An Unkindness of Ravens by Meg Kearney. BOA Editions, 2002. $12.95, 81 pps.
The Guests at the Gate by Anthony Piccione. BOA Editions, 2002. $13.95, 68 pps.… continue reading...
Collected Later Poems by R. S. Thomas. Bloodaxe, 2004. 368 pages, $25.95.
As Reviewed By: Marc Pietrzykowski
“And I that have not your faith, how shall I know
That in the blinding light beyond the grave
We’ll find so good a thing as that we have lost?”… continue reading...
John Clare: A Biography by Jonathan Bate. Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2003. 650 pps. $40.00
‘I am’: The Selected Poetry of John Clare, edited by Jonathan Bate.… continue reading...
“The Maya Angelou Life Mosaic Collection.” Available at Hallmark Cards and Gifts. Various pieces, priced from $7.99 to $49.99.
As Reviewed By: Marc Pietrzykowski
Maya Angelou’s new “Life Mosaic Collection” at Hallmark arrives at a time of crisis in the world of greeting card verse.… continue reading...
As Easy As Lying: Essays on Poetry by H. L. Hix. Etruscan Press, 2002. 148 pps., $17.95
Surely As Birds Fly by H. L. Hix. Truman State Press, 2002.… continue reading...
Americus, Book 1, by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. New Directions, 2004. 91 pages, $21.95.
The Unsubscriber, by Bill Knott. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004. 122 pages, $20.00.… continue reading...
As Reviewed By: Marc Pietrzykowski
I. Forget About Marketing
F. T. Marinetti’s publication of the Futurist Manifesto in Le Figaro on Feb. 20, 1909, managed to shock its readers by melding a traditional form-the individual or collaborative statement of disputation against an orthodoxy-with the language of Revolution, or, as it was later called, Marketing:
… continue reading...“Look at us!
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Breaking News by Ciaran Carson. Wake Forest University Press, 59 pps.
The Soldiers of the Year II, by Medbh McGuckian. Wake Forest University Press, 130pps.… continue reading...
