Posts by: Susan Holahan

McGrath’s American Hero

On February 16, 2011 By Susan Holahan

Campbell McGrath, Shannon. Ecco/Harper Collins, 2009. $23.99

This long poem’s opening, spoken in the confiding, companionable first-person voice of a young man eager to stand out on Lewis & Clark’s team in the summer of 1804, rolls through unsettled American land near the Missouri river. Determined to prove himself, this youngest member of the Corps [...]

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Romanticism

On September 20, 2009 By Susan Holahan

By April Bernard (Norton)

To last as a Romantic, April Bernard says in a recent interview, “You have to be wise and passionate.” In her fourth book of poems passion and wisdom contend for the soul of Art.

Her Romantic suffers, feeling more, about more:

. . . it was the tree [...]

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