Criticism

Microreviews: Summer 2003

Nine new poetry collections.

Bleeding, Beading, Trickling

Spar by Karen Volkman. 

  • Noah Eli Gordon

Venus Becomes a Document

Talking Cures by Richard Howard.

  • BK Fischer

As If Washing Might Make It Clean

Paul Muldoon's Moy Sand and Gravel.
 

  • Jenny Ludwig

The Unfinishable Robert Lowell

Opening a window onto the life of a great American poet. 

  • James Longenbach

An Indian Realist in a World of Fiction

On writing Bunker 13.

  • Aniruddha Bahal

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Adam Thorpe’s One-Man Show

Novellist and Mime Street Entertainer of the Year. 

  • James Hynes

Memory’s Lair

Memory, like everything else in the world, can be clumsily used, or unintelligently used, or used for false purposes or in bad faith.

  • Susie Linfield

Situationist Noir

Reading Jean-Patrick Manchette.

  • Jennifer Howard

City Poems

Ten weeks with the East Harlem Poetry Project.

  • Maureen N. McLane

New Pioneers of the American Short Story

Marshall Boswell and Elizabeth Crane.

  • Tom Bissell

A Dutchman with Very Dark Eyes and Hair You Could Call Raven-black

Writing Duke of Egypt.

  • Margriet de Moor

New Poets on the Block

A roundup of first and second books.

  • Stephanie Burt

The Poet at War

The Invasion Handbook by Tom Paulin. 

  • Benjamin Paloff

Taking Measurements of Will and Circumstance

Two new collections from Garrett Kalleberg.

  • Fred Muratori

Microreviews: April/May 2003

Thirteen new poetry collections.

Twenty-first Century Woolf

On The Hours, directed by Stephen Daldry. 

  • Alan A. Stone

Skirting the Issue

French literature is out of touch with social realities.

  • Patrick Erouart-Siad

Celebrating Presence

Recasting the poetry of loss.

  • Tod Marshall

Laughter and Oblivion

Skid by Dean Young.

  • Sarah Manguso

Poetic IDs

Borrowed Love Poems by John Yau.

  • Thomas Fink

The Uncertainty of Knowing

Carl Phillips' Rock Harbor.

  • James Longenbach

Microreviews: February/March 2003

Eight new poetry collections.

Reel Terrorism

Reconsidering Pontecorvo’s The Battle of Algiers.

  • Alan A. Stone
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