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The Poetry of Grief
Eileen G’Sell reviews two new poetry collections, Virginia Konchan’s “Requiem” and Cass Donish’s “Your Dazzling Death.”
Poetry
"I have nothing to say, and I am saying it, and that is poetry." — John Cage
Failures of Mirror Logic
Megan Fernandes interviews Kiran Bath about “Instructions for Banno.”
Music and Mystery
Jill Bialosky interviews David St. John about his new book of poems, “Prayer for My Daughter.”
Triumph of the Lost Cause
Jimin Seo examines Azad Ashim Sharma’s collection “Boiled Owls.”
My Poem with This Wailing in the Background
Christopher Kempf reviews Rachel Richardson’s “Smother” and Esther Lin’s “Cold Thief Place.”
Children in the Underworld
Evangeline Riddiford Graham reviews William Archila’s collection “S Is For.”
An Inexhaustible Locomotive: Poems of Dissent and Repose
Alex Mormorunni reviews Bei Dao’s “Sidetracks” and Eliot Weinberger's “The Life of Tu Fu.”
Jessica Abughattas’s “Beautiful Altadena”
In the wake of January’s devastating fires around Los Angeles, LARB presents a new poem from Jessica Abughattas.
Cinema and the Screen of the Self
Philip Sorenson reviews Laura Henriksen’s “Laura’s Desires.”
I Was … But You Were …
On the 10th anniversary of its release, Vrinda Jagota revisits Rupi Kaur’s “milk and honey.”
Crashes on the Information Highway
Kendra Sullivan reviews Chris Campanioni’s “Windows 85.”
Beautiful Excesses
Torsa Ghosal reviews the latest entry in the Murty Classical Library of India series, the “greatest hits” anthology “Ten Indian Classics.”
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