Three Poets
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HER BIRTH AND LATER YEARS
New and Collected Poems, 1971-2021
by Irena Klepfisz
Wesleyan Univ. Press. 296 pages, $28.

COMMON LIFE
by Stéphane Bouquet
Nightboat Books. 128 pages, $14.99

GUSHER: Poems
by Christopher Stephen Soden
Queer Mojo. 120 pages, $14.95

ONE COULD HARDLY FIND  a more diverse group of books than this: one by a pioneering Jewish lesbian poet originally from Poland; one by a French surrealist; and a third by a gay man living in Dallas. All are propelled by completely singular impulses, and all have something wonderful to offer.

Dale Boyer is the author of Columbus in the New World: Selected Poems.