American poetry
In praising poetry’s power, Ada Limón leaves clarity—and craft—behind.
“Data Mind” contains a spiritual blessing — it teaches us how to praise life in a universe that is so broken it is determined to erase our humanity.
The overall effect is one of a genial, superficial club lecture on reading and writing poetry, punctuated by Frost’s Greatest Hits.
Warren Slesinger’s approach to poetry is experimental but skillful as well as entertaining.
This book captures — beautifully — poet John Ashbery’s youth and dreams and struggles.
Paterson is a movie about how ordinary it may be to see the world in a grain of sand.
The Hatred of Poetry claims to explore our culture’s rampant animosity toward the entire art form.
Galway Kinnell served as the Poet Laureate of Vermont and penned a number of poems, which often took the form of pastoral ramblings, that celebrated his appreciation of the rural life.
I wouldn’t be writing this review or asking you to read this book if I didn’t believe that McLane were up to something far more radical and also far more difficult to reckon with—something I am not even sure I can account for. The most significant quality of the poetry in “World Enough” is a profound and unapologetic ambiguity.
Arts Remembrance: Poet Philip Levine — A Voice of Muscle and Grit
Last Saturday, poet Philip Levine died at the age of 87 in Fresco, California. Here is a reprint of an Arts Fuse appreciation of the writer, originally posted in May of last year.
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