July 1, 1988
Reading Sven Birkerts
An Artificial Wilderness: Essays in Twentieth-Century Literature by Sven Birkerts. New York: William Morrow. 1987. 431 pages. $20.95. “The arrow of modern life and the arrow of private sensibility […]
July 1, 1988
Formal Allegiances: Selected Poems x 6
Rock and Hawk by Robinson Jeffers. Edited by Robert Hass. New York: Random House, 1987. 288 pages. $19.95. A Robert Penn Warren Reader by Robert Penn Warren. New York: Random […]
July 1, 1988
Alexandrian Circles
The Poetics of Cavafy: Textuality, Eroticism, History by Gregory Jusdanis. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987. 193 pages. $29.00. Most poets in our century have written discursively, leaving us with […]
April 1, 1988
Black and White and Crimson and Purple and Wild
Rebecca West: A Life by Victoria Glendinning. New York: Knopf, 1987. 300 pages. $19.95. In one of his admirable ghost stories, M. R. James presents a minor character as a […]
April 1, 1988
Telling the Dancer from the Dance
Days on Earth; The Dance of Doris Humphrey by Marcia Siegel. Yale University Press, 1987. 320 pages. $30.00. The progenitors of Modern Dance, its intrepid pioneers, have become almost mythic […]
April 1, 1988
Human? Or Female?
The Grounding of Modern Feminism by Nancy F. Cott. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1987. 372 pages. Tillie Olsen and a Feminist Spiritual Vision by Elaine Neil Orr. […]
January 1, 1988
Toward a Tragic Wisdom and Beyond
Selected Poetry of Yehuda Amichai edited and translated by Chana Bloch and Stephen Mitchell. New York: Harper & Row, 1986. 163 pages. $18.95, $12.95, paper. The Springhouse by Norman Dubie. […]
January 1, 1988
New Collections of American Poetry, Prose
The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams: Volume I 1909-1939 edited by A. Walton Litz and Christopher MacGowan. New York: New Directions, 1987. 579 pages. $35.00. The Complete Prose of […]
January 1, 1988
On Art and Artistic Making
Realism, Writing, Disfiguration: On Thomas Eakins and Stephen Crane by Michael Fried. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1987. 215 pages. $29.95. The Psychology of Perspective and Renaissance Art by […]
October 1, 1987
Time and Time Again
And Venus Is Blue by Mary Hood. New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1986. 293 pages. $15.95. Delia Racing’s father, James Racing, dies six times in the title story of […]
October 1, 1987
Orthodox Formalism and the Metaphysics of Pictorialism
Working Space (The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures: 1983-84) by Frank Stella. Illustrated. Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press, 1986. 177 pages. $14.95, paper. Ambitious, major painting and sculpture continue […]
October 1, 1987
The Language of Chaos
Fearful Symmetry: The Search for Beauty in Modern Physics by A. Zee. New York: Macmillan, 1986. 322 pages. $25.00. T.S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens, and the Discourses of Difference by Michael […]