william logan
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Ponsot’s Patience
The poet Marie Ponsot is a late-blooming ninety-five. For the New York Times Book Review, William Logan reviews her new Collected Poems (Knopf), and follows her arc from early “secondhand Tolkein,” to a letting go of “hollow immensities.” “We read such…
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Guilty Knowledge, Guilty Pleasure: The Dirty Art of Poetry by William Logan
Zach Savich reviews William Logan’s Guilty Knowledge, Guilty Pleasure: The Dirty Art of Poetrytoday in Rumpus Poetry.
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Does Poetry Matter?
Yesterday’s New York Times posed this question to poetry superstars Tracy K. Smith, Martin Espada, William Logan, Paul Muldoon, Sandra Beasley, Patrick Rosal, and our own David Biespiel. Whether by “educat[ing] the senses,” combatting irony, or “ritualiz[ing] human life,” suffice…
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Poetry’s Dirty Secret
The dirty secret of poetry is that it is loved by some, loathed by many, and bought by almost no one. Is poetry still valuable? William Logan thinks so, and tells us why in an essay in last weekend’s New York…