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Larry Eigner’s work has been foundational for contemporary American poetry. What was missing was the biography, which now, thanks to the storied Modern and Contemporary Poetics series of the University of Alabama Press, edited by Charles Bernstein and Hank Lazer, we have. Jennifer Bartlett’s Sustaining Air: The Life of Larry Eigner, is a terrific book. I, as they say, couldn’t put it down, finishing it in a day, and wishing for more.

Kamran Javadizadeh on the writer’s fourth collection, which flickers between prose and verse.

'The Lights,' by acclaimed novelist Ben Lerner, is a poetry collection but so much more — part of a project that makes us question how we experience time.

The title of Richard Hell’s new book of poems, What Just Happened, can be taken in several ways. It could be referring to some very recent occurrence, or it could be pointing to an event that appears to lack all cause or reason. With the addition of a question mark, which though absent may be implied, “What Just Happened?” becomes an expression of shock or wonder or puzzlement.

Donald Trump, the first former president to have a public jail mugshot, is accused of multiple crimes related to intefering in the 2020 election in Georgia.