I was just wondering how many of you have bought Dick Barnes'
gorgeous book, A WORD LIKE FIRE. I was wondering because even
after a notice in the New Yorker and several other good reviews, his book is selling poorly. There's a review in the new issue of Poetry which ends, "I'm convinced that, in the future, any anthology of twentieth-century Americsn poetry
that neglects Dick Barnes will seem ridiculous." Amen. Those of you who don't know his work are missing one of the five or six best poets of the last third of the 20th century. The book is published by Handsel Press and is only 17 bucks--one of the best bargains I can think of.
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