Robert Duncan , ed. Michael Boughn and Victor Coleman | The HD Book | California | 2011
At last! Even if you don’t like Duncan (and quite a few don’t), this is still not to be ignored. Its publication a major event of the year.
Tony Judt | Ill Fares the Land | Penguin | 2010
I lament his death, he’s irreplaceable. Not to heed his work, these essays, would be sheer folly.
Norma Cole | To Be At Music: Essays & Talks | Omnidawn | 2010
Brilliant, pithy, full of news.
George Bowering | My Darling Nelly Gray | Talonbooks | 2010
Bowering in top form.
Robert Pogue Harrison | The Body of Beatrice | Hopkins | 1988
An oldie but goodie, still opening doors.
Meredith Quartermain, drawings by Susan Bee | Recipes From the Red Planet | Book Thug | 2010
I’m not exactly impartial here, but hey, this is really a very interesting and indeed good book. The publisher calls it fiction; it’s more like poetry to me, and resourceful.
Lissa Wolsak | Squeezed Light: Collected Poems 1994-2005 | Station Hill | 2010
Dense, difficult, bracing—can I say these wide-ranging poems are obsessed with words? They’re sure instructive to anyone who cares about them, and really are exhilarating in their astonished thought.
Guy Birchard | Further Than The Blood | Pressed Wafer | 2010
This is Birchard’s sixth or maybe seventh book of poetry, but nobody seems to have noticed. Maybe his poems are too subtle and careful, perhaps the mode at casual glance too familiar, the skill too unobtrusive.
Michael Boughn | Cosmographia: A Post-Lucretian Micro-Epic | Book Thug | 2010
Issued in fascicles over the last few years, and at last collected together. Boughn is a terrific poet, who actually thinks as he writes. He can be very funny; sometimes he’s very angry. He’s always without fail interesting, so long as you’re paying attention.
Stéphane Mallarmé, trans. Barbara Johnson | Divagations: The Author’s 1897 Arrangement | Belknap / Harvard | 2007
Delighted to find this still in print.
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Peter Quartermain has just (July 2011) submitted “Poetic Fact,” a collection of his essays, to an interested publisher. His edition of Robert Duncan’s Collected Early and Collected Later Poems and Plays is currently at the U of California P. The introduction to the first volume appeared in The Capilano Review, Fall 2009.
Quartermain’s Attention Span for 2010, 2008, 2006. Back to 2011 directory.
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Robert Duncan , ed. Michael Boughn and Victor Coleman | The HD Book | California | 2011
At last! Even if you don’t like Duncan (and quite a few don’t), this is still not to be ignored. Its publication a major event of the year.
Tony Judt | Ill Fares the Land | Penguin | 2010
I lament his death, he’s irreplaceable. Not to heed his work, these essays, would be sheer folly.
Norma Cole | To Be At Music: Essays & Talks | Omnidawn | 2010
Brilliant, pithy, full of news.
George Bowering | My Darling Nelly Gray | Talonbooks | 2010
Bowering in top form.
Robert Pogue Harrison | The Body of Beatrice | Hopkins | 1988
An oldie but goodie, still opening doors.
Meredith Quartermain, drawings by Susan Bee | Recipes From the Red Planet | Book Thug | 2010
I’m not exactly impartial here, but hey, this is really a very interesting and indeed good book. The publisher calls it fiction; it’s more like poetry to me, and resourceful.
Lissa Wolsak | Squeezed Light: Collected Poems 1994-2005 | Station Hill | 2010
Dense, difficult, bracing—can I say these wide-ranging poems are obsessed with words? They’re sure instructive to anyone who cares about them, and really are exhilarating in their astonished thought.
Guy Birchard | Further Than The Blood | Pressed Wafer | 2010
This is Birchard’s sixth or maybe seventh book of poetry, but nobody seems to have noticed. Maybe his poems are too subtle and careful, perhaps the mode at casual glance too familiar, the skill too unobtrusive.
Michael Boughn | Cosmographia: A Post-Lucretian Micro-Epic | Book Thug | 2010
Issued in fascicles over the last few years, and at last collected together. Boughn is a terrific poet, who actually thinks as he writes. He can be very funny; sometimes he’s very angry. He’s always without fail interesting, so long as you’re paying attention.
Stéphane Mallarmé, trans. Barbara Johnson | Divagations: The Author’s 1897 Arrangement | Belknap / Harvard | 2007
Delighted to find this still in print.
§
Peter Quartermain has just (July 2011) submitted “Poetic Fact,” a collection of his essays, to an interested publisher. His edition of Robert Duncan’s Collected Early and Collected Later Poems and Plays is currently at the U of California P. The introduction to the first volume appeared in The Capilano Review, Fall 2009.
Quartermain’s Attention Span for 2010, 2008, 2006. Back to 2011 directory.
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October 17, 2011 at 11:10 am
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