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Appreciative essays on (fairly) recent poetry (since 2000, roughly). Think wine tasting: there will be some background on the makers, and then some "tasting notes" to give a sense of what the stuff is like, why I like it, why you might too.
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2000 (opens the original)
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I don’t remember whether I noticed who won poetry prizes in 2000. It was a busy year. I moved from one job and one town to another that summer, started with new courses in a new department that fall, and juggled three children (sometimes literally) throughout. On a good weekend, I skimmed the headlines of a newspaper. It’s unlikely that I read much that wasn’t related to whatever I was teaching or to the book I was trying to wrestle between covers.Which is not to say that I was unfamiliar with a
All Must Have Prizes (opens the original)
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To Describe and to Point Out (opens the original)
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A Sense of the Conditional (opens the original)
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I’ve written about Karen Solie’s poetry before on this platform and I think I’ve mentioned more recently that I’ve been looking forward to her new book, Wellwater, since I read last year that it had won both the T.S. Eliot Prize and the Forward Prize. My anticipation was based not only on my admiration for her earlier work but also on my enjoyment of her posts, both poetry and prose, occasionally posted on the stack.
Vertiginous (opens the original)
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“Interpretation,” Martha Ronk writes in her 2019 collection, Silences, “means what obscurity always means / could stand for the ambiguity found / where no one could find you.” The “obscurity” in these lines repeats the opening line of the poem across the gutter from it, “Paris de Nuit”: “Obscurity without color, the night of Brassai means diffusion.” The sense repeated (with variations) on this verso and recto—
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