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Saturday, March 31, 2012

Linda Rogers...

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Victoria's former poet laureate comes by her artistic talents honestly. Her granddad's cousins were Gerard Manley Hopkins and the ...
Thursday, March 8, 2012

Linda Rogers….

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Victoria's former poet laureate comes by her artistic talents honestly. Her grandfather's cousins were Gerard Manley Hopkins and th...
Monday, March 5, 2012

Libby Scheier...

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As well as a very fine poet, Scheier was a fascinating, occasionally volatile woman. Story has it she nearly decapitated a lover with a...
Sunday, February 26, 2012

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e.e. cummings. Contrary to popular wisdom it was not cummings who chose to spell his name in lowercase, but his publisher. And as Norman F...
Sunday, February 12, 2012

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“Sunday Morning” - a poem to rival Eliot’s “The Wasteland” - and “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird” featured prominently in Stevens’ ...
Saturday, February 4, 2012

Derek Walcott...

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In 1989 Derek Walcott flew to London where he received the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry, the first for a Commonwealth citizen. During his c...
Saturday, June 4, 2011

W.H. Auden...

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Auden had a wonderfully dry sense of humor, as evident in this remark about an assignment he took on in December 1964: "To record an o...
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David Godkin
As reviewers, we naturally present our biases as strengths. If we’re paying attention we’ll also recognize anything overdone or done in ignorance of the larger historical and aesthetic frame in which both poetry and criticism exist is likely to do disservice to both. Even then we're more likely to miss more than we catch, appreciate less those poems worthy of praise, while elevating others beyond their genuine deserts. My own biases in poetry lean towards compression, dense allusive imagery, dissociative leaps in meaning, lines rich in personality and driven by strong purpose or intentionality. Naturally, these represent a very small part of the broad range of tastes and expectations through which any book might be filtered. Uppermost must be our sympathies for the poet whose satisfactions when we get it right must almost inevitably be tempered by an even greater patience when we get it wrong.
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