The most significant US anthology of innovative poetries from the UK and Ireland in over 25 years. For years we have needed a judicious selection from the poems of James Dickey, a book that would bring new readers to the best of his work. With generosity and tact, Robert Kirschten has given us that book. Like jazz, poetry occasionally finds those whose lifelong dedication to the art makes them incapable of hitting a false note. The Long View is an enormously lively and accomplished book, one that lets itself out of the box to baffle and enlighten.
Most poets define poetry by creating it.
Revell is important for his linkage of a mainstream lyric style with the sensibility of the experimental subversive, purposefully marginal Language text . . . Provoked in Venice makes a rich, and distinctively personal, addition to this tradition. Rudman's Venice becomes a site where meditations on the formings and fadings of old-world cultures mingle with American memories and autobiographical details. The result is, exactly, not ordinary. I find the whole work to be a deeply engaging proccupation with, and articulation of, what life might be said, factually, to be.