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Monthly Archives: July 2008
famous last words
The title of Catherine Pierce’s 2007 Saturnalia Book Prize winning collection points to the final short section of the book – a series of seven poems, each of which begins with last words attributed to a famous person, from Billy … Continue reading
the graves grow bigger between generations
I always approach a new book of poetry the way one wanders through a foreign city after arriving, weaving through narrow streets and alleys, jet-lagged and happy, enjoying the dreams. Only later do I pull out a map for directions. … Continue reading
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Tagged Donna Pucciani, Higganaum Hill Books, Jared Smith, Robert Penn Warren, Studs Terkel
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the way of the wind
Ken Hada is unequivocally a poet of place, and his poetry is at its best when it clears a space where readers can dwell for a time in “the gypsum hills of northwest Oklahoma and the Ozarks of north Arkansas.” … Continue reading
broken and reset
The arrangement of Broken and Reset makes reading it something like visiting an archaeological excavation: while we don’t do the digging ourselves, we see evidence that it has been done. We stand on the rim of the dig and look … Continue reading
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Tagged Steven Schroeder, University of New Mexico Press, V.B. Price
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all that road going
In All That Road Going, A. G. Mojtabai takes the well-worn tradition of the American road novel and makes it new. By choosing a title and an epigraph from Jack Kerouac, she makes the connection with the tradition explicit. But … Continue reading
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Tagged A.G. Mojtabai, Cheshire Cat, Jack Kerouac, Northwestern University Press, Steven Schroeder
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brotherkeeper and chasing the saints
Poetry and spirituality have long walked the same intellectual pathways, closely bonded cousins, if not quite fraternal twins. The Bible itself contains some of the world’s oldest, best- known poetry. Throughout the ages, great mystics like John of the Cross … Continue reading
painting the borrowed house
In Painting the Borrowed House, Kate Rogers celebrates place without standing still. We move with her poems from becoming lao wei (foreigner) to being at home in “thinking about where / I’ve been and where I’m going next” (60) –even … Continue reading
not exactly job
Nathan Brown’s Not Exactly Job stands in a long tradition of Biblical commentary that is at once conversation and poetry — poetry in conversation with poetry. Don’t be misled by my calling it “commentary.” It is not academic — and … Continue reading