January 1, 1993
Steel around a Bouquet
Mirrors of Astonishment by Rachel Hadas. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press. 1992. 76 pages. Living in Time by Rachel Hadas. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press. 1990. 188 pages. $12.95, paper. […]
January 1, 1993
Kinds of Knowing
Apocrypha by Eric Pankey. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991. 78 pages. $19.00. The Wild Iris by Louise Glück. Hopewell, NJ: Ecco Press, 1992. 63 pages. $19.95. Heart and Perimeter […]
October 1, 1992
Eat Some, Drink Some, Bury Some
Days Going / Days Coming Back by Eleanor Ross Taylor. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, Poetry Series, 1991. 185 pages. $7.95, paper. The poet is seventy-two and has […]
October 1, 1992
Nightmare History: Derek Walcott’s “Omeros”
Omeros by Derek Walcott. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1990. 325 pages. $25.00. I pass, like night, from land to land; I have strange power of speech; That moment […]
October 1, 1992
Searching for Djuna
Silence and Power: A Reevaluation of Djuna Barnes edited by Mary Lynn Broe. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1991. 424 pages. $29.95; $13.95, paper. “I am the most famous unknown […]
July 1, 1992
Against Mastery
An Atlas of the Difficult World by Adrienne Rich. New York: W. W. Norton & Co. 60 pages. $17.95. What Work Is by Philip Levine. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. […]
July 1, 1992
The Lost Brother
Street of Lost Brothers by Arnošt Lustig. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1990. 207 pages. $32.95; $12.95, paper. A handful of survivors huddles in the town hall, hiding from the final […]
July 1, 1992
To Speak on Behalf
The Gathering of My Name by Cornelius Eady. Pittsburgh, PA: Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1991. 85 pages. $15.95; $9.95, paper. Quilting: Poems 1987-1990 by Lucille Clifton. Brockport, NY: BOA Editions […]
July 1, 1992
Possibilities of Change: Casting the Net Wide
Poetry after Modernism ed. Robert McDowell. Brownsville, OR: Story Line Press, 1991. 376 pages. $24.95; $15.95, paper. Conversant Essays: Contemporary Poets on Poetry ed. James McCorkle. Detroit: Wayne State University […]
April 1, 1992
Susan Howe and Sam Cornish: Two Poetries, Two Histories
1935: A Memoir by Sam Cornish. Boston: Ploughshares Books, 1990. 181 pages. $19.95; $9.95, paper. Singularities by Susan Howe. Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press / The University Press of New […]
April 1, 1992
The Everyday Art of Salvation
If I Had Wheels or Love; Collected Poems of Vassar Miller by Vassar Miller. Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press, 1991. 384 pages. $28.95; $14.95, paper. In 1981, when I was […]
April 1, 1992
Everything Has Its Place
Not Me by Eileen Myles. New York: Semiotext(e), 1991. 202 pages. $6.00. Fear of Subways by Maureen Seaton. Portland, Ore.: Eighth Mountain Press, 1991. 94 pages. $9.95. Ode to Anna […]