Israel Is Israel Is
Israel Is Israel is he or she who wrestles with God--call him what you will, not some goon (with a rabbi and gun) in a pre-fab home on a biblical hill....
Apr 3, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Peter Cole
A Nurse of Enchantment A Nurse of Enchantment
Helen Adam wrote to raise gooseflesh. A new collection of her work takes her on her own terms.
Mar 27, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Ange Mlinko
One Sun Roaring One Sun Roaring
The Zen reflections in Philip Whalen's poetry have been collected in one beautiful book.
Mar 27, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Jordan Davis
Un Lio Bestial Un Lio Bestial
In his poetry Roberto Bolaño gave himself over to the subversive, to antiheroes, ballad and saga.
Mar 13, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Forrest Gander
A Test of Poetry A Test of Poetry
More than any other American poet, George Oppen begs us to consider the elusive relationship between aesthetic and political responsibilities.
Jan 24, 2008 / Books & the Arts / James Longenbach
A Human Pledge A Human Pledge
The most important American love poet in living memory, Robert Creeley celebrated the body and its ambivalent desires with a touch as light as a song.
Jan 2, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Susan Stewart
The Madman and the Poet The Madman and the Poet
In a new collection of poems by the mentally ill Czech dissident Ivan Blatný, the world and the poet's interpretations of it are continuously transforming.
Dec 6, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Benjamin Paloff
A Kind of Waiting Always A Kind of Waiting Always
A new book of Rod Smith's poems maps the geometry of social life in thoughts and phrases.
Dec 6, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Joshua Clover
Dreamlife Without Angels Dreamlife Without Angels
John Ashbery has given us the ideal poetry for the Information Age.
Nov 29, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Ange Mlinko
Playtime Playtime
The Surrealist dissident Raymond Queneau turned his writings into a lab for his experiments, and the results are still exhilarating.
Nov 1, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Mark Polizzotti