January 1, 1992
Two Courses in Poetry
An Enabling Humility: Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop, and the Uses of Tradition by Jeredith Merrin. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1990. 185 pages. $35.00; $17.00, paper. The Didactic Muse: Scenes […]
January 1, 1992
Contemporary Poetics and History: Pinsky, Klepfisz, and Rothenberg
The Want Bone by Robert Pinsky. New York: Ecco Press, 1990. 80 pages. $19.95; $9.95, paper. A Few Words in the Mother Tongue: Poems Selected and New (1971-1990) by Irena […]
January 1, 1992
Freaked out: Camille Paglia’s Sexual Personae
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson by Camille Paglia. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990. 718 pages. $35.00. “A woman of ‘Heroick mind,’ she intimidates by […]
January 1, 1992
Probable Reason, Possible Joy
The Collected Poems of Henri Coulette edited, with an introduction, by Donald Justice and Robert Mezey. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press. 1990. 252 pages. $24.95; $14.95, paper. Pieces of a […]
October 1, 1991
Homeward Bound
HOMEWARD BOUND Driving under the Cardboard Pines and Other Stories. By Colleen McElroy. Berkeley: Creative Arts Book Company, 1990. 316 pp. $10.95. What Madness Brought Me Here-New and Selected Poems, […]
October 1, 1991
A Multitude of Dreams
The Eating Hill. By Karen Mitchell. Portland, Ore.: Eighth Mountain Press, 1989. 88 pp. $8.95. The Venus Hottentot. By Elizabeth Alexander. Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia, 1990. 52 […]
July 1, 1991
Affirming Critical Difference: Reading Black Women’s Texts
Changing Our Own Words: Essays on Criticism, Theory, and Writing by Black Women ed. Cheryl A. Wall. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1989. 253 pages. $36.00; $8.95, paper. Wild […]
July 1, 1991
Framed in Words
Selected Poems by Louis MacNeice. Ed. Michael Longley. Winston-Salem, NC: Wake Forest University Press, 1990. 160 pages. $15.95. Selected Poems 1966-1987 by Seamus Heaney. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, […]
July 1, 1991
Earthly Quires
Annonciade by Elizabeth Spires. New York: Penguin Books, 1989. 67 pages. $17.95; $8.95, paper. Take Heart by Molly Peacock. New York: Vintage Books, 1989. 71 pages. $16.95; $9.95, paper. Between […]
July 1, 1991
Portrait of a Lady: Isabella Gardner
The Collected Poems by Isabella Gardner Brockport, N.Y.: BOA Editions, 1990. 163 pages. $25.00, $12.50, paper. * Her gravestone reads “Isabella Gardner 1915-1981: Poet,” but when I say that I […]
April 1, 1991
Solitaries and Storytellers, Magicians and Pagans: Five Poets in the World
In Mad Love and War by Joy Harjo. Middletown, Ct.: Wesleyan University Press, 1990. 65 pages. $20.00; $9.95, paper. The Homeplace by Marilyn Nelson Waniek. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University […]
April 1, 1991
Birth, Death, and “Captivity”
Captivity by Toi Derricotte. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1989. 69 pages. $16.95, hardcover; $8.98, paperback. The publication of Captivity as part of the poetry series from the University of […]