April 1, 2003
From Revolution to Canon
The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism, Edited by Vincent Leitch, William E. Cain, Laurie A. Finke, Barbara E. Johnson, John McGowan, and Jeffrey J. Williams. New York: Norton, 2001. […]
April 1, 2003
Repetition and Singularity
The Seven Ages by Louise Glück. New York: HarperCollins, Ecco Press, 2002. 68 pp. $23.00. Never by Jorie Graham. New York: HarperCollins, Ecco Press, 2002. 112 pp. $22.95. Books by […]
January 1, 2003
Forms of Memory
Squares and Courtyards by Marilyn Hacker. New York: W. W. Norton, 2001. 107 pp. $12.00 paper. A Long-Gone Sun by Claire Malroux, translated by Marilyn Hacker. Riverdale on Hudson, N.Y: […]
July 1, 2002
A Way to Frame the Truth
The Tether by Carl Phillips. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2001. 83 pages. $22.00, cloth. In “Recumbent,” a central poem in Carl Phillips’s fifth collection, The Tether, the […]
April 1, 2002
Story’s Stories
Vagrant Grace by David Bottoms. Port Townsend: Copper Canyon, 1999. 95 pp. $14.00. Men in the Off Hours by Anne Carson. New York: Knopf, 2000. 166 pp. $24.00. Erotikon by […]
January 1, 2002
To Feel an Idea
Swarm by Jone Graham. New York: Harper Trade, 2001. 128 pp. $14.00. And out of what one sees and hears and out Of what one feels, who could have […]
January 1, 2002
Oxford Occidentalism, or the Idea of America
The Idea of Culture by Terry Eagleton. Oxford: Blackwell, 2000. 156 pp. ￡2.99 paper. It is a minor tragedy that The Idea of Culture includes two rants: mad old […]
January 1, 2002
Beowulf and ‘Heaneywulf’
“Beowulf, ” translated by Seamus Heaney. In The Norton Anthology of English Literature, 7th edition, eds. M. H. Abrams, Stephen Greenblatt, et al., Vol. I, pp. 29-99. New York and […]
July 1, 2001
The Body on Fire, the Soul in Flight
The Complete Poems of Michelangelo translated by John Frederick Nims. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. 185 pp. $25 hardcover. The Poems of St. John of the Cross translated by […]
July 1, 2001
Out of the Cradle, Violently Rocking: The New Young Poets
The New Young American Poets. Edited by Kevin Prufer. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 2000. 264 pp. $16.95 paper, $49.95 cloth. The New American Poet. Edited by Michael Collier. […]
July 1, 2001
Essays at Midnight
Something about Poetry: Selected Lectures and Essays by Peter Russell. Salzburg: University of Salzburg Press, 1997. 283 pages. £12Art: For Whom and for What? by Brian Keeble. Ipswich: Golgonooza Press, […]
January 1, 2001
To Speak of Woe
Vita Nova by Louise Glück. New York: Eco Press, 1999. 51 pages. $22. Since her debut collection Firstborn (1968), Louise Glück’s poems have thrummed with tension—linguistic, psychological, emotional—the best of […]