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Tag Archives: reviews
Marvelous Criticism II
From a mailing list I belong to: “Marjorie Perloff thinks that so much depends upon the red wheelbarrow because agriculture is important.”
Posted in Art & Life & Politics, Commonplace Book
Tagged cpb, criticism, critics, marjorie perloff, poetry, reviews
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Marvelous Criticism
I refuse to admit how and why I came to be in the “Letters” section of a television review of a show I’ve never seen (or plan to see), but this bit made it all worthwhile: …the theme song. Good … Continue reading
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Tagged cpb, criticism, reviews, television
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Bill Knott on Robert Hass
I recently ‘fessed up to a friend that I sometimes enjoy William Logan’s vicious reviews. I don’t necessarily agree with the substance of Logan’s criticism—in fact I agree with most of the well-publicized pans—but I admire his verbal facility, his … Continue reading
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Tagged bill knott, criticism, poetry, poets, reviews, robert hass
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Dickman, Schiavo, and Bad Reviews
A post on a mailing list brought my attention to Michael Schiavo’s body-slamming take down of Matthew Dickman’s recent volume of poetry All-American Poem. I don’t have any real problem with negative reviews, though I do find them generally less-than-productive … Continue reading
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Tagged criticism, matthew dickman, michael schiavo, poetics, reviews
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Orgasmic Angina
Via an entertaining article on writing about poetry and the admitted awesomeness of Keats comes this breathless and little-deathless blurb: “Only rarely do lay readers experience poems as a cross between an orgasm and a heart attack.” —David Orr, the … Continue reading
Robert Philen’s Favorite Books and Films – 2007
Thanks to a reference by Reginald Shepherd I discovered Robert Philen’s blog. Why is his name so familiar to me? Anyway, a lot of fun reading to be had there (before I go on, a nod toward his entertaining and … Continue reading