Book Reviews

Carl Dennis

Submitted by Reagan Upshaw on Tue, 11/23/2010 - 12:39.

This is a review I published in Bloomsbury Review three years ago.

Carl Dennis, Unknown Friends (New York: Penguin, 2007), ISBN-978-0-14-303875-7, 75 pp., $28.00 paper.

Tony Towle

Submitted by Reagan Upshaw on Mon, 11/22/2010 - 10:29.

This review appeared in Bloomsbury Review a couple of years ago.

Ron Padgett

Submitted by Reagan Upshaw on Thu, 11/18/2010 - 14:56.

This review originally appeared in the Poetry Project Newsletter several years back.
Reagan Upshaw
Review of Oklahoma Tough by Ron Padgett (Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2003), ISBN: 0-8061-3509-4, hardcover, $29.95.

Ted Berrigan

Submitted by Reagan Upshaw on Wed, 11/17/2010 - 12:03.

Here's a review I wrote of Berrigan's "Selected Poems" years ago, along with a preface/memoir added later.

Book Review of The Best Disguise by Susan McLean

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Susan McLean: The Best Disguise

(The University of Evansville Press, 2009)
ISBN 0-930982-68-1, $15.00

The best disguise is nakedness, McLean’s
first line asserts (if I may paraphrase).
She spends her book unpacking what that means.

Book Review of The Ache of Appetite by Rachel Hadas

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Rachel Hadas: The Ache of Appetite

(Copper Beech Press, 2010)
ISBN 978-0-914278-84-9, $12.00

Book Review of Not For Specialists: New and Selected Poems by W.D. Snodgrass

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W.D. Snodgrass: Not For Specialists: New and Selected Poems

(Waywiser Press, 2009))
ISBN 978-1904130352

In “Disguised as Humpty-Dumpty, W.D. Practices Tumbling” we read:

Book Review of Sappho: Stung with Love: Poems and Fragments Translated by Aaron Poochigian

Book Review —

Sappho: Stung with Love: Poems and Fragments

Translated with an introduction and notes by Aaron Poochigian, and with a preface by Carol Ann Duffy. Penguin Classics (London, 2009)
ISBN 978-0-140-45557-1 U.K. £8.99, Canada $17.50, U.S.A. $14.00

Book Review—Julie Stoner