May 2008 Archives
To open one of Charles Simic’s collections of poetry — this is, incredibly, his 19th — is to enter with renewed delight an instantly familiar neighborhood.
[From That Little Something - Charles Simic - Book Review - New York Times]
The poet-critic gets no sympathy, and considering the charge-sheet against him — adversarial, addicted to dicta, motivated by an axe-grindingly acute sense of right and wrong — why would he? He is, in most eyes, a hyphenated hothead.
[From Poetry Foundation: The online home of the Poetry Foundation]
A biographical novel reconstructs Robert Frost’s life.
[From All the Difference]
Helen Vendler’s study of W. B. Yeats demonstrates the flaws that come from trying to ensure the Right Poets are read the Right Way.[From Vendler’s Yeats]
