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Articles tagged "poetry" Books FeatureNicholson Baker’s Enthusiasms and Passionate Obsessionsby Christopher Guerin[4.Nov.09] :. Nicholson Baker writes from his enthusiasms, which are many and ever changing. Among other things, his books have focused on sex, John Updike, public libraries, and pacifism and World War II. His latest, The Anthologist, is his love letter to poetry. NewsVoices of the past, in shimmering new translationsby John Timpane [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)][30.Mar.09] :. Ours is a great era of translation. It has been going for at least two decades now, bringing fiction, drama, and especially poetry into English for our times. Paula Dietz edits the much-respected...  TV ReviewAmerican Experience: Walt Whitmanby Cynthia Fuchs[15.Apr.08] :. Like its subject, Mark Zwonitzer's Walt Whitman is grand and particular.  Books ReviewProust Was a Neuroscientist by Jonah Lehrerby John Timpane [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)][12.Feb.08] :. Did you know there was science in poetry? Featured Article Books ReviewThe Complete Poetry: A Bilingual Edition by César Vallejoby John Timpane [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)][26.Oct.07] :. Today Vallejo, the bard of Peru, has a place among the finest of his century's poets.  Books ReviewBronx Biannual by Miles Marshall Lewis [Editor]by Rachel Smucker[14.Aug.07] :. With his selection of stories and mix of old and young Bronx-based writers, Lewis is exposing the side of the BX that many are too blinded with stereotypes to see. The Maytrees by Annie Dillardby Michael Antman[20.Jul.07] :. The image of an enormous sack stuffed with love and sagging from a hat rack is not one of Dillard’s finest moments. The Age of Huts (compleat) by Ron Sillimanby Andrew Ervin [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)][5.Jul.07] :. If The Age of Huts provides any indication, we're witnessing the development of what is sure to be a defining literary project of the postmodern era. Songs for the Dancing Chicken by Emily Schultzby N. A. Hayes[20.Jun.07] :. The distance between one's self and the person snuggly sleeping next to us is often cruel and crushing. Edwin Arlington Robinson: A Poets Life by Scott Donaldsonby Patrick Kurp [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)][31.May.07] :. Donaldson sets out to rescue Robinson from his detractors and his admirers alike. Domestic Violence: Poems by Eavan Bolandby Katie Haegele [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)][11.May.07] :. Much of Boland's fifth volume of poems, is explicitly about Ireland -- its quiet domestic scenes tinged with malice, its relatively recent experience of modernity, its daffodil-filled springs, its ghosts. The Book of Repulsive Women and Other Poems by Djuna Barnesby John Sears[28.Jan.04] :. Barnes writes in a curiously anachronistic style, in which content jars against form, as if children's nursery rhymes were refilled with material purged by centuries of prurient censorship, and made vibrant, living things again. |
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