAST by Cody-Rose Clevidence (Ahsahta Press, 2014)

WE DENIZENS by Jen Coleman (Furniture Press Books, 2016)

DANCE by Lightsey Darst (Coffee House Press, 2013)

BLUE MOUND TO 161 by Garin Cycholl (Pavement Saw Press, 2005)

WOODNOTE by Christine Deavel (Bear Star Press, 2011)

BLUESHIFT: ART FROM POETRY – POETRY FROM ART, editor Karen Dennison (Karen Dennison, 2016)

STILL LIFE WITH OYSTERS AND LEMONS: ON OBJECTS AND INTIMACY by Mark Doty (Beacon Press, 2002)

ENJOY HOT OR ICED by Denise Duhamel and Amy Lemmon (Slapering Hol Press, 2011)

WHAT TO EAT, WHAT TO DRINK, WHAT TO LEAVE FOR POISON by Camille T. Dungy (Red Hen Press, 2006)

succubus in my pocket by kari edwards (Eoagh Books, 2015)

THE COLLECTED POEMS OF LARRY EIGNER, edited by Robert Grenier and Curtis Faville (Stanford Univeristy Press, 2010)

INSTRUCTIONS WITHIN by Ashraf Fayadh, Trans. Mona Kareem (The Operating System, 2016)

SELECTED POEMS AND POETIC SERIES by Thomas Fink (Marsh Hawk Press, 2016)

THE BEAUTY OF GHOSTS: FIVE VOICE: A THEATER OF POETRY by Luis H. Francia (Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2010)

LYRICS FROM A DEAD LANGUAGE: POEMS 1977-1991 by Eric Gamalinda (Anvil Publishing (Philippines), 1991)

A POETRY OF ELEPHANTS, compiled by Rebecca Gethin (Valerie Morton, 2016)

ALICE IRIS RED HORSE by Yoshimasu Gozo. Translated by Sawako Nakayasu, Hiroaki Sato, Eric Selland, Jeffrey Angles, Richard Arno, Derek Gromadzki, Sayuri Okamoto, Auston Stewart, Kyoko Yoshida and Jordan A. Y. Smith. Edited by Forrest Gander (New Directions, 2016)

SEA-LEVEL NERVE (Book One) by James Grabill (Wordcraft of Oregon, LLC, 2014)

MY ENEMIES by Jane Gregory (The Song Cave, 2013)

I AM THE BEGGAR OF THE WORLD: LANDAYS FROM CONTEMPORARY AFGHANISTAN, Translated and collected by Eliza Griswold with photographs by Seamus Murphy (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014)

BOOKER’S POINT by Megan Grumbling (University of North Texas Press, 2016)

REALMS OF THE MOTHERS: THE FIRST DECADE OF DOS MADRES PRESS, edited by Richard Hague (Dos Madres Press, 2016). Contributors to this anthology of poems from the press’ first ten years are Mary Margaret Alvarado, John Anson, Jennifer Arin, Michael Autrey, Paul Bray, Ann Cefola, Jon Curley, Grace Curtis, Sara Dailey, Dennis Daly, Richard Darabaner, Deborah Diemont, Joseph Donahue, Annie Finch, Norman Finkelstein, Karen George, Gerry Grubbs, Richard Hague, Ruth D. Handel, Pauletta Hansel, Michael Heller, Michael Henson, R. Nemo Hill, W. Nick Hill, Eric Hoffman, James Hogan, Keith Holyoak, Nancy Kassell, David M. Katz, Sherry Kearns, Burt Kimmelman, Ralph La Charity, Pamela L. Laskin, Owen Lewis, Richard Luftig, Austin MacRae, Mario Markus, J. Morris, Patricia Monaghan, Rick Mullin, Fred Muratori, Robert Murphy, Pam O’Brien, Peter O’Leary, Bea Opengart, David A. Petreman, Paul Pines, Don Schofield, David Schloss, Daniel Shapiro, Murray Shugars, Jason Shulman, Maxine Silverman, Lianne Spidel, Olivia Stiffler, Carole Stone, Nathan Swartzendruber, Jean Syed, Madeline Tiger, James Tolan, Brian Volck, Henry Weinfield, Donald Wellman, Sarah White, Anne Whitehouse, Martin Willitts Jr., Tyrone Williams, Kip Zegers

UNBEARABLE HEART by Kimiko Hahn (Kaya/Muae, 1996)

DOLLYLAND by Claire Hero (Tarpaulin Sky, 2012)

e f g  by Valerie Hsiung (Action Books, 2016)

QUITE FRANKLY by Peter Hughes (Reality Street, 2015)

ORPHAN MACHINES by Carrie Hunter (Black Radish Books, 2015)

LEADBELLY by Tyehimba Jess (Verse Press, 2005)

BEAR, DIAMONDS AND CRANE by Claire Kagayama-Ramakrishnan (Four Way Books, 2011)

DEEP CITY by Megan Kaminski (Noemi Press, 2016)

BAN EN BANLIEU by Bhanu Kapil (Nightboat, 2015)

SOUTHNESS by Vincent Katz (Lunar Chandelier Press, 2016)

OPENING THE SEALS by Robert Kelly (Autonomedia, 2016)

ABANDONED ANGEL by Burt Kimmelman (Marsh Hawk Press, 2016)

MACCHU PICCHU ME by Carlos Hiraldo (Palamedes Publishing, 2016)

DISTANT LANDSCAPES by Jane Joritz-Nakagawa (theenk books, 2015)

DIARY OF USE by J. Vera Lee (Tinfish, 2013)

TRISM by Rebecca Loudon (Horse Less Press, 2012)

SISTE VIATOR by Sarah Manguso (Four Way Books, 2006)

THE GOOGLE SONG & OTHER RHYMES FOR OUR TIMES by Ed Maranan

(Anvil Publishing (Philippines), 2015)

NINETY-FIVE NIGHTS OF LISTENING by Malinda Markham (Mariner Books, 2002)

WORKS & DAYS by Bernadette Mayer (New Directions, 2016)

TINY WINDOWS by Duncan McNaughton (Auguste Press, 2014)

POEMS by Rubin Medina (Cow Feather Press, 2015)

IT'S NO GOOD by Kirill Medvedev (Ugly Duckling Presse, Brooklyn, 2012)

SAVING NAILS by Thomas Moore (Moon Pie Press, 2016)

EVA AND GEORGE – SKETCHES IN PEN AND BRUSH by Abegail Morley (Pindrop Press, 2013)

WOLF CENTOS by Simone Muench (Sarabande, 2014)

COMPLICATED GRIEF by Laura Mullen (Solid Objects, 2015)

THE ARGONAUTS by Maggie Nelson (Graywolf, 2015)

THE KEROSENE SINGING by Alistair Noon  (Nine Arches Press, 2015)

STAG’S LEAP by Sharon Olds (Knopf, 2012)

THE SAMPO by Peter O'Leary (The Cultural Society, 2016)

UNCREATED MIRROR by Tamas Panitz (Lunar Chandelier, 2016)

ARRIVE ON WAVE: COLLECTED POEMS OF GILL OTT, edited by Trace Peterson, Gregory Laynor and Eli Goldblatt (Chax Press, 2016)

SUNDIAL [Compleat] 2016, edited by Richard Owens) [Punch Press]. In conjunction with new writing from a wide number of contemporary poets, Sundial [Compleat] returns to circulation a number of significant Punch Press publications. The volume includes Samantha Walton's Amaranth, Unstitched, Quenton Baker's Diglossic in the Second America, Reitha Pattison's A Droll Kingdom, and Luke Robert's previously unpublished Sorbet. Also presented are  content not first published by Punch Press: facsimile reproductions of Justin Katko’s Basic Middle Finger (Shit Valley 2015) and Economic Ophelia, a themed 2014 issue of the Cambridge-based journal Materials devoted to feminisms and edited by David Grundy and Lisa Jeschke. Also included in this volume is the dialog “Distinctions in Proximity,” an exchange between poets Quenton Baker and Alex Gallo-Brown first published online in the 2015 edition of Monarch Review. Contributors also include David Brazil, Boyd Nielson, Lisa Jeschke, Nat Raha, Yosefa Raz, Ian Heames and Jonty Tiplady, Corina Copp, Luke Roberts, David Hadbawnik, Mitch Manning, Joe Luna, Michael Cross, Keston Sutherland, Christina Chalmers, Josh Stanley, Verity Spott, Lucy Benyon, Elana Chavez, Kathryn Griffiths, Rob Halpern, Jeremy Hardingham, Rosa Van Hensbergen, Evan Kennedy, Kevin Killian, Isolde Mayer, Nina Power, Hannah Proctor, Connie Scozzaro, Will Stuart, Marina Vishmidt, Cathy Wagner, Alli Warren, Naomi Weber, Ronaldo Wilson, Thom Donovan, and Danny Hayward. The volume closes with a substantial bibliography on twenty-first century radical anglophone poetry.

THE SELECTED POETRY OF PIER PAOLO PASOLINI, trans. Stephen Santarelli (University of Chicago Press, 2014)

THAT KIND OF SLEEP by Susan Atefat Peckham (Coffee House Press, 2001)

POEMS TO SIVA: HYMNS OF THE TAMIL SAINTS, translated by Indira Viswanathan Peterson (Motilal Banarsidass; First Indian Edition, 1991; Princeton University Press, 2014-2016)

CONTINUOUS FRIEZE BORDERING RED by Michelle Naka Pierce (Tarpaulin Sky, 2013)

MARILYN by Amanda Ngoho Reavey (The Operating System, 2015)

ILLUMINATIONS by Arthur Rimbaud (John Ashbery, translator) (Norton, 2011)

MORNING RITUAL by Lisa Rogal (United Artists Books, 2015)

SCAFFOLDING by Eléna Rivera (Princeton University Press, 2016)

200 HOUSES by Rachel Sills (Knives Forks and Spoons, 2016)

COLLECTED POEMS by Stevie Smith (New Directions, 1983)

WHAT ABOUT THIS: COLLECTED POEMS OF FRANK STANFORD, edited by Michael Wiegers (Copper Canyon Press, 2015)

TENDER BUTTONS by Gertrude Stein (“no particular publisher, whatever is available”)

SLEEPING WITH YOU AND OTHER NIGHT-TIME ADVENTURES by Geoff Stevens (Indigo Dreams Publishing, 2012)

ALMOST INVISIBLE by Mark Strand (Knopf, 2012)

WE WERE MEANT TO BE GENTLE PEOPLE by Dao Strom (MPMP, 2015)

ARCHIPELAGO by Arthur Sze (Copper Canyon Press, 1995)

IN THE CLEARING by Madeline Tiger (Dos Madres Press, 2017)

BLOOD ORANGE by Angela Narciso Torres (Aquarius Press, 2013)

PICTURE THIS by John Trause (Dos Madres Press, 2016)

PEI PEI THE MONKEY KING by Wawa (Tinfish, 2016) 

OR, THE AMBIGUITIES by Karen Weiser (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2015)

CALIFORNIA POEMS by Carolyn Welch (Moon Willow Press, 2014)

ALIVE: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS by Elizabeth Willis (NYRB Poets, 2015)

RADIANT SILHOUETTE: NEW & SELECTED WORK 1974-1988 by John Yau (Black Sparrow Books, 1989)

ALL: THE COLLECTED SHORT POEMS by Louis Zukofsky (Norton, 1965)