Kenyon Review, July/Aug 2018

The latest issue of the Kenyon Review is out, offering an extraordinary range of voices. The poets featured in this issue include Victoria Chang, with her haunting, evocative “Obit,” and Natalie Scenters-Zapico, whose recipe-poem, “Receta en el cajón,” after listing ingredients, begins, “When your macho comes home gurgling a bottle of mescal, begin the menudo.” Other poets include Arthur Sze, Cintia Santana, Alice Notley, Amanda Auerbach, Peter Everwine, and Milo de Angelis (translated by Susan Stewart and Patrizio Ceccagnoli). You’ll also find stories by Mahreen Sohail, Anjanette Delgado, and Charles Johnson, part of a fictionalized journal from a new collection of zuihitsu by *Kimiko Hahn*, as well as a fascinating essay by *Rodger Kamenetz*, called “Natural Dreamwork and the Poetic Imagination,” about “the healing potency in dream images.” The issue also includes two essay-reviews by Jeffrey Meyers and David Wojahn;