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May 25th, 2011
The Hokum of Her Clothes
Like Whitman, Laux’s work is the poetry of accrual. Like a snowman, it gains girth as it rolls along. …more
March 30th, 2011
And Then Lapsed Ordinary
Heaney’s phrasings boast fewer pyrotechnics, and his topics veer toward the meditative, the mournful, and the missing. …more
December 22nd, 2010
Hammer Is the Prayer of the Poor and the Dying
For [Christian] Wiman, form is the fire his feet are held to. It’s the syntactic embers that burn, the linguistic flames that flare. At no point does Wiman let the reader forget she is reading poetry. …more
November 3rd, 2010
A Dialogue at the Core of Her Being
In No Surrender, Ai successfully blends personal autobiographical poems with her trademark dramatic monologues, making for a truly original text—a kind of personified hybridity—that is both haunting and humorous …more
August 27th, 2010
