Canny readers can be forgiven for being suspicious of a slim collection of poetry from a successful mainstream novelist in mid-career. Such books are usually either vanity projects, efforts of a publisher to please (and ... Read More »
November 25, 2003 | Filed under: Poetry
The first poem in Crowd of Sounds, Adam Sol’s second poetry collection, presents in miniature the book’s thematic concerns. Entitled “The Calculus of a Man Striking Water in Relation to a Boat Striking Wood, and ... Read More »
November 25, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Poetry
On the night I should have started reading Keith Garebian’s first collection of poetry, Reservoir of Ancestors, I instead went to see Ararat, the film by Atom Egoyan about the Armenian genocide in Turkey (1915-1917). ... Read More »
November 25, 2003 | Filed under: Poetry
Any organizing principle so loosely defined as to comfortably include Milton’s Paradise Lost and a poem about robots clearly derivative of Ted Hughes’ The Iron Man is likely of little to no use for a ... Read More »
November 25, 2003 | Filed under: Poetry
Although not strictly in the tradition of the language poets of the 1970s, Quebecoise poet Nicole Brossard’s work has always been marked by serious language play and Museum of Bone and Water, in an exquisite ... Read More »
November 25, 2003 | Filed under: Poetry
What is the answer?” No answer came. She laughed and said, “In that case what is the question?” (Gertrude Stein) In her debut poetry collection, Question & Answer, Alison Pick takes up Gertrude Stein’s challenge, ... Read More »
November 25, 2003 | Filed under: Poetry
If you write an unflinchingly human portrait of a murderer, are you glamorizing his crimes? That’s the question Lynn Crosbie has posed in four previous poetry collections (most notoriously with her piece of true-crime poetry, ... Read More »
November 25, 2003 | Filed under: Poetry
Alchemy. The word conjures images of medieval laboratories, of quasi-magical transformations, and, perhaps most importantly, of failure. For despite their many important contributions to modern science, the medieval alchemists ultimately failed in their primary goal: ... Read More »
November 20, 2003 | Filed under: Poetry
Careful, Jacqueline Turner’s second poetry collection, is partitioned into nine sections, most of which feature short-line, lower-case poems that form lexical stalactites creeping down the left-hand margin of the page. As random words percolate, the ... Read More »
November 20, 2003 | Filed under: Poetry
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