May 1, 2019
Two Poets by the Lake: James Wright and Carolyn Kizer
This review appears in the May/June 2019 issue of the Kenyon Review James Wright: A Life in Poetry. Jonathan Blunk. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017. 512 pp. $40.00. […]
April 26, 2019
“Iridescent Everything”: On Electric Arches by Eve L. Ewing
Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2017. 90 pages. $16.00. “All I ever really wanted you to know about me / was Fullerton Avenue,” writes Eve L. Ewing, in a poem named for […]
April 19, 2019
Change Agent: On Zachary Mason’s Metamorphica
New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018. 304 pages. $26.00. Ovid’s Metamorphoses concludes with a final, glorious transformation: a celestial capstone to fifteen books of hexameter verse in which […]
April 19, 2019
A Poetry of Attention: On Crosslight for Youngbird by Asiya Wadud
New York, NY: Nightboat Books, 2018. 96 pages. $15.95. “The poet produces the beautiful by fixing his attention on something real. It is the same with the act of love. […]
April 12, 2019
On Man Praying by Donald Platt
Anderson, SC: Parlor Press, 2017. 124 pages. $16.00. The opening stanzas of Donald Platt’s Man Praying perform, in miniature, the formal and thematic maneuvers of the collection as a whole. […]
April 5, 2019
Historical Constraints: On The Blue Flowers by Raymond Queneau
Translated by Barbara Wright. New York, NY: New Directions, 2018. 244 pages. $16.95. Before the group’s anthology was released in 1973, readers had little sense of what to make of […]
April 5, 2019
On You Darling Thing by Monica Ferrell
New York, NY: Four Way Books, 2018. 88 pages. $15.95. What role does luxury play in the most everyday details of life? When shall we consider luxury more than simply […]
March 29, 2019
On The World-Ending Fire by Wendell Berry
Introduced by Paul Kingsnorth. Berkley, CA: Counterpoint Press, 2018. $25.00. “Over the last twenty-five or thirty years, I have been making and remaking different versions of the same argument,” writes […]
March 29, 2019
On Orphic Paris by Henri Cole
New York, NY: New York Review of Books, 2018. 176 pages. $15.95. Serialized over the course of several years in the “Page-Turner” section of the New Yorker, the poet Henri […]
March 22, 2019
March 2019
Micro-Reviews
Miguel Ángel Bustos. Vision of the Children of Evil. Trans. Lucina Schell. co·im·press, 2018. 304 pages. $19.95. Vision of the Children of Evil brings the words of Argentinean visionary and poète […]
March 22, 2019
March 2019 Micro-Reviews
Miguel Ángel Bustos. Vision of the Children of Evil. Trans. Lucina Schell. co·im·press, 2018. 304 pages. $19.95. Vision of the Children of Evil brings the words of Argentinean visionary and poète […]
March 15, 2019
Modernism and the Question of Genre: On Julie Carr’s Real Life: An Installation
Oakland, CA: Omnidawn Publishing, 2018. 232 pp. $17.95. In a recent article, Anita Helle argues that Gertude Stein’s stylistic experimentation could be read as an attempt to transpose the techniques […]