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In honor of Peters Makuck's Long Lens: New & Selected Poems, Newsobsersver.com has a wonderful piece about the man and his work: The publication of a "new and selected" edition of a poet's work is a high-water mark for the writer's career. It allows work from older collections that may have gone out of print to get back into circulation, and in one volume it gives a reader a sense of the writer's themes and subject matter as it evolved over the years. It's also a statement from the publisher that here is a writer whose work has passed the...

Congrats to BOA authors Craig Morgan Teicher, Keetje Kuipers, Wyn Cooper, Peter Makuck, and Ece Temelkuran (and translator Deniz Perin) for having their books named on Montserrat Review's list of Best Books for Summer Reading! We've had BOA books listed there before, but not this many - quite an honor! Read the whole list here [Montserrat Review Best Books for Summer Reading List]

[caption id="attachment_448" align="aligncenter" width="200" caption="Carpathia by Cecilia Woloch"][/caption] Bozena U. Zaremba writes about Cecilia Woloch in the new issue of The Cosmopolitan Review: "Petite figure, dark brown hair - lush and curly. Her slightly slanted eyes are kind, attentive and wide open to people who have come to listen to her poetry. The moment Cecilia Woloch starts to talk, the audience falls silent. This extraordinary gift of attracting people's attention immediately draws the listeners into the vibrant and powerful world of her poetic imagination. The emotional intensity, the meaning of each phrase and the rhythm of every stanza come across...

[caption id="attachment_943" align="alignleft" width="164" caption="Ece Temelkuran. BOA poet."][/caption] In 2002, BOA Editions published the first title in our Lannan Translations Selection Series: The Siege by Ljuba Merlina Bortolani, translated by Michael Palma with an introduction by Alfredo De Palchi.  That book marked the beginning of a fruitful relationship between BOA and the Lannan Foundation that has produced 16 more titles, some by world-renown poets such as Ko Un and Adonis, and many by authors making their American debut such as Jean-Michel Maulpoix and Maya Bejerano. The list of translators for the series is equally distinguished, including Pulitzer Prize-winner Charles Simic, Khaled Mattawa, Gary Gach, and younger...

"[Beautiful in the Mouth is] the most unique and startling book I’ve read in a long time..." What else did they say? Find out here: [Devil's Lake Review of Beautiful in the Mouth]