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Treason. Poems by Hédi Kaddour. Translated by Marilyn Hacker. Yale University Press, 168 pp. 2010.
Hédi Kaddour writes a verse with clear antecedents in the meditative, ironical poems of Baudelaire and Verlaine. If that dates him a bit, so be it. Kaddour’s poems enchant with their ability to retain an intonation we immediately associate with [...]
Continue Reading →Poetry in Person: Twenty-five Years of Conversation with America's Poets. Edited by Alexander Neubauer. Knopf, 342 pp.
This book is a perfect gift for any reader or writer of poetry. It consists of transcripts excerpted from the amazing classes held by Pearl London at the New School in New York, from 1970 to the late [...]
Continue Reading →Review of That Dark Lake
by Don Barkin
Antrim House, $19
The misty mountains that grace the cover of Don Barkin’s That Dark Lake suggest what lies within this collection of poetry. It also bespeaks the atmosphere that pervades the sensibility of this New Haven poet. Barkin’s work is divided into [...]
Continue Reading →When I heard Mark Strand read at Yale the end of spring semester from his New Selected Poems (NY: Knopf, 2009), I resolved to get a copy and read through it. The impression I’d had that Strand’s work inhabits a certain constant place is sustained by this reading, and it’s fitting that the New Selected [...]
Continue Reading →Silence is all we dread.
There's Ransom in a Voice --
But Silence is Infinity.
Himself have not a face.
-Emily Dickinson
Andy and I have been driving from Burlington, Vermont and back to New Haven a lot lately. Headed north from New Haven, the rise of New England and her green [...]
Continue Reading →One of my more interesting reading experiences last fall was provided by Frederick Seidel's Ooga-Booga (2006). I don't know much about Seidel except he's rich, was born in 1936, published his first book of poems in 1962, and didn't publish another book until 1979. His Collected Poems, 1959-2009 was released a few months ago. I'm [...]
Continue Reading →D.A. Powell’s reading late March, at St. Anthony’s Hall in New Haven, was subdued, offering the stringent lyricism of his poems in a quiet, undemonstrative manner. The week before, in a poetry reading group at Yale, we had kicked around a selection of poems culled from all Powell's published volumes; from that brief introduction, I [...]
Continue Reading →By Ted Berrigan (Edited by Alice Notley, Anselm Berrigan, and Edmund Berrigan; University of California Press, 2005)
I had a friend at high school called Andy Mitchell (Mitch) who had the knack of befriending anyone he happened to meet and charmingly cadging anything from confidence to cigarettes to sex. No Charles Ryder, [...]
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