Recommended by NYT Q1 2007.
2007-04-21
2007-04-16
New and Selected Poems by David Shapiro
"His metropolis radiates outward to comprehend Wequalic Park and the Palisades, and his alcatory, portent-free sophistication seems confident enough to accommodate primitive, endearing, and frankly tender tropes and situations, as where a poet faces an ailing mother or a growing son. A perennial drama in this volume is that of an erudite and restlessly modernizing mind confronting pains and peculiarities that no amount of urbanity can assuage. 'The lachrymal apparatus remains.' Shapiro says at one point, and he orchestrates its operations with irony and honesty. The effect is of unforeseen intimacy at the heart of abstraction."
Writer uncredited, reviewed in New Yorker 2007-04-23.
Writer uncredited, reviewed in New Yorker 2007-04-23.
2007-02-25
Ellen Bryant Voigt Poetry
Voigt, Ellen Bryant. New and Selected Poems, 1976-2006. W.W. Norton and Co., 2007.
Review of Voigt's Poetry Collection
MagicalNumber.com includes a brief excerpt from a recent NYTBR review of Ellen Voigt's poetry collection.
2007-02-18
E. Howard Hunt
2007-02-18 This is the stuff of film scripts. A man first becomes a published novelist at 23. With several books under his belt, he works in Europe under the Marshall Plan, joined the CIA, and then was involved in Watergate. The facts are recited nicely by Rachel Donadio in NYTBR
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