Have you seen World Class Poetry’s new book reviews? Last week we published two and just today we published a third. Synopses of the reviews follow:
Warhorses – Pulitzer Prize-winner Yusef Komunyakaa’s latest book, tackling the issue of war through myth and history. I don’t want to spoil the end, but you’ll have to read the [...]
In response to my question “Who decides whether a piece of literature is good or not“, Poetic Republic is sponsoring a new twist on the poetry contest – a democratic twist.
The contest is characterized by rounds where 12 participants vote on each other’s poems and the winners move on to the next round. Those who [...]
New book review at World Class Poetry:
Publisher-poet Sidney Hall Jr., owner of Hobblebush Books has released Fumbling In The Light. Read the World Class Poetry review here.
If you thought this post was going to be a review of a book of poems, well sorry to disappoint you. Rattle Conversations is actually a book of interviews with poets. But you won’t read the review here either. This is the introduction. I’ll let you know where to find the review in just a [...]
Thanks to Diane Lockward for her list of poetry journals that read submissions during the summer. It’s a three-part list here, here, and here.
The newest member of the World Class Poetry Toolbar family is Mannequin Envy.
Books waiting in the cue for my review:
Lassoed With A Decorative Tongue
Watch The Watering Can
Graffiti Verite (DVD)
The World Of Richard [...]
William Logan is at it again. This time, a review of Frank O’Hara. The funniest line in the whole review:
The selection is not perfect; Ford has included a grindingly self-conscious play as well as two long poems almost unreadable now, full of campy nonsense like “whoops-musicale (sei tu m’ami) ahhahahahaha / loppy di looploop” and [...]
I just posted my review of Brian Turner’s Here, Bullet. It was the most difficult review I’ve had to write so far.
My initial reaction, some readers will know, was quite negative. But I’m afraid it was overly harsh. There are a lot of complexities in his verses that my initial reaction didn’t pick up on [...]
I just recently posted a new book review at World Class Poetry. As you’ll see, I have a mixed reaction to Bradley Lastname’s brand of Dada verse. Some of it is quite good, actually, for word play. And if you know anything about me, I like word play almost as much as I like foreplay. [...]