12 New Books of Poetry to Savor
6 of 12
Blue Yodel
By Ansel Elkins
88 pages;
Yale University Press
The Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize winner has produced a gorgeous, midnight-hued homage to Southern Gothic tradition wherein "The spirit world is in transit— / Souls of the newdead drift / Like floating lanterns / Over a river woven with ghosts."
Published 03/29/2015