On Poetry
April 21, 2011
American Laurels: The Poets Laureate Anthology 4
by Emily Colette Wilkinson
As a volume in the cultural history of American poetry, there’s no doubt that Elizabeth Hun Schmidt’s The Poets Laureate Anthology is a valuable text. For starters, it’s the only book of its kind.
March 2, 2011
In the Company of Amy Clampitt 2
by Polly Rosenwaike
Two years ago I spent some time in Lenox, Massachusetts, at a house once owned by the poet Amy Clampitt. I slept in her bed, rifled through her books, gazed out the kitchen window at the tree by which her ashes are buried.
January 25, 2011
Dada Pedagogy: Andrei Codrescu’s The Poetry Lesson 2
by Josh Cook
Regardless of how it’s labeled, The Poetry Lesson is a brilliant work.
January 7, 2011
No More Irony: A Review of Monica Youn’s Ignatz 2
by Siobhan Phillips
I was suspicious of Ignatz’s subgenre: poetry books that are designedly books rather than collections, their titles linked by a single unifying conceit. The category was proliferating, it seemed to me, cultured by a world of book prizes and writing programs, or encouraged by distinguished precedents and obvious advantages.
July 20, 2010
War Comes Home: Brian Turner’s Phantom Noise 0
by Josh Cook
Contemporary war, in America at least, is now defined as much by coming home as it is by shipping out.
June 10, 2010
Machine Gun Sonnets 4
by Adam Gallari
World War One, when educated and idealistic young men wrote of mustard gas and aerial bombardment using sonnets and couplets.
