Recommended Fall reading from the Literary Hub

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Sounds, Signs, and Elegies: Seven New Poetry Collections to Read This Fall

Rebecca Morgan Frank Recommends Raymond Antrobus, Oliver Baez Bendorf, Kinsale Drake, and More

By Rebecca Morgan Frank

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September 3, 2024

Let the rush of Fall books begin!

September is packed with new poetry collections, alongside anthologies such as Here to Stay: Poetry and Prose from the Undocumented Diaspora, edited by Marcelo Hernandez Castillo, Janine Joseph, and Esther Lin, and the unclassifiable gorgeous and edifying textual exhibit (joined by an exhibit of the same name in Los Angeles) of On the National Language: The Poetry of America’s Endangered Tongues, by B.A. Van Sise, with DeLanna Studi, Linda Hogan, Philip Metres, Lehua Taitano, Matthew Lippman, KT Herr and dg nanouk okpik, which incorporates photographs in its documentation of endangered languages.

The seven individual collections below reflect a few hashtag-worthy leanings in recent poetry. Amidst a diverse range of books investigating fatherhood from Gen-X and Millennial perspectives—think Rob Schlegel’s Childcare and Amorak Huey’s Dad Jokes from Late in the Patriarchy–Raymond Antrobus’s latest documents the months leading up to, and following, the birth of a first child.

Poetic expansions off the page in the service of multilingual and accessible poetics take effective shape in Antrobus’ continued bilingual integration of British Sign Language and The Cyborg Jillian Weise’s video sonnets, accessed fully through QR codes on the pages of Pills and Jacksonvilles. And for those of you seeking out original and alive books in the expanse of current  ecopoetry, a wide net can perhaps encompass new standouts from Louise Mathias, Oliver Baez Bendorf, and debut poets Nathan Xavier Osorio and Kinsale Drake.