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Marcia Karp

Theater Review: Rebel Revels at the Poets’ Theater’s “Beowulf”

Everything in this production been given a Scandinavian flavor – special kudos to prosciutto for playing its role as boar’s meat quite well.

By: Marcia Karp Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Benjamin Evett, Beowulf, Beowulf: A Feast of Story, David Gullette, Johnny Lee Davenport, The Poets' Theatre

Poetry Review: “Davey McGravy” — Real Grief, Real Imagination

Part of the maturity of Davey McGravy is how, though each poem has its own shape, each is a necessary part of the whole.

By: Marcia Karp Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Davey McGravy, David Mason, Paul Dry Books, Poetry

Poetry Review: “The New Oxford Book of War Poetry” — The Duty to Run Mad

Editor Jon Stallworthy’s preference in this superb anthology is for poems that question, or provoke questions about, war.

By: Marcia Karp Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Jon Stallworthy, Oxford University Press, Poetry, The New Oxford Book of War Poetry, War poetry, World War I

Book Review: “Becoming a Londoner” — A Record of a Charmed Life or A Life Made Charming

David Plante’s non-fiction and fiction are of a piece. There is the honesty of a writer who is willing and able to, first, face himself, then, write what he sees, and then, allow the world to see his seeing.

By: Marcia Karp Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Becoming a Londoner, David Plante, Difficult Women, The Catholic, The Pure Lover: A Memoir of Grief

Poetry Appreciation: Seamus Heaney — “You’ll know them if I can get them true”

Throughout his writing, poet Seamus Heaney’s penetrating imagination is one that strives for accuracy.

By: Marcia Karp Filed Under: Books, Featured Tagged: Irish poetry, Poetry, Seamus Heaney

Book Review: “The Goddess Chronicle” — Needs Less Plot, More Imagination

There is a paucity of richness in The Goddess Chronicle. The myth might have been, but wasn’t, mined for tales of compassion, or inevitability of sorrow, or the psychology of misogyny or of revenge, or the strictures of fate.

By: Marcia Karp Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review, World Books Tagged: Canongate Books, Marcia Karp, Myth, Natsuo Kirino, The Goddess Chronicle

Book Review: A Compelling Look at the Life of Poet John Keats

There is a steadiness about Nicholas Roe’s writing that is deceptive; the life in the Life does not jump off the page, but it accumulates during the reading so that something of what it felt like to be around John Keats remains, as things do when truly experienced.

By: Marcia Karp Filed Under: Books, Featured Tagged: biography, John Keats, Nicholas Roe, Yale-University-Press

Poetry Review: “The Briar Patch” — Crafty Poems, Accomplished and Sly

Poems of concise and precise description and philosophy find their way among poems of memory and daily life, money, art, love, and the oddities in giving names. J. Kates’s technique is alive and various throughout.

By: Marcia Karp Filed Under: Books, Featured Tagged: Hobblebush Books, J Kates, Poetry, The Briar Path

Poetry Review: The Beautiful Precision of Poet David Ferry

David Ferry’s voice is quiet but never shirks. It admits directly and indirectly that the world is a perplexing place.

By: Marcia Karp Filed Under: Books, Featured Tagged: Bewilderment, David Ferry, On The Side of the River: Selected Poems, Waywiser Press

Theater Review: A Moving “let us find the words”

Ingeborg Bachmann wanted freedom for them both. She says in her letter, “I am free and I am lost in this freedom.” Dominique Frot is a brave actress. She presents the poet’s freedom in her body and voice.

By: Marcia Karp Filed Under: Featured, Theater, World Books Tagged: Alexander Muheim, Dominique Frot, German Stage, Goethe-Institut, Hans Peter Cloos, Ingeborg Bachmann, let us find the words, Paul Celan

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