Eric Fishman

Poetry Review: “Outside” — Poetry and Prose of French Writer André du Bouchet.

July 5, 2020
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Take the poems slowly, enjoy the Cage-y silences, the concentrated words as they appear.

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Critics Lab: Our Goal — To Nurture Young Arts Reviewers of the Future

August 26, 2019
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This is the first in a series of pages in which in one of our critics, working with a young person, comes up with an arts review.

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Music Preview: Music as Metaphor — A Far Cry, a Physicist, and a Composer Reflect on “Gravity”

April 11, 2019
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The music swelled as the early universe spun …

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Poetry Review: “Casting Deep Shade” — On Humanity and the Beech Tree

March 21, 2019
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C.D. Wright has woven a poetic text that mirrors the tangled intimacy between humans and the beech, in all of its violence, its confusion, and its beauty.

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Poetry Review: Poems, Not Artifacts — “New Poets of Native Nations” and a “Poets Playlist” at the Peabody

November 21, 2018
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Editor Heidi E. Erdrich has brought together a richly varied selection of poems, chosen from first collections of poetry written by twenty-one Native poets since the year 2000.

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Poetry Review: “Pan Tadeusz: The Last Foray in Lithuania” — A Playful Polish Epic

October 17, 2018
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In his exhilarating translation of Pan Tadeusz, Bill Johnston captures Adam Mickiewicz’s wild fluctuations of register and brilliant associative riffs. The volume recently won the 2019 National Translation Award in Poetry.

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