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Unread 04-29-2019, 03:45 PM
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Default Two reviews out today:

Rafael Campo's New & Selected: https://www.claremont.org/crb/basicp...-rafael-campo/

The new Elizabeth Jennings biography: ow.ly/nG5g50stKgc
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Nope. Not Mary Oliver (thankfully). Thanks for the link to the Campo review!
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Congrats, and thanks for the notice. Here's a good link to the EJ review, which I read with interest.

Cathy, you're being naughty. I consider Mary Oliver a religious poet of sorts, and a successful one. She just died, as you probably know.
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Michael,
I know she died recently.

I'm not being "naughty", simply expressing my honest opinion.
As you have.
As we all have a right to.
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It's not the opinion I object to; it's the gratuitous shot.

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Thank you for the worthwhile read on Campo, indeed, Michael. Congratulations!
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Great take on Rafael Campo whose poems I always assign in undergraduate poetry courses. I hadn't realized a selected volume was out. Heading to Amazon.

Elizabeth Jennings has haunted my Amazon wish list for a while. It sounds as if the biography is a mixed bag, though useful, but I have to stop procrastinating & get hold of the Collected Poems....

For both reviews, thanks, Mike!
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Michael,
Did you actually read the review? I simply agree with Mike's aside.
Don't lecture me, either.
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Unread 05-01-2019, 04:16 PM
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Cathy, I did read Mike’s Campo piece. I repeat my point: I don’t understand why praise of one poet requires denigration of another. I think it would be a different question if the subject were Oliver; as it stands, it’s a gratuitous shot at her. That is my point, and my opinion, and there I hope to leave it.

I did enjoy reading the reviews and again I congratulate you, Mike. Thanks for posting them.
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Michael F, it doesn't "require" it any more than you were required to play schoolmarm to Catherine, but it's an available option.

Michael J, thanks for the review. I knew little or nothing about Campo and am happy for the introduction.
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