April 1, 1999
Almost No Center
Almost No Memory By Lydia Davis. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1997. 194 pages. $21. Break It Down by Lydia Davis. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1986. 177 […]
April 1, 1999
Imagining Ireland: R. F. Foster’s “W. B. Yeats: A Life” and the ‘New’ Irish Renaissance
W.B. Yeats: A Life Volume I: The Apprentice Mage, 1865-1914 by R.F. Foster. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. 640 pages. $35, cloth. I. The Irish Are Hot in the […]
January 1, 1999
What to Make of an Augmented Thing
Collected Poems of Amy Clampitt by Amy Clampitt. New York: Knopf, 1997. 471 pages. $30.00. Amy Clampitt looked like a tea-cozy; lived like a bohemian; thought like a radical; sounded, […]
July 1, 1998
The Return of the Galleons
Twentieth-century Latin American Poetry: A Bilingual Anthology. Edited by Stephen Tapscott. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1996. 418 pages. $55.00. This interesting collection of twentieth-century Latin American poetry, with parallel […]
July 1, 1998
This, Here, Now
Touch by Gabriel Josipovici. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1996. 148 pages. $27.50. Visiting friends leave the poet for a while and go off for a walk. He […]
July 1, 1998
Four Voices Thinking out Loud
Through One Tear by Edward Nobles. New York: Persea, 1997. 96 pages. $22.00. Falling Water by John Koethe. New York: HarperCollins, 1997. 80 pages. $22.00. Music Minus One by Jane […]
July 1, 1998
Isn’t It Romantic?
Sun Under Wood by Robert Hass. Hopewell, NJ: Ecco, 1996. 96 pages. $22.00, cloth. One clue that we have not yet entered the postindustrial era is in our poetry: Romanticism—that […]
July 1, 1998
Survivalist Selves
Black Zodiac by Charles Wright. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1997. 85 pages. $19.00, hardcover. Loose Sugar by Brenda Hillman. Hanover, NH: Wesleyan University Press, 1997. 115 pages. $12.95, […]
April 1, 1998
Heard and Unheard Melodies
In Their Own Voices: A Century of Recorded Poetry. Produced by Rebekah Presson and David McLees. With essays by Erica Jong, Al Young, and Rebekah Presson. Los Angeles: Rhino/Word Beat, […]
January 1, 1998
Three Polish Poets, Two Nobel Prizes
Facing the River: New Poems by Czeslaw Milosz. Trans. by the author and Robert Hass. Hopewell, NJ: Ecco Press, 1995. 66 pages. $22, hardbound. Talking to My Body by Anna […]
July 1, 1997
Scholarly Designs
Poetry and Criticism, 1940-1995 by Robert von Hallberg, Evan Carton, and Gerald Graff. Volume 8. The Cambridge History of American Literature. General editor Sacvan Bercovitch. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. […]
July 1, 1997
Donald Justice: The Artist Orpheus
New and Selected Poems by Donald Justice. New York: Knopf, 1995. 176 pages. $25.00. Donald Justice’s New and Selected Poems looks back and collects the past. The poems, new […]