Jim Kates
If, as a commemorative volume, “Fifty Poems” introduces readers to sample the German poet more extensively, either in the original or in the range of translations currently available, it will have accomplished a valuable task.
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This splendid book is a love letter and a dissertation, almost a song in itself.
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Rachel Hadas’s book of prose poems is a set of meditations grounded in a life well lived and much observed, an experimental field for examining the nature of [human] potentialities.
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The value of “On Frost and Eliot” is sending the reader spinning out of its own text and back to poems by two of the major poets of the 20th century, each of whom has suffered from the vagaries of fashion, both in popularity and neglect.
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Authors Anthony E. Kaye and Gregory P. Downs claim that Nat Turner would have seen himself as a Christian prophet.
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This production brings the Peterborough Players back in line with their own best traditions: entertaining, thoughtful, delightfully irreverent.
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Translator Stephen Mitchell serves Catullus best with the poems that don’t demand cleverness, where the sentiment is at least seemingly direct.
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Let’s hope that this book will provide an overdue and well deserved third act for the poetry of one of the twentieth century’s poetic masters.
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Jamaican poet Ishion Hutchinson’s New-World, nonwhite perspective claims its own stake in a history that we have come too much to associate with its imperialist heavyweights.
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A reprint from 50 years ago, this small book brings to the English-speaking world a strategic introduction to the work of a major French poet of the twentieth century.
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Arts Commentary: Rich in Creativity — But Nothing Else