Makings of the Sun
Michael ThurstonAppreciative essays on (fairly) recent poetry (since 2000, roughly). Think wine tasting: there will be some background on the makers, and then some "tasting notes" to give a sense of what the stuff is like, why I like it, why you might too.
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Tastes Great, Less Filling
This post began in thoughts about whether and to what extent we can appreciate quite different kinds of poetry, poetries, that is, with not only diverse but divergent foundational ideas or aesthetic programs. It was going to conclude with s...
Regrets, I've Had a Few
I wrote a few weeks ago about a couple of early poems by Carl Phillips, poems that I have long loved, that have stuck with me for what I realize now (though I hardly felt the time passing) has been decades. Not gonna linger over that. My pl...
Spring Break
It’s Spring Break, and I like to use this lull at the hinge of seasons, as things are beginning to return (entering a new world naked, as Williams reminds us) to reread something, and not something that I’m rereading because I’m teaching it...
Low, Dishonest
I never really understood why, on or about September 12, 2001, so many people started to circulate Auden’s “September 1, 1939.” I mean, I got the sense that they felt that something had ended, that something, perhaps worse, was starting. Bu...
Emily Wilson, Burnt Mountain
In general, I don’t think of this humble newsletter as a reviews site. I write plenty of reviews that I publish elsewhere, and I like using this space for appreciations that expand beyond single volumes and that are also free from any expec...
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