Poetry Notes

W.B. Yeats fans will be excited by this new edition of the original version of the Nobel Prize–winning poet's seminal prose work A Vision, edited by Catherine E. Paul and Margaret Mills Harper (Scribner, $60 448p ISBN 978-0-684-80733-1), in which Yeats outlines the occult theories that inform many of his poems.

Continuing its series of anthologies exploring poetic forms, Norton presents The Making of a Sonnet, edited by Edward Hirsch and Eavan Boland (Norton, $29.95 384p ISBN 978-0-393-05871-0), which offers examples of the sonnet grouped in unusually compelling ways, such as chronologically, by world region and by “different lengths.”

Poets and translators Nguyen Do and Paul Hoover have teamed up to create Black Dog, Black Night (Milkweed [PGW, dist.], $18 288p ISBN 978-1-57131-430-7), an anthology of contemporary Vietnamese poetry. Many of these 21 poets have never been translated into English, and these visions of a country forever altered by colonialism and war, and yet also in possession of an ageless cultural history, may alter many American's views of Vietnam.