Reversing the Spell: New and Selected Poems

Poetry;  August 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ...Reversing the Spell: New and Selected Poems, by Eleanor Wilner. Copper Canyon Press. $16.oo. It often...formidable alternative and advance. Thought occurs in her poems, and her poems have definite subjects, not infrequently the sort of big...

BOOK REIVEW: Carl Sandburg's 'Poems for Children...'

University Wire;  May 12, 1999 ;     581 words ......CHICAGO, Ill. -- As the introduction to Poems for Children Nowhere Near Old Enough to...Poets are sometimes forgetful. They write poems and, if these verses are ahead of their...happened to this collection of children's poems by renowned poet Carl Sandburg. After Sandburg...

Thomas Jefferson's Scrapbooks: Poems of Nation, Family, and Romantic Love...

Early American Literature;  June 22, 2007 ;     700+ words ...Thomas Jefferson's Scrapbooks: Poems of Nation, Family, and Romantic Love Collected...out his favorite newspaper articles and poems and pasting them onto the backs of old...Jefferson's notebooks contain some 884 poems, roughly divided into one volume of political...

Pleasure of poetry.(Blushing: Expressions of Love in Poems and Letters)(Is...

Teacher Librarian;  October 1, 2004 ;     249 words ...Blushing: Expressions of love in poems and letters. Collected by Paul Janeczko...0-439-53056-3. Grades 7-12 A lovely collection of poems about love from different times and poets...remembering past loves. Is this forever, or what? Poems & paintings from Texas. Selected by...

Poetry that makes a point John Gross considers two anthologies in which...

The Sunday Telegraph London;  October 14, 2001 ;     700+ words ......99 ( pounds 1.99 p&p) 0870 155 7222 101 Poems by 101 Women ed by Germaine Greer Faber...ambitious anthology, consisting of some 400 poems, and saddled it with an unfortunate title...however. Instead, Motion has grouped his poems into 10 sections, each devoted to a large...

Langan, Steve. Notes on Exile & Other Poems.(Book review)

Prairie Schooner;  June 22, 2007 ;     700+ words ...Langan, Steve. Notes on Exile & Other Poems. Backwaters Press. In his debut collection...Always lurking in the background of these poems was a kind of existential anxiety about...yet so insensible. The speakers of these poems often struggle to rise to the challenge...

Tears For Water: Songbook of Poems & Lyrics

Black Issues Book Review;  March 1, 2005 ;     480 words ...Tears For Water: Songbook of Poems & Lyrics by Alicia Keys, G.P Putnam...how different are her lyrics from her poems? How much of the real Keys is pressed...never meant to see? Unsurprisingly, the poems are rather songlike. In fact, if it weren...

Rereading Ammons's long poems.(A. R. Ammons )(Critical Essay)

The American Poetry Review;  May 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ...NEARLY ALL THE BOOK-LENGTH POEMS OF A. R. Ammons were written on adding...of its ongoing movement. Ammons's long poems are journals of a particular sort, the...prolific poet. He wrote book after book of poems of various lengths, one collection (The...

From the political to the poetical This new edition is the ideal guide to...

The Sunday Telegraph London;  August 31, 2003 ;     700+ words ...The Poems of Andrew Marvell ed by Nigel Smith Longman...LOVERS of English poetry do not love the poems of Andrew Marvell, but it was not always...would share his disdainful aestheticism. The poems of Marvell that broke free of politics, especially...

The Higher Self in Christopher Brennan's Poems: Esotericism, Romanticism,...

Australian Literary Studies;  April 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ...The Higher Self in Christopher Brennan's Poems: Esotericism, Romanticism, Symbolism, by...are only a few of those who have written poems addressed to Brennan, or about him. Several...and there is no annotated edition of the poems. European interest in Brennan has never...

Poems Seven: New and Complete Poetry

Poetry;  May 1, 2003 ;     685 words ...Poems Seven: New and Complete Poetry, by Alan Dugan. Seven Stories Press. $35.00. Running to more than four hundred pages, Poems Seven is a substantial collection, weighty in its content...those of his six previous collections, beginning with 1961's Poems One. Like his poems, Dugan's book titles are ...

New Poems by Emily Dickinson Gleaned From Her Letters

NPR All Things Considered;  June 24, 1993 ;     700+ words ......summer, the publication of nearly 500 new poems by Emily Dickinson. They'll be presented...into a book available in the fall. The poems were discovered by an English professor...poet's missing manuscripts; he found these poems hiding in plain sight in Emily Dickinson...

A Poet Duly Noted.(The Complete Poems of William Empson)

The Nation;  December 31, 2001 ;     700+ words ...THE COMPLETE POEMS OF WILLIAM EMPSON. Edited by John Haffenden...95. The English edition of The Complete Poems of William Empson was reviewed by Frank...Empson liked to append his own notes to his poems, and even as a young man, he asked when...

Unfortunately, It Was Paradise: Selected Poems

Journal of Third World Studies;  April 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......Unfortunately, It Was Paradise: Selected Poems. Translated and edited by Munir Akash and...to Mural (2000), and it includes three poems from before 1986. It is the most recent...English translations of Mahmoud Darwish's poems. Published in various literary magazines...

Breath: Poems and Letters

Artforum;  January 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ...Breath: Poems and Letters, by Antonia Pozzi, translated...afforded her; she wrote more than three hundred poems, none published in her lifetime; she died...perhaps misleading-to read her death into the poems, to hear in each a "not yet, not quite yet...