Poetry

Poetry Review: “What Comes from the Night” — Witnessing Tiny Secret Lives

December 10, 2024
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“What Comes from the Night’ testifies to John Taylor’s complex bond with nature, a generous alliance that includes moments of introspection and melancholy.

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Poetry Review: “Falsework” — Poems That Leave Room for the Reader’s Echo

October 6, 2024
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Time and again, Alice Fogel’s poems’ subtractions have a purifying effect, showing us a landscape or an architecture we hadn’t guessed was there.

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Book Review: The Music Is You — August Kleinzahler’s “A History of Western Music”

September 24, 2024
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August Kleinzahler’s “A History of Western Music” will be a special treat for poetry readers who also appreciate music in all its forms and genres.

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Poetry Review: “The Collected Poems of Delmore Schwartz” — A Necessary and Welcome Gift

April 2, 2024
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Let’s hope that this book will provide an overdue and well deserved third act for the poetry of one of the twentieth century’s poetic masters.

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Book Review: The Poetic Vision of Larry Eigner — A Gravitational Aesthetic Force Field

February 7, 2024
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Jennifer Bartlett’s fine biography is a capstone to a steady solidification of respect for this innovative poet’s art and legacy.

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Poetry Review: Ishion Hutchinson’s “School of Instructions” — Lured Through History

November 23, 2023
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Jamaican poet Ishion Hutchinson’s New-World, nonwhite perspective claims its own stake in a history that we have come too much to associate with its imperialist heavyweights.

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Poetry Review: Ann Lauterbach’s “Door” — Opening the Doors of Perception

September 15, 2023
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Poet Ann Lauterbach’s eleventh book contains a challenging invitation: poems that offer fresh perceptions of life’s beautiful enigmas.

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Poetry Review: John Mulrooney’s “Spooky Action” — The Primal Playfulness of Existence

August 28, 2023
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“Spooky Action” succeeds at its ‘unreasonable’ mission — to supply poetry that sears the mind, charms the heart, and uplifts the spirit.

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Poetry Review: Robert Desnos’s “Night of Loveless Nights” — Far From Ephemeral

June 16, 2023
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A reprint from 50 years ago, this small book brings to the English-speaking world a strategic introduction to the work of a major French poet of the twentieth century.

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Weekly Feature: Poetry at The Arts Fuse

March 30, 2023
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Here’s this week’s poem, “Second Spring Morning”.

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