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The Totality for Kids, by Joshua Clover. University of California Press. $45.00 cloth; $16.95 paper. As with daffodils and nightingales, postmodernity is only a good subject for lyric poems if [...]

Divide These, by Saskia Hamilton. Graywolf Press. $14.00. However hard I tried, I couldn't make Saskia Hamilton's first book, As For Dream, matter much to me. The poems insisted on [...]

Dancing in Odessa, by Ilya Kaminsky. Tupelo Press. $16.95. Ilya Kaminsky's Dancing in Odessa is a kind of screwball autobiography. The usual hazardous impotence of childhood was, for this poet, [...]

Landscape With Rowers: Poetry From the Netherlands, ed. and tr. by J.M. Coetzee. Princeton University Press. $19.95. Reading this book is a little like discovering Modernism on pottery shards or [...]

Gogol in Rome, by Katia Kapovich. Salt Publishing. $14.99. A friend of mine once claimed she couldn't read Russian novels because the climates were 'so cold.' The poems of Katia [...]

The Prodigal, by Derek Walcott. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. $20.00. On the merits of Derek Walcott's latest book, The Prodigal, Adam Kirsch has proclaimed Walcott 'the greatest living poet writing [...]

Refusing Heaven, by Jack Gilbert. Alfred A. Knopf. $25.00 Jack Gilbert is a poet of reckless charisma and its aftermaths: a catch-as-catch-can Castiglione, consigned by the waywardness of his imagination [...]