September 2010
Poems from Daisy Fried, Geoffrey Hill, Ange Mlinko, David Shapiro, William Logan, Jacob Saenz, Yusef Komunyakaa, Matthew Zapruder, and Wislawa Szymborska; Tony Hoagland on the tribes of poetry and Michael Robbins on Robert Hass.
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Nothing Plus the Idea of Chocolate
Poems from David Shapiro, Jacob Saenz, Maria Hummel, and Matthew Zapruder; Tony Hoagland on communication sickness and the poetics of vertigo.
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The first line of Robert Hass’s first collection, Field Guide, which won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award in 1973, is “I won’t say much for the sea.” This offhand repurposing of idiom, funny and insightful, is characteristic of his poems—of course he goes on to say a million things for and about the sea. READ MORE »
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