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American poetry

Theater Review: “Robert Frost: This Verse Business” — Friendly to a Fault

The overall effect is one of a genial, superficial club lecture on reading and writing poetry, punctuated by Frost’s Greatest Hits.

By: Jim Kates Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: American poetry, Gordon Clapp, Jim Kates, Robert Frost, Robert Frost: This Verse Business

Poetry Review: “A Word For It” — Poetry, From out of the Dictionary

Warren Slesinger’s approach to poetry is experimental but skillful as well as entertaining.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Books, Review Tagged: A Word For It, American poetry, Dos Madres Press, Ed Meek, Poetry, Warren Slesinger

Book Review: “The Songs We Know Best” — The Youth of Poet John Ashbery

This book captures — beautifully — poet John Ashbery’s youth and dreams and struggles.

By: Roberta Silman Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: American poetry, biography, Farrar, John Ashbery, John Ashbery’s Early Life, Karin Roffman, Straus and Giroux, The Songs We Know Best

Film Review: “Paterson” — A Very Ordinary Visionary

Paterson is a movie about how ordinary it may be to see the world in a grain of sand.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: American poetry, Jim Jarmusch, Neil Giordano, Paterson

Book Review: “The Hatred of Poetry” — Thinking the Worst About Verse

The Hatred of Poetry claims to explore our culture’s rampant animosity toward the entire art form.

By: Matt Hanson Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: American poetry, Ben Lerner, Poetry, The Hatred of Poetry

Fuse 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.

By: Robert Israel Filed Under: Books, Commentary, Featured Tagged: American poetry, Philip Levine, Poetry

Arts Remembrance: Galway Kinnell — “The Cadence of Vanishing”

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.

By: Robert Israel Filed Under: Books, Featured Tagged: American poetry, Galway Kinnell, Poetry, The Book of Nightmares, Vermont

Poetry Review: Portrait of a Predicament

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.

By: Daniel Bosch Filed Under: Books, Review Tagged: American poetry, feminism, Maureen N. McLane, World Enough

Fuse Poetry Commentary: Verse Into Verse — “Poetry” Awards Poetry a Prize

In the future, when a literary historian looks at the long-forgotten Lilly Prize and wonders what did its selection panels get right, it will be recognized that it had been sensitive and intelligent enough to realize the beauty of David Ferry’s poetry, an oeuvre which is sure to grow in stature. By Daniel Bosch. In […]

By: Daniel Bosch Filed Under: Books Tagged: American poetry, David Ferry, Poetry, Poetry Foundation, Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, translation

Poetry: On “Falling Back”— Six Poems Published in The New York Times Op-Ed Page

Was Sunday, November 7th some sort of equinox? Were there sunspots? Whatever the cause, six poems, to my delight and surprise, appeared in the Op-Ed pages of The New York Times as a feature called “Falling Back.” I’d like to take this opportunity to editorialize about these six poems, five of which were penned by […]

By: Daniel Bosch Filed Under: Books Tagged: American poetry, Derek Walcott, James Tate, Louise Glück, Mary Oliver, new-york-times, Poetry, Vijay Seshadri, W. S. Merwin

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