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Tag Archives: Poetry
Gary Snyder in New York
This autumn Counterpoint Press, heir of the beat- and Japanese-inflected North Point Press of Berkeley, founded by Jack Shoemaker in 1980, brings back Gary Snyder’s Riprap and Cold Mountain Poems in a lovely reissue, as well as a twentieth anniversary edition of Snyder’s summative The Practice of the Wild, with a new introduction by the […]
“An Interview with Atropos,” by Wislawa Szymborska
This fall’s bonanza of Polish literature continues with new translations of the Vermeer of modern poetry, Wislawa Szymborska. Szymborska was born in 1923 in Prowent, Poland. Five collections of her poems have been published in English. She received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1996. This poem is translated by Clare Cavanagh and the great […]
“Break the Glass,” by Jean Valentine
Little Star welcomes the appearance of Break the Glass, an enigmatic and limpid new book from Jean Valentine. Some of our favorite poems from Break the Glass are available on line: “In Prison” and “Hawkins Stable” in The New Yorker “The Whitewashed Walls” at Copper Canyon Press “Time is Matter Here” on Poetry Daily One […]
Gjertrud Schnackenberg returns!
After a hiatus of nearly ten years, during which she published no poems that this reader could find, we receive this searing, soaring new book. As always Schnackenberg’s poems are meticulously constructed and ornately referential: they inhabit their metaphors like a mote suspended in air. But in Heavenly Questions Schnackenberg’s poems achieve a new degree […]
Don Paterson’s “Rain”
Today Don Paterson’s new book “Rain,” slim and buoyant, appears with this near-perfect poem: CORRECTIVES The shudder in my son’s left hand he cures with one touch from his right, two fingertips laid feather-light to still his pen. He understands the whole man must be his own brother for no man is himself alone; though […]
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Letters by Anthony Hecht: In the Atelier
A heaping plateful of correspondence by poet Anthony Hecht is served up by Jonathan F. S. Post in the current issue of The Hopkins Review. Thanks to the editors for allowing us to pass on three letters that offer a glimpse into the poet’s atelier. In the first, as a mere lad of twenty-seven, Hecht […]