Jim Kates
The biography is a workmanlike introduction, valuable because it brings a measured understanding to Osip Mandelstam’s life and poetry as well as to the horrific decades he lived through.
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In this valuable history, Thomas E. Ricks looks at the critical events of “The Second Reconstruction” as a series of campaigns in a nonviolent war.
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Underlying all of these pieces is the sensibility of the émigrée, the person who has had to reinterpret everything in her life.
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In his poetry, Houman Harouni has peopled a world with voices that are well worth listening to.
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These poems are of their own time and place — written in Haiti and France early in the twentieth century — yet they remain impressively fresh.
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A three-dimensional portrait of one of the most powerful and eloquent leaders of the civil rights movement in Mississippi.
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Ruth Lepson’s poetry, at its most successful, creates the evocative and stimulating effect of a koan.
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Russian poet Osip Mandelstam’s “ancient language” is rendered into real contemporary poetry in English that succeeds in speaking eloquently to the inner eye and ear.
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Translator Dan Veach invites us to “pull up a bench in the mead hall, grab a brew, and enjoy a jazzy new performance.”
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Literate people in the state will be familiar with this story, but it may come as a revelation to those whose Mississippi is limited to a cultural Bermuda Triangle on whose sharp angles sit William Faulkner, John Grisham, and Oprah Winfrey.
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