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Review: "Vagabond Dawns," by Carolyn Mary Kleefeld
Posted by mamta on Friday, November 20, 2009 (16:14:59)
This collection of more than 100 short poems evokes images ranging from cyclical rhythms of nature to the passions and complexities of love to the timeless spiritual potentialities of the human mind and soul....
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Raymond Carver: Collected Stories, The Library of America
Posted by mamta on Wednesday, November 18, 2009 (05:31:57)
This Library of America volume pulls together a career-spanning collection of his short fiction, in which from first to last Carver wrote about the lives of the defeated with a distinctive empathy, even - or perhaps especially - when his characters were at their most self-destructive...
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Review: The Letters of TS Eliot
Posted by mamta on Tuesday, November 17, 2009 (05:02:22)
This is not an enjoyable collection. Eliot is a fluent letter-writer but he reserved his genius for poetry,
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BOOKS: 'Not Much Fun: The Lost Poems of Dorothy Parker'
Posted by mamta on Sunday, November 15, 2009 (14:34:46)
Given the astringent quality of so much of Parker's verse, it is not surprising to learn that her long life was not a happy one — indeed eponymously not much fun — replete with sad childhood, alcoholism, abortions, suicide attempts and betrayals by friends and lovers. Not everyone liked her and she may well have been her own worst enemy, but when Lillian Hellman is your best friend, who needs enemies? ...
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Review: THE ART STUDENT’S WAR By Brad Leithauser
Posted by mamta on Sunday, November 15, 2009 (08:42:33)
Poetry News: Over the course of three productive decades, Brad Leithauser has published six novels and about a half-dozen collections of poetry.
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Review: Varaha — The Secret of Evolution by Gopi Warrier
Posted by mamta on Sunday, November 15, 2009 (04:37:06)
All the same, this collection reminded me of nothing so much as a collection of Malayalam verse, from some years back, where marriage greetings and eulogies rubbed cheek with poems celebrating events and some debating philosophical questions, the poems varying between the good and the absolutely banal.
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Review: THE GREAT FLOOD, by Frank Spignese
Posted by mamta on Sunday, November 15, 2009 (04:22:15)
Poetry News: THE GREAT FLOOD, by Frank Spignese. Printed Matter Press, 2009, 108 pp., $20 Frank Spignese's short book of poetry, "The Great Flood," comes with an audio CD of Frank reading pieces from the collection.
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Review: 140 Characters: A Style Guide for the Short Form,Dom Sagolla
Posted by mamta on Saturday, November 14, 2009 (05:29:28)
But the book, despite its short writing time, suffers from something worse: the fragmented writing style itself. Only a sentence or two is devoted to an idea at any one time. It reminds me of the “stream of consciousness” method of writing, which can work well in fiction and drama but doesn’t do well with non-fiction and guides like 140 Characters
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Review: Old Woman by the Sea
Posted by mamta on Saturday, November 14, 2009 (05:15:00)
Poetry News: Through her book of poetry, Old Woman by the Sea, Doris Kovach creates a word-portrait of one of these insightful strolls.
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A Century of Poetry - Review
Posted by mamta on Saturday, November 14, 2009 (05:10:03)
Poetry News: With the handover of the laureateship, the Oxford poetry professorship debacle, the 30th anniversary of Radio 4's Poetry Please and a major promotion on BBC television, poetry has been much in the news this year.
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When Autumn Leaves Sing: True Love Abides Because of Erroneous Love...
Posted by mamta on Friday, November 13, 2009 (18:15:51)
Poetry News: Because of its expansive array of themes, this collection of poetry will appeal to all readers.Yuki Nishijima is a native of Japan who currently resides in Laguna Niguel, California.
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When Autumn Leaves Sing: True Love Abides Because of Erroneous Love...
Posted by mamta on Friday, November 13, 2009 (18:15:22)
Poetry News: Because of its expansive array of themes, this collection of poetry will appeal to all readers.Yuki Nishijima is a native of Japan who currently resides in Laguna Niguel, California.
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Review: Expressway
Posted by mamta on Friday, November 13, 2009 (08:00:35)
Poetry News: It's barely been a month since Sina Queyras found out that her most recent volume of poetry, Expressway, was nominated for a Governor General's Award, but the Montreal-based writer seems pretty unfazed.
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Review: "Amergin Again" by Joe Eldredge,
Posted by mamta on Thursday, November 12, 2009 (07:17:21)
"Amergin Again" is Mr. Eldredge's latest chapbook, a 21-poem collection he describes as part of his work "connecting the poet gods of Sumer to the bards of the North and maybe to the man who wrote those fine plays." The description is at least as much caution sign as welcome mat....
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Review: Writers Block: Poetry and Food for Thought
Posted by mamta on Thursday, November 12, 2009 (04:48:08)
Poetry News: Writers Block: Poetry and Food for Thought is written by three authors, Chance Arradondo, K. Caprice Arradondo, and Carlotta Arradondo, with photographs by Eugene Nichols and Studio Tobechi.
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Review: Literary El Paso By Marcia Hatfield Daudistel
Posted by mamta on Wednesday, November 11, 2009 (04:59:17)
Literary El Paso includes 63 writers with strong local ties, and the selections focus on life in the “Sun City.” The chronology and subject matter range widely, from settling the area at the end of the Pleistocene Era through a 19th-century packed with bandits, outlaws, and Mexican revolutionaries to the Chicano movement that gave El Paso an internationally respected literary voice. ...
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Review: Colors of a Man: Tribute to African-American Men
Posted by mamta on Tuesday, November 10, 2009 (17:26:55)
Colors of a Man, Tribute to African American Men is poetry about African American men and the women who love them. From everyday Joe's to CEO's, African American men are compared to the great masterpiece paintings. President Barack Obama is one othe many historical African-American men whom the author pays homage to....
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Review: RECALL: NEW AND COLLECTED POEMS 1967-2008, by H.R. Coursen
Posted by mamta on Monday, November 09, 2009 (16:20:03)
Moreover, Coursen’s poems carry a salubrious invisible that seems often absent even in the most precisely stated postwar verse. As Robert Graves observed, true poets are born, not made, and here we’ve had one right in our neighborhood these past 40-odd years. Even if the price seems steep, this book is several kinds of large enough to warrant it ...
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Review: Venom and Nectar, Stefan Lowry
Posted by mamta on Monday, November 09, 2009 (15:57:04)
Venom and Nectar explores poetic forms blending story with character, art, history, cultures from the east to the west, haunting backdrops, romantically gothic undertones and ancient spirit. Poems include Voom Voom, Villains and Violins, Constantinople, Ready to Be Red, Hey Mr. Fedora, Children's Canticle, Apollo's Fire Dance, and the thundering opener, Choir....
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Book Review: The Endless String: Poems for Children (and the people...
Posted by mamta on Monday, November 09, 2009 (05:17:46)
Poetry News: "Have you ever pulled the endless string, the one that hangs and can't harm a thing?" Literature - Kids and Teens - Arts - Poetry - Little Jean
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Letters of Ted Hughes edited by Christopher Reid | Book review
Posted by mamta on Sunday, November 08, 2009 (05:30:08)
At well over 700 pages, this is a hefty volume – though just the tip of the iceberg in terms of Hughes's epistolary output – and Christopher Reid deserves much praise for his judicious editing....
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Review: EXILEE AND TEMPS MORTS: Selected Works, by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha.
Posted by mamta on Sunday, November 08, 2009 (04:27:18)
We must be grateful to editor Constance M. Lewallen, and the University of California Press, for bringing us Cha's pre-"Dictee" writing, particularly in light of the fact that there will be no post-"Dictee" writing. In the early years of an artistic and literary career that had delivered much and promised more, Cha was murdered by a stranger in 1982 at the age of 31....
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'Thomas Wolfe, The Magical Campus: University of North Carolina Writings 1971-19
Posted by mamta on Friday, November 06, 2009 (08:01:49)
The Magical Campus collects for the first time the earliest published writings of Thomas Wolfe, the Asheville native son once called “the most promising writer of his generation.” He would have been 109 on October 3. This collection includes poetry, plays, short fiction, essays, speeches and orations, and news articles from his days as a student at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. ...
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Review: The Complete Fairy Tales by Charles Perrault
Posted by mamta on Friday, November 06, 2009 (07:56:58)
This book is filled with some familiar stories, such as Cinderella, Little Red Riding-Hood and Puss in Boots, and some I had not ever come across, such as The History of Griselda and Donkey-Skin....
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