Books
Reader's Diary: The Monastery Door Is Open
Pierre Reverdy’s novel The Thief of Talant is not a novel at all, but a long poem or sequence with elusive narrative underpinnings.
Pierre Reverdy
Books
Reader’s Diary: Pierre Reverdy’s ‘The Song of the Dead’
I daresay Pierre Reverdy is the favorite French poet among American poets. But how well do we really know his work?
Poetry
A Baker’s Dozen: Recommendations of Poetry Published in 2013
By Michael Leong, Albert Mobilio, Barry Schwabsky, and John Yau
Books
John Ashbery's Arthur Rimbaud
It’s to be expected that when America’s greatest living poet publishes a translation of one of the greatest and — to borrow a phrase from the titles of old forgotten anthologies — best-loved poets of world modernity, readers would take notice. And they have, so maybe I should think twice before addi