Criticism

“Let the World be a Black Poem”

On The Vintage Book of African-American Poetry.

  • Tina Barr

Review: The Promises of Glass

By Michael Palmer.

  • Andrew Zawacki

Review: Letters to Wendy’s

By Joe Wenderoth. 

  • John D’Agata

Microreviews: April/May 2001

Seven new poetry collections.

Political Football

  • Alan A. Stone

Happy World

What Lyn Hejinian's poetry tells us about chance, fortune, and pleasure.

  • Marjorie Perloff

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A Comedy with Animals

Ernest Hemingway, Jane Kendall Mason, and "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber"

  • Alane S. Mason

Review: The Lecturer’s Tale

By James Hynes. 

  • Eliza Nichols

Review: Kingdom of Shadows

By Alan Furst.

  • Lev Raphael

Review: Gob’s Grief

By Chris Adrian. 

  • Drake Bennett

Review: Microcosms

By Claudio Magris.

  • Justin Coffin

Review: Purgatorio

Translated by W. S. Merwin.

  • Brett Foster

The Ethical Poetic

Review: Utopic and Civilian Histories.

  • Tod Marshall

Contemporary American Poetry

Review: Regions of Unlikeness and Poetic Culture. 

  • Andrew Osborn

Microreviews: February/March 2001

Eight new collections of poetry. 

Credit the Director

Dancer in the Dark, directed by Lars von Trier. 

  • Alan A. Stone

Genre Trouble

Why can’t critics take John Crowley seriously?

  • James Hynes

Review: Loving Graham Greene and An American Outrage

By Gloria Emerson and G. K. Wuori.

  • Jennifer Howard

Review: The Forger

By Paul Watkins.

  • John Marks

Review: The Big Hunger

By John Fante.

  • Rob Spillman

Mortally Wounded Creatures

Review: The Collected Poems of Stanley Kunitz. 

  • Stephanie Burt

Language at the End of its Tether

Review: Waldner and Wise.

  • Cole Swensen

Vaudevillians of the Void

Review: Wenderoth and Friedlander. 

  • Max Winter

Review: Karmic Traces

By Eliot Weinberger. 

  • John Palattella
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