As Reviewed By: Sunil Iyengar
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Thumbing at leisure through Donald Justice’s poems, one encounters several worthy candidates for an imagined memorial reading.… continue reading...
Book of the Year: The Collected Poems of Donald Justice (Knopf)
Runner-Up: Second Space by Czeslaw Milosz (Ecco). Inner Voices: Selected Poems by Richard Howard (FSG).… continue reading...
As Reviewed By: James Rother
Just barely octogenarian (but grown wispy), Hugh Kenner, like the Romantic correspondent breeze he so adamantly eschewed in the prolonged swath through modernist studies he cut like a mighty wind, slipped away a year ago this past month, a legend diminished but certainly not obscured by the marginalizations heaped upon him in recent years.… continue reading...
As Reviewed By: Jan Schreiber
For years I resisted the temptation to sum up Anthony Hecht’s work as a single, completed whole.… continue reading...
As Reviewed By: Ernest Hilbert
It will be frequently remarked elsewhere that the past year saw many fine poets cross the bar, but only one of them devoted huge energies to poems about young men crossing barroom floors.… continue reading...
As Reviewed By: Katy Evans-Bush
… continue reading...Imagine growing up in a society where one’s first and only experience of music occurred in a schoolroom, where the beauty of music was meticulously analysed and explained to you and where you were judged by your ability to explain it in turn.
As Reviewed By: Christopher Bakken
In Letters from an American Farmer, frontier agrarian J. Hector St. John de Crevècoeur posits that
… continue reading...Men are like plants; the goodness and flavor of the fruit proceeds from the peculiar soil and exposition in which they grow.
