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New in June: I Am Not Sidney Poitier and The Looking House
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By Charles Simic and Radmila Lazic "[Lazic's] sexual frankness is breathtaking. I would think that she would scare most Serbian men out of their wits. I hope American men are tougher." —Carolyn Kizer |
By Matthea Harvey "So much happens in their small, hard shapes: wit, sorrow, and an intelligence that nips and worries its subjects into giving up their full oddity and originality. A reader does not consume this poetry. She is, instead, pinched and prodded towards revelation. Each neat poem is a Pandora's box full of wonderful troubles." —Lynn Emanuel |
By James Longenbach James Longenbach offers a provocative look at poetry in the newest addition to the Art of series, a series on writing that specializes in sharp-witted lucidity, edited by Charles Baxter. |
By Elizabeth Alexander "In narratives sweetened by the lyric pulse and pierced through by felicitous turns of irony, Alexander chronicles the world of 'black and tan'. Race is present in her poems in the way that sex, class, age, even weather are present in all of our lives." —Rita Dove, "Poets Choice," The Washington Post |
By Kate Sontag and David Graham Rich in opinion and theory, After Confession offers the first thorough discussion on the lyric "I"—the boundaries between literal and emotional truth, memory and imagination, person and persona, narcissism and revelation. |