PREPOSITION reviews THE NEW ECONOMY (@coppercanyonpress.bsky.social, 2025) by Gabrielle Calvocoressi.
"The collection’s insistence on self is not so much a product of our contemporary narcissism—or not only that—as it is an aesthetic and affective condition."
www.prepositionmag.com/calvocoressi...
PREPOSITION reviews MONK FRUIT (Nightboat, 2025) by Edward Salem.
"The book is simultaneously hilarious and hard-edged, bathetic and heartbreaking, and I would not be surprised to find Salem’s stature rising considerably over the coming months."
www.prepositionmag.com/salem-monk-f...
PREPOSITION reviews THE SAME MAN (@upittpress.bsky.social, 2025) by Bobby Elliott.
"...a beautifully introspective portrait of abusive family dynamics, and a meditation on how forms of care sometimes calcify over into contempt..."
www.prepositionmag.com/elliott-the-...
PREPOSITION reviews SAY FIRE (@archipelagobooks.bsky.social, 2025) by @Selma Asotić.
"...Asotić pushes past this concern to a broader and more damning implication of institutional intellectualism, including poetry, in systems of neoliberal ideology..."
www.prepositionmag.com/asoti%C4%87-...
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.
www.prepositionmag.com/spahr-ars-po...
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..."
www.prepositionmag.com/robin-lost-c...
Angie Estes "earned a Ph.D. but never an MFA, so she never got run out of workshop for breaking the standard MFA rules: no fancy vocabulary; for god’s sake no foreign phrases unless they came from your grandmother; no punning or rhyming; no highbrow allusion."
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
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...
www.prepositionmag.com/liles-bees-a...
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."
www.prepositionmag.com/waldman-meso...
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.'"
www.prepositionmag.com/moore-enter
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.
www.prepositionmag.com/huapaya-game...
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...
www.prepositionmag.com/barot-moving...
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..."
www.prepositionmag.com/dimitrov-ecs...
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."
www.prepositionmag.com/kang-all-emp...
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.
www.prepositionmag.com/nienow-if-no...
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."
www.prepositionmag.com/zoccola-hot-93
What surreal joy it is to be entrusted with the publication of Angie Estes' seventh collection. She is among our nation's very finest poets... and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for very good reasons! www.unboundedition.com/product/last...
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."
www.prepositionmag.com/george-after...
Poets and fiction writers! WEST BRANCH is looking for two Associate Editors, one in poery, one in fiction. We pay! Details below --
We are honored to announce that Unbound will publish Angie Estes’ 8th book, The Swallows Come Out: Selected Poems, 1995-2025, a volume of her most inventive and compelling poems. Coming March 2026.
“These are poems for the ages."
-Patrick Davis, publisher and editor in chief
More: loom.ly/Jv9FWAY
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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 [...]"
www.prepositionmag.com/seo-ossia
PREPOSITION announces the 2024 Preppies, for best collection, best debut, and best design among books reviewed this year.
www.prepositionmag.com/preppies-2024
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..."
www.prepositionmag.com/felsenthal-h...
