The NYTimes also just gave Alicia's new book a rave review. It's not just a polite notice, either, since the review is over 1000 words.
HERE
Was it just two weeks ago that a cry rang out that the NYT was hostile to poetry because they published a single dumb op-ed claiming that poetry is dead? I guess the NYT didn't agree with that op-ed, which of course they never said they did, or they would not have devoted so much space to reviewing a book of poetry, and by a formalist no less! (That
The Nation devoted so much space to a formalist is also encouraging).
I note that Alicia also received a very positive, though short, review in
The New Yorker this week.
I think poetry is making a comeback of sorts. In my own local B&N, the children's poetry section has almost doubled in size since a month or two ago (now it's maybe four feet of shelf space, though a couple of feet belong to Silverstein).