Loads of Learned Lumber
Thursday, August 14, 2008
Juliana Spahr, _This Connection of Everyone with Lungs_
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THE GENERALLY ADMIRING notice paid to Juliana Spahr's most recent book reminded me that this one had been on my shelves for a while with...
Sunday, August 10, 2008
Christian Hawkey, _Citizen Of_
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AS A FAN of Hawkey's first volume, The Book of Funnels , I was looking forward to this one, which I have only now gotten around to (it c...
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Lisa Robertson, _The Men_
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THE MOST INTRIGUING book of poetry I've read in a while, I'd say. Is it a long poem, The Men, in five sections ("Men Deft Men...
Monday, August 4, 2008
Geoffrey G. O'Brien, _Green and Gray_
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O'BRIEN, LIKE HASS, teaches at Berkeley, or at least did when this book came out last year. You wouldn't call him a "School of...
Robert Hass, _Time and Materials: Poems 1997-2005_
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ANOTHER PRIZE WINNER, National Book Award for Poetry in 2007. I am obviously the kind of reader who motivates publishers to plaster those g...
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Anne Enright, _The Gathering_
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LIKE REMAINDER , THIS one won a prize -- 2007 Man Booker. A story of childhood catastrophe/trauma that crucially shapes the protagonist...
Monday, July 21, 2008
Tom McCarthy, _Remainder_
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I PICKED THIS one up because it won a prize, of sorts -- most interesting novel of 2007 according to the editors of Believer magazine. And...
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