The book is set up to be read either from the front or the back, complete with a reversed table of contents at the end. Read from the front, it's a book about American racism and immigrant experience.

THE BEST AMERICAN POETRY 2021, edited by David Lehman and Tracy K. Smith.(Scribner, cloth, $35; paper, $20.) This annual anthology touches on Covid, George Floyd and much else that’s timely and ...

Thomas Herd has just published his first book of poems, titled The Fire ... Media. Hamptons. Palm Beach. Runway. Art & Design. Search. Chic Report. Thomas Herd Discusses His New Book, The Fire That ...