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Monthly Archives: December 2010
There are two levels of poets in America
It sometimes seems that there are two levels of poets in America: the famous who have been the Poet Laureate and/or have won the Pulitzer Prize and/or National Book Award, whose books sell from a large publisher with a major … Continue reading
Top 2010 poetry books, proclaimed by Amazon & The New Yorker
Amazon.com Top Ten Poetry Books of 2010 TEN GREAT POETRY COLLECTIONS OF 2010 posted by Paul Muldoon @ The New Yorker December 16, 2010 Eleven Best Poetry Books of 2010 posted by Dan Chiasson @ The New Yorker December 6, … Continue reading
How To Review A Book Without Reading It
How To Review A Book Without Reading It Gawker The Onion’s A.V. Club has forthrightly apologized after discovering that one of their writers wrote a review of a book without reading it. Because it hadn’t been published yet. How’d the … Continue reading
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Identity Parade
Books of the Year: Poetry An exciting new band of names is causing a stir By Stephen Knight – The Independent 12/12/10 In a year which saw new books from three doyens of English-language poetry – Seamus Heaney, Les Murray … Continue reading
Traveling Light
Traveling Light Linda Pastan – W. W. Norton & Company -January 31, 2010 Traveling Light I’m only leaving you for a handful of days, but it feels as though I’ll be gone forever— the way the door closes Read rest … Continue reading
To not know a poet’s book is to not know the poet as a whole
I’m disturbed that, increasingly, people are becoming acquainted with poets only by reading their poems on the Internet. And then, after reading say five or six poems, they say, “There, now I know the poet’s work. I don’t have to … Continue reading
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Huffington Post’s 17 Most Important Poetry Books of Fall 2010
The 17 Most Important Poetry Books of Fall 2010 – Anis Shivani – Huffington Post December 15, 2010 Fall 2010 has been a great season for poetry. There are important retrospectives of H. L. Hix’s remarkable career and that of … Continue reading
TONIGHT NO POETRY WILL SERVE
There’s this possibly-futile geeky dream that I’ve had for a while….it’s one of compiling a list of all of the poetry books (particularly those by individual American poets not published by P.O.D. or vanity presses) put out each month. I … Continue reading
