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Keith Taylor
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| Ghosh delivers a strong argument that our inability to deal with the indisputable fact of climate change is a cultural blank spot, a failure of imagination. It is a strong argument. Early on he writes that "the climate crisis is a ... crisis of cultu ...more | |
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| OK I'll admit it: Since I communicate with Richard regularly and over the last 40 plus years have heard him read on average once (maybe twice) a year, I probably have not spent as much time with the books as I should have. Perhaps I feel I already kn ...more | |
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Hayes has engaged so many things in his poetry, not least of which is the very idea of beauty. I found that the dominant theme of this book, although it is not the one usually referred to. Here's a short review I did a few years ago When I teach conte ...more |
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| This is the third book of Hass essays on poetry. Perhaps it doesn't feel as studied as his first critical book, the masterful "Twentieth Century Pleasures," but Hass's critical instincts, his wide reading, and his absolute passion for his art, keep i ...more | |
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| How could I not love a book where, in a love poem for his wife, Taylor (no relation, by the way) writes, while cataloguing the things he has done with his wife on a given day, "Today we read Keith Taylor's poems & recite them quietly to one another." ...more | |
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| Interesting that I would come to this first book almost a decade after I read her second book, "Incarnadine," which sticks in my mind as such an extraordinary collection, one of the great religious books of poems I have read. Maybe I expected more of ...more | |
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| I have tried to engage with the poems of Wallace Stevens for a very long time, but have not succeeded. I simply react against all that abstract discussion about the relationship between imagination and reality, truth and perception. That, combined wi ...more | |
"This deserves at least a second reading. It's a shape shifter and hard to follow. Part of that is intentional (so says the preface and the translator's note!). But I think it would yield a more consistent, if still fractured, image, with revisiting. "
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""Transcription" is a compact novel exploding with ideas, energy, and emotional connections, even as the vastness of the universe is explored and human connections fray. While some may think that Ben Lerner's writing is pretentious -- as I have labele"
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| I certainly like this book -- and will probably read it again fairly soon. I like books about Opera, and she was able to tie this wonderfully with the current fears of terrorism. My very slight reservation is that somehow I felt the author playing on ...more | |
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