Recently in Print Poetry Category
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]
Richard Newman has spent the past thirteen years working to keep St. Louis' oldest literary magazine alive. It has not been an easy task.
For more than 50 years, Geoffrey Hill has written a pinch-mouthed, grave-digger’s poetry. His rich and allusive books are normally greeted by praise from critics and bewilderment from readers.
[From Living With Ghosts]
Poems from four decades by an author who was uprooted in the struggle against apartheid. [From Needing No Weatherman]
Expressions of love in poetry have been found since before the ancient Greeks. From John Milton to Jaime Sabines to Stanley Kunitz, W.S. Merwin showcases poems that have successfully reckoned with a feeling that is beyond reckoning.
[From Who do you love?]
Dorothy Parker was celebrated for both caustic wit and brevity. But her work has now become embroiled in a caustic yet far from brief court case that returns to trial in Manhattan today.
Mary Ellen Solt, Poet of Words and Shapes, Dead at 86:
Mary Ellen Solt was an American poet known for helping disseminate the art of concrete poetry, which marries words and typography to produce works in which the verbal and the visual are inextricably intertwined.
In The New York Times, Nick Tosches says of Allessandro Barricos's new translation of the Iliad: "[It] is not heroic. It is not much of anything. This is a shame ... a misrepresentation of something great." Ouch!
(Via The New York Times.)
The Poetic Voice -- June 23, 2006: "We interrupt our regularly scheduled broadcast to bring you a new reading and conversation with Donald Hall who has been named Poet Laureate of the United States by the Library of Congress.
