Reviewed: The Halo Rule by Teresa Leo. Elixir Press, 2008.
Teresa Leo possesses what a previous generation of critics would have termed an incoherent sensibility. This is not intended to denigrate.… continue reading...
Reviewed: Azores by David Yezzi. Swallow/Ohio University Press, 2008.
Poets and critics alike must resist being swayed by their own rhetoric. In a critic this results in imprecision, emotion, and incoherence.… continue reading...
Reviewed: James Agee: Selected Poems. Edited by Andrew Hudgins. American Poets Project: The Library of America, $20.
The next time you visit a bookstore, please look through the poetry selection.… continue reading...
As Reviewed By: Andrew Goodspeed
John Berryman: Selected Poems, edited by Kevin Young. Library of America, 2004.
Kevin Young’s admirable edition of John Berryman’s verse (for the Library of America’s American Poets Project) meets the primary expectations readers may bring to a new edition of Berryman’s selected poetry.… continue reading...
As Reviewed By: Andrew Goodspeed
Rhinoceros by Kevin Ducey. American Poetry Review. $23.00
Kevin Ducey’s great strength is his daring. He frequently appears silly, he risks silliness in his work, and this silliness sometimes succeeds admirably.… continue reading...
As Reviewed By: Andrew Goodspeed
There is no key to Samuel Beckett’s poetry. It is a body of work that can be as oblique, resistant, and complex to the scholar as it is to a novice reader.… continue reading...
