Zach Savich
April Reviews: Margaret Ross
When reading the most recent releases from The Catenary Press, an Iowa City-based publisher of chapbooks, one might initially overlook Margaret Ross’s Decay Constant: Ross’s collection came out alongside volumes by Robyn Schiff and Jennifer Moxley that showcase the restless,…
April Reviews: Joshua Marie Wilkinson
It’s tempting to discuss Joshua Marie Wilkinson’s poetry through metaphors from film: Wilkinson is a filmmaker, after all, a fact that his poetry recalls both overtly (his 2009 collection is titled The Book of Whispering in the Projection Booth) and…
April Reviews: James Tate
Should I refrain from posting a review of a poetry collection today, out of my horror and anxiety about the events in Boston? Or should I admit that the more days I’m alive, and the worse things get, the more…
April Reviews: Miguel Hernández; Mario Santiago Papasquiaro
“Books of poetry,” wrote Federico García Lorca to the poet Miguel Hernández in 1933, “catch on very slowly.” The New York Review of Books’ new poetry series, which recently released a selected edition of Hernández’s work, seems designed to make…
April Reviews: Cole Swensen; Hadara Bar-Nadav
Each page of Cole Swensen’s collection of essays Noise That Stays Noise (University of Michigan Press, 2011) offers insights that can productively reorient and refresh one’s relationship to literature; it’s a book that one reads, in large part, by looking…
