Six micro-reviews of recent poetry books that exhibit an independence of spirit. Each testifies to the range of fine poetry being written and published in this imperiled day.

Our reviewer is seized by the gods & reviews in verse!

Cobra and Maitreya by Severo Sarduy, Suzanne Jill Levine trans. Dalkey Archive Press; What is the What by Dave Eggers, McSweeney's Publishing.

Dave Brinks’ The Caveat Onus: Book Two, the second installment in the Caveat Onus trilogy, is first a structural work of art; without its form, it would be too disconnected from its audience and would mean little for both the reader and the poet, for this collection of poems is as much a journey for Brinks as for his readers.