Take Three: 3

by Jennifer Barber, Mark Bibbins, Maggie Nelson

Selected by Askold Melnyczuk and the poetry panel of AGNI magazine, Take three: 3 is the third in an important annual series designed to launch the work of new poets.

Genres: Poetry

96 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 1998

About the author

Jennifer Barber teaches English and Creative Writing at Suffolk University. She is founding and current editor of Salamander: a magazine for poetry, fiction, & memoirs. She has been the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, a St. Botolph Grant, a Heinrich Boll Cottage Residency, and a Kore Press First Book Award.

Reviews

[Bryn · Rating 4 out of 5]

I got this from the library for Maggie Nelson, but of the three poets included in this book, I liked Jennifer Barber the most. I must get it again, or my own copy, so I can read it more slowly, as there were many I liked, but it felt too fast to truly get inside of them. Barber writes a great deal about the concrete world, which I love, but I also loved a few of Mark Bibbins' poems, and some of Nelson's although I think I like her prose works more than her poetry.

[Brendan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Barber's section is more my style than the other two.

Notable:
"Nights" - Barber
"Letter" - Barber
"Motel Story" - Nelson

The loneliness of me with you...
- Barber, "Today"

Nights are lost in
the alleys, the ringing phones.
- Barber, "The City We Left Separately"