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The latest addition to our Reviews section is by Grant Barber on Elsewhere, an anthology of poetry edited by Eliot Weinberger, and out from Open Letter Books and co-published by the Poetry Foundation.

If you’re a fan of Eliot’s essays and commentary (such as ), a fan of poetry, or both, this is a slim volume that’s sure to please. Not only is it a quick breakdown of some of the best poets from around the world, but it also takes a different approach to understanding what it may feel like to be “other.”

Here’s the beginning of Grant’s review:

What a wonderful, idiosyncratic book Weinberger has written. I say book, but the closest comparison I could make to other works being published right now are from Sylph Edition���Ĵ�ý�s “Cahiers Series“���Ĵ�ý�short pamphlet-like meditations by notable writers such as Anne Carson, Elfriede Jelinek, and László Krasznahorkai among the architects, playwrights, painters, and philosophers. Weinberger certainly belongs in such company; anything he writes can be assumed to be interesting, different, intellectually engaging. The essay collections he writes���Ĵ�ý�and Elsewhere can be considered to be an extended meditation/essay���Ĵ�ý�puts him as well alongside Rebecca Solnit, Lawrence Weschler, Sven Birkets, and Ilan Stavans.

Elsewhere consists of poems, all in translation, by writers of the Modernist era (by Weinberger���Ĵ�ý�s use here roughly 1910s-1940s) illustrating a broad sensibility that Weinberger calls the sense of being ���Ĵ�ý�elsewhere���Ĵ�ý�. . .

For the rest of the review, go here.