January 1, 2014
George and John
The Keats Brothers: The Life of John and George by Denise Gigante. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2011. 467+pp. $35.00, hardcover. Whatever else is required of it and whatever else […]
October 1, 2012
Citadel of Integrity
Hero: The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia. By Michael Korda. New York: Harper, 2010. 762 pp. $36.00, hardcover. T. E. Lawrence’s greatest achievements were his leadership of […]
October 1, 2012
George Steiner, Last of the Europeans
The Poetry of Thought: From Hellenism to Celan. By George Steiner. New York: New Directions, 2012.192 pp. $24.95, hardcover. We don’t have many examples of writers embarking on a […]
April 1, 2011
No Other Place, No Other Time
Czesław Miłosz and Joseph Brodsky: Fellowship of Poets by Irena Grudzińska Gross. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009. 362 pp. $40.00, hardcover. Brodsky Through the Eyes of His Contemporaries, vol. […]
April 1, 2011
Be Strong!
Letters by Saul Bellow. Edited by Benjamin Taylor. New York: Viking, 2010. xxxvii+571 pp. $35.00, hardcover. Saul Bellow is the most coruscating stylist, the most brilliant intellect, the most compassionate […]
October 1, 2010
Come Back: The Work and Life of Storm Jameson
Margaret Storm Jameson: A Life by Jennifer Birkett. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. 441 pages. $49.95, hardcover. The fiction of Storm Jameson includes some of the most haunting writing of […]
January 1, 2010
Survival, Transformation, and Renewal in Mending Skins
Mending Skins by Eric Gansworth. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005. 164 pp. $15.95, paperback. Eric Gansworth’s Mending Skins takes us back to the Tuscarora Reservation in upstate New York, […]
January 1, 2010
Embodying Life in Art
Embodying Life in Art A Half-Life of Cardio-Pulmonary Function: Poems and Paintings by Eric Gansworth. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2008. 135 pp. $19.95, hardcover. Eric Gansworth’s self-portrait rides the spine […]
October 1, 2009
Erotic Dialogues
Same Life, Maureen N. McLane. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008. 128 pp. $24.00, hardcover. Intruder. Jill Bialosky. New York: Knopf, 2008. 96 pp. $25.00, hardcover. Maureen N. McLane’s […]
October 1, 2009
Reading Marlowe Again
The Collected Poems of Christopher Marlowe. Patrick Cheney and Brian J. Striar, eds. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. 302 pp. $39.95, paperback. The shepherd’s still waiting for an answer, […]
July 1, 2009
‘Flat death’: Irretrievable Loss in Three Contemporary Poets
Matter of Fact by Eamon Grennan. Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, 2008. 88 pp. $15.00, paperback. Elegy by Mary Jo Bang. Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, 2007. 80 pp. $20.00, hardcover. Backwards Days by […]
April 1, 2009
In the Hurricane’s Eye: On “The Butterfly’s Burden”
The Butterfly’s Burden by Mahmoud Darwish. Translated by Fady Joudah. Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 2006. 327 pages. $20.00 Contemporary poets in the United States seem to find […]