The poems in Kenneth Koch's 16th collection are directly addressed to a variety of subjects, such as "To Jewishness," "To Old Age," and "To Psychoanalysis." Several draw on Koch's experiences in World War II, in poems that are largely comic--the only way to deal with something that the poet says is ...
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John Ashberry won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award for 'Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror'. Ashberry reaffirms the poetic powers that have made him such an outstanding figure in contemporary literature. This new book continues his astonishing exp ...
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Since, 1990, Louise Gl?ck has been exploring a form that is, according to poet Robert Hass, her invention. <I>Vita Nova</i> -- like its immediate predecessors, a book-length sequence -- combines the ecstatic utterance of <I>The Wild Iris</i> with the worldly dramas elaborated in <I>Meadowlands. Vita ...
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"These new poems . . . deliver the typical Tate-esque trope de grace to all sanctimonious poses and stodgy cogitation, all verdigris-encrusted mental statuary".--Carolyne Wright, Harvard Review. Winner of the 1994 National Book Award.