Poetry
A Brilliant Poetry Star Who Burned Out Too Quickly
Jack Spicer’s poetry can be deeply funny and playful but it has a consistent undercurrent of sadness.
Wesleyan University Press
Books
The Modernist Poet Who Took on Colonialism
Since Aimé Césaire’s death in 2008 at the age of 94, as democracies devolve into autocracies, his Discourse on Colonialism remains prescient about the barbarity that informs civilization.
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Ted Greenwald's Poems Chart Our Connections to the Earth
Greenwald combines a Wordsworthian sense of nature with cartoon-like characters.
Books
The Complex and Passionate Poems of Joseph Ceravolo
Ceravolo worked for most of his life as a civil engineer and brought an outsider sensibility to his poetics.
Books
Learning Little from John Cage's Letters
Some of us didn’t need letters from him, because he trusted us to do what we did without requiring his instruction or encouragement.
Poetry
Sweet Soul Music: Fred Moten’s "The Little Edges"
The title of Fred Moten’s latest collection, The Little Edges, pinpoints the border country where his poetry unfolds.
Poetry
Sense of an Ending: Harvey Shapiro’s A Momentary Glory
When I recall the poet Harvey Shapiro, who died not long before his eighty-ninth birthday in January 2013, I remember having lunch with him on a sweltering August afternoon in 2001, New York City’s hottest day in twenty-five years, or so the radio said.