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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The poems in this remarkable collection lead us, as all good literature should do, after all the appearances and misdirections, feints and antic dispositions, to nothing but ourselves.
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This is a grim and uncomfortable book to read because it forces us to contemplate each small poem separately and then take them all together, a hard but necessary exercise.
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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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Continuous Creation is a deceptively slight book from an incontrovertibly substantial poet.
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Flame in a Stable admits the reader into the committed life of a literate, far-reaching, colloquial, passionate, playful, and witty poetic voice,
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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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Arts Commentary: Rich in Creativity — But Nothing Else