Saturday, September 10, 2022

Jack Underwood, _Happiness_

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 FROM 2015--THIS is his first collection, I believe, with a second arriving last year. It feels like an old-school kind of poetry collection...
Thursday, August 4, 2022

Pat Rogers, _The Poet and the Publisher: The Case of Alexander Pope, Esq., of Twickenham versus Edmund Curll, Bookseller in Grub Street_ (1 of 2)

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IS ALEXANDER POPE one of the great English poets? Eighteenth century readers were willing to see him as such, by and large, and. it's ha...

Christian Wiman, _Survival Is a Style_

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WITH WIMAN KNOWN as a poet who is also a person of faith, this new collection's opening with the lines-- Church or sermon, prayer or poe...
Thursday, July 21, 2022

Samuel Daniel, _The Civil Wars_, ed. Michel

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An epic poem about what we got used to calling the Wars of the Roses, composed mainly in the 1590s--about 900 ottava rima stanzas in eight ...
Wednesday, July 20, 2022

Jennifer Moxley, _The Open Secret_

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 READING MOXLEY'S NEW book of essays brought to mind that I was a couple of collections behind on her--a mistake, given that she is one ...

Jennifer Moxley, _For the Good of All, Do Not Destroy the Birds_

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 I HAVE NOT read There Are Things We Live Among , but I have a feeling that book is the closest analogue to this one in Moxley's corpus....
Tuesday, July 19, 2022

Roberto Bolaño, _2666_, trans. Natasha Wimmer

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 THIS IS THE fifth Bolaño novel I have read, and the first I would hesitate to recommend. I started it two years ago and just finished it, m...