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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I do a lot of thinking about literary hist...
To Describe and to Point Out
You may have seen a poetry column recently in the New York Times Book Review in which Elissa Gabbert discusses what she calls “new ekphrasis.” An interesting topic for those of us who like to follow the poetic description of art works real...
A Sense of the Conditional
I’ve written about Karen Solie’s poetry before on this platform and I think I’ve mentioned more recently that I’ve been looking forward to her new book, Wellwater, since I read last year that it had won both the T.S. Eliot Prize and the For...
Vertiginous
“Interpretation,” Martha Ronk writes in her 2019 collection, Silences, “means what obscurity always means / could stand for the ambiguity found / where no one could find you.” The “obscurity” in these lines repeats the opening line of the p...
Bounty from The Bounty
For various reasons, I’m still thinking about Derek Walcott, and since some of his work falls into the temporal span I set for myself in starting this newsletter, I’m going to allow myself to write a bit about him here. The Walcott with whi...
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I teach and write about poetry old and new, among other things.
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