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What the Laureate Left Out
Heather Treseler accepts the challenge of “The Poems of Seamus Heaney,” a new “definitive collection” of the Irish poet’s work.
Poetry
"I have nothing to say, and I am saying it, and that is poetry." — John Cage
Closing the Distance, Emerging from the Earth
Nathan Xavier Osorio finds pain and tenderness in Donika Kelly’s newest poetry collection.
Phases of the Quotidian
C. Francis Fisher interviews Shangyang Fang about his new book “Study of Sorrow: Translations.”
Cisterns of Multiplicity
Yvonne Kim invests in “The New Economy,” the latest poetry collection from Gabrielle Calvocoressi.
How to Access Art
Pasquale Toscano considers Rob Macaisa Colgate’s debut poetry collection, “Hardly Creatures.”
I Could Smell Without Smelling
Lindsey Webb follows Rainer Diana Hamilton’s paths through sensing and remembering in “Lilacs.”
What Black Thing Have I Seen at a Museum?
Mathangi Subramanian speaks to Donika Kelly about her new poetry collection, “The Natural Order of Things.”
Leah Umansky’s “Ars Poetica: The Thing Is …”
Leah Umansky offers a treatise on living among nature, in a poem from LARB Quarterly no. 46: “Alien.”
Two Poems by Rickey Laurentiis
Rickey Laurentiis dissects identity and gender in two poems from LARB Quarterly no. 46: “Alien.”
Nico Amador’s “Adams”
Nico Amador traces abandoned lineages, in a poem from LARB Quarterly no. 46: “Alien.”
From aracelis girmay’s “The Dog”
In a poem from LARB Quarterly no. 46: “Alien,” aracelis girmay encounters the self as a wild animal.
Timothy Donnelly’s “To the Alien”
Timothy Donnelly imagines the daunting task of encapsulating humanity’s woes, in a poem from LARB Quarterly no. 46: “Alien.”
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