Article: Utopic.(Book Review)

Utopic. By Claudia Keelan. Farmington, Maine: Alice James Books. Winner 2000 Beatrice Hawley Award. $11.95 (pa.)

Are things turning? Or is Claudia Keelan's new collection of poems entitled Utopic a glorious aberration in the American poetry world of the new millenium? Of course it isn't as if the poems came from nowhere. There are still the Language poets, but they make the materiality of language primary as Keelan does not. There is still the projective verse of Charles Olson though Keelan diverts subtly from composition by field. There is still Jorie Graham whose philosophic surfaces remain just surfaces. And Rimbaud has never left. Claudia Keelan has never ...

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