Jim Kates
It is always a pleasure to read the poems of a writer who has an ear for language and an eye for form, a voice of their own, and an interest in a world beyond the reach of their own person.
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It is the loss of memories and the meaning of memory that dominate, generating speculations that draw the reader into and through Maria Stepanova’s argument and interpretations.
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The Movement works best as a stripped-down, high-speed introduction to the struggle for civil rights, nothing more.
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Poet Paul Celan has come to embody in person and in print the agonies of a half century of European culture.
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It’s hard to imagine many of Gail Mazur’s poems emerging from anywhere else than from inside Route 128.
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In Henri Cole’s best poems, the outside and the inside interpenetrate and merge.
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Take the poems slowly, enjoy the Cage-y silences, the concentrated words as they appear.
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For a generation of Russians, Joseph Brodsky was the poet, almost a code-word in the discourse of the intelligentsia, like Nabokov.
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In these poems, contemplation, serenity, and service are the order of the day.
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The overall effect is one of a genial, superficial club lecture on reading and writing poetry, punctuated by Frost’s Greatest Hits.
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