PREPOSITION reviews ARS POETICAS (@weslpress.bsky.social, 2025) by Juliana Spahr.

Spahr asks what poetry can achieve when the genre has been co-opted not only by the credentialing agencies of higher ed but by a publishing industry enamored with pabulum.

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PREPOSITION reviews LOST CITIES (Persea, 2025) by Valencia Robin.

"...an elegy for irretrievable histories, those lost in the scatterings and dispersals attributable to bureaucratic capitalism..."

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PREPOSITION reviews BEES, AND AFTER (@yalepress.bsky.social) by John Liles.

Establishing a poetics for an era of ecological ruin, BEES, AND AFTER is an important and deeply impressive debut, one which should launch Liles’ career...

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PREPOSITION reviews MESOPOTOPIA (@penguinbooksusa.bsky.social, 2025) by Anne Waldman.

"[...] casts its gaze backward in the hope of shaking loose some redemptive fragment of history. It is an impossible project—but/and this book is a stunning achievement."

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PREPOSITION reviews ENTER (@graywolfpress.bsky.social, 2025) by Jim Moore.

Enter is at its most substantial when it seems truly to reckon with darknesses of experience. "'I would like to have risen more fully," Moore writes, "to the occasion of my own birth.'"

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PREPOSITION reviews [GAMEROVER (@deepvellumbooks.bsky.social, 2025) by Giancarlo Huapaya, translated by Ryan Greene.

Huapaya and Greene [...] show how corporate ownership of urban space [...] reiterates and elaborates on settler colonialism.

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PREPOSITION reviews MOVING THE BONES (@milkweededitions.bsky.social, 2024) by Rick Barot.

"Barot not only zooms in but problematizes the ethics of doing so, asking how one might privilege romantic love over civic engagement."

Link below and in bio...

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PREPOSITION reviews ECSTASY (Penguin, 2025) by Alex Dimitrov.

"While his enemies will read ECSTASY as the privileged dick-picaresque of the well-connected New Yorker, Dimitrov relishes and returns such animosity..."

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PREPOSITION reviews ALL EMPIRES MUST (Airlie Press, 2025) by Mia Kang.

"Kang imagines mythology in and as 'modern love,' reading sexual and imperial urges against each other, excavating female agency in unlikely places."

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PREPOSITION reviews IF NOTHING (@alicejamesbooks.bsky.social, 2024) by Matthew Nienow.

It is hardly surprising that nearly a decade has passed since Nienow’s debut; IF NOTHING shows the kind of manuscript one might produce given that duration.

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PREPOSITION reviews HELEN OF TROY, 1993 (Scribner, 2025) by Maria Zoccola.

"One cannot market a book as a salt-of-the-earth 'discovery' and as a product, on the other hand, of elite institutions in 'official verse culture.' [...] The book itself is fine."

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PREPOSITION reviews AFTER IMAGE (Copper Canyon, 2024) by Jenny George.

"In poems as 'clear as birdsong,' to use George’s metaphor, AFTER IMAGE renders the natural and object worlds with gorgeous and meticulous simplicity."

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PREPOSITION reviews OSSIA (Changes, 2024) by @jiminseo.bsky.social

"Everything I had seen suggested I would hate the book [...] Ubiquitous in my Instagram feed, OSSIA had seemed one of those poetry culture causes célèbres [...]"

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PREPOSITION announces the 2024 Preppies, for best collection, best debut, and best design among books reviewed this year.

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PREPOSITION reviews HEREAFTER (@The Song Cave, 2024) by Alan Felsenthal.

"A smart sophomore collection from a wondrously dark mind, HEREAFTER examines the relation of life to afterlife, of here to hereafter..."

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