Only recently available for the first time in English, Panorama is the newly rediscovered first novel of H. G. Adler, a modernist master whose work has been compared to that of Kafka, Joyce, and Solzhenitsyn. A brilliant epic told in ten distinct vignettes, Panorama is a portrait of a place and people soon to be destroyed, as seen through the eyes of the young Josef Kramer. It moves from the pastoral World War I era Bohemia of Josef s youth, to a German boarding school full of creeping prejudice, through an infamous extermination camp, and finally to Josef s self-imposed...

In the pivotal poem -Marking Time, - which appears almost exactly halfway through Peter Filkins's fourth collection of poetry, the speaker reflects on the death of a sibling and how time is marked by our memories. These memories, these moments--whether spent contemplating a painting by Vermeer or the simple toss of a bean bag--ultimately shape who we are. -Yet you are with me here, with me here again, / where neither that moon nor you exist, but live / tethered to this memory composed of words.-

These are poems unafraid to be graceful and engaging. They attain an assurance and...