Featuring the poem "And death demands a labor" by Sumita Chakraborty, shortlisted for The 2018 Forward Prize for Best Single Poem. The September-October 2017 issue of PN Review, one of the most outstanding poetry journals of our time. This issue's highlights: Major new sequence of poems by Simon Armitage; New light on Ernest Hemingway in Cuba; Cultural news from South Korea; PN Review debuts by Asian, American and British poets; New to PN Review this issue: Sumita Chakraborty, Theophilus Kwek and Mary Jean Chang; Subject matter includes chickens, the art of translation from Modern Greek, and Umberto Saba the great Trieste poet.