Poems of Age and Loss
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Scattered Snows, To the North
by Carl Phillips
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
80 pages, $26.

Dances of Time and Tenderness
by Julian Carter
Nightboat Books, 144 pages. $17.95

HEREAFTER
by Alan Felsenthal
The Song Cave, 96 pages. $18.95

PERHAPS there is no one as romantic, or as wistful, as a poet in old age. Likewise there is nothing that spurs a poet’s ruminations so profoundly as loss. Three new collections explore old age and loss in various ways (one in an almost uncategorizable way), each with varying degrees of effectiveness.

Dale Boyer’s latest collection is Columbus in the New World: Selected Poems.