The Guardian Reviews Timothy Donnelly’s The Cloud Corporation January 25, 2012: Perhaps you've seen this already, but we'd like to point you to The Guardian's review of Timothy Donnelly's The Cloud Corporation (Wave Books 2010) -- the guy's gone international! The review's title almost says it all: "An outstanding collection by a modern American master." More from writer David Wheatley: For lyric poetry of such high [...] by Harriet Staff

Barry Schwabsky on America’s Greatest Poet on the World’s Greatest Poet January 24, 2012: The Nation art critic, prolific essayist and poetry reviewer and recent Triple Canopier Barry Schwabsky looks at John Ashbery's translational relationship with "proto-punk" Arthur Rimbaud for Hyperallergic, and you'll wanna read it. A new take: But it’s surprising that people haven’t been more surprised by John Ashbery’s decision [...] by Harriet Staff

Believable Heartbreak: Maureen Thorson’s Applies to Oranges January 23, 2012: Maureen Thorson's Applies to Oranges (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2011) has been deftly reviewed by Keith Gray over at Impose Magazine. Gray immediately notes all that work the title is doing: Has any title aspired to do so much as Applies to Oranges, a false substitution from the start? Apples just an autocorrect away. Applies a somewhat [...] by Harriet Staff

Maggie Nelson Reviews Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s The Weather in Proust January 17, 2012: Over at the Los Angeles Review of Books, poet, professor and scholar Maggie Nelson offers an extended consideration of the much-loved critic and scholar Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, "one of the primary founders of the field known as queer theory, who died of breast cancer in 2009." Sedgwick's last writings have been published by Duke University Press as [...] by Harriet Staff

We Fuggin Love You, Ed Sanders (So Does the NYT) January 13, 2012: "Present at the Counterculture's Creation" is the headline for a new review of Ed Sander's Fug You at The New York Times. (Not everyone can be the Fug Girls.) Of course everyone in poetryland knows that The Fugs were around long before the word got so darn useful. But we digress. This is a terrific review of Ed Sanders's new work, Fug You: An [...] by Harriet Staff

Gleb Shulpyakov’s A Fireproof Box January 12, 2012: The Rumpus's David Peak reviews a title for us Russian poetry fans, the "porous work" that is A Fireproof Box, by Gleb Shulpyakov (Canarium 2011); and translated by Christopher Mattison, who has been behind such great ventures as Zoland Poetry, Adventures in Poetry and Zephyr Press. Mattison has done a fine job with Shulpyakov's work, as Peak [...] by Harriet Staff

Joe Paterno’s Aeneid January 11, 2012: John Lessingham considers Joe Paterno and the Aeneid in a recent essay for n+1. Drawing on Paterno's biography and decades of press interviews, he traces the football coach's fascination with the epic poem back to the 1970s, then reflects on all the ways that Paterno misread the motivations and character of its central figure, and finally imagines [...] by Harriet Staff

Poems as objects of production: Jacket2 reviews The Cloud Corporation January 9, 2012: Over at Jacket2, Drew Dillhunt reviews The Cloud Corporation, Timothy Donnelly's second collection of poetry. The book, he writes, is "chock-full of feverish strings of iambs and strictly measured stanzas that deftly lilt their way into the subconscious." He continues: The poems in The Cloud Corporation are fundamentally aware of themselves as [...] by Harriet Staff

“New Depthlessness”: The Nation Reviews Spahr, Gordon, Moschovakis and Ossip January 5, 2012: Wow wow! Stephen Burt has just reviewed some great books of poetry for The Nation, including Well Then There Now, by Juliana Spahr; The Source, by Noah Eli Gordon; You and Three Others Are Approaching a Lake, by Anna Moschovakis; and The Cold War, by Kathleen Ossip. Framing the review with Eliot's warning that poets not "seek new human emotion," [...] by Harriet Staff

Smart Piece at Jacket2: Robert Dewhurst Connects Dorothea Lasky to Penny Arcade December 20, 2011: Jacket2 is firing on all cylinders right into the New Year, having published a piece yesterday (originally printed in ON: Contemporary Practice) by Robert Dewhurst--Wild Orchids and Satellite Telephone--about the work of current Harriet Tweety bird Dorothea Lasky. He cuts to the chase, and in affective prose here: Because her poems so [...] by Harriet Staff