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Andrew Field
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Collected Poems by Ron Padgett
Andrew Field reviews Ron Padgett’s Collected Poems today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Reveal: All Shapes and Sizes by Bruce Covey
Andrew Field reviews Bruce Covey’s Reveal: All Shapes and Sizes today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Uncanny Valley by Jon Woodward
Andrew Field reviews Jon Woodward’s Uncanny Valley today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Orphan Hours by Stanley Plumly
Like a blue jay, thrush, or white-chested robin, darting in last light into leaves, twigs, or sky – after the rain, say, but before evening falls, when dark follows a darkening, Stanley Plumly’s Orphan Hours shows us moments rife with…
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In Beauty Bright by Gerald Stern
Having never read Gerald Stern’s poetry before, I took This Time: New and Selected Poems out from the library. The book won the National Book Award in 1998, and it deserves it; the poems are consistently charming, witty, disarmingly beautiful,…
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“Bewilderment: New Poems and Translations” by David Ferry
David Ferry’s Bewilderment: New Poems and Translations is a necessary book. I was sad when I finished it, and hungry to return and re-read. Still, the phrase “poems and translations” seems unfortunate. In Bewilderment, the two genres – the writing…