Nobody else contemporary or comparable to the young Rachel B. Glaser writes as epiphanic structures as these or plays with the purpose and effect of fiction with such verve
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Rimbaud’s Last Revelation
Ashbery’s translation is the best we have in English so far.
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The Practice of Poetry
The poetry lesson is that poetry is a practice.
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Lowell’s Bedlam: John McCullough
All acts of observation are partial and reveal as much about the observer as the observed.
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Lowell’s Bedlam: M G Stephens
Alfred Corn’s play gives us an inner portrait of Robert Lowell that is not found in either the biography or the poetry itself.