The New World : Princeton University Press : 9780691218793 : 069121879X : 19 Oct 2021 : From an ?uncommonly fluent? and ?rewarding? poet (The Observer), a collection of miniature epics that asks: can grace be found amid disarray? The New World, Anthony Carelli's new collection of poems, is an American travelogue that unfolds in a series of darkly comic episodes, with allusions to Dante as a thread throughout. In these epics in miniature, we meet a pilgrim-poet as he awaits the arrival of his child, a would-be Columbus, on the shores of a land ?disenstoried? by explorers present and past. It's a land and a people largely lost in mindscapes and mythscapes, haunted by sketchy aspirational visions, misbegotten misremembering, and emptiness. Nonetheless, the poet steps out to the shore to sing for the child?and reader?to do what Columbus never did: ?land gently. / And listen and / listen and listen / and stay.? Constantly unsettling the rhetoric of inherited forms, the poet shaping these p