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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Making the Stone Stonier
Carl Dennis is a pretty good writer. I found a lot to like in Practical Gods, the collection that won him the Pulitzer Prize in 2002. Nevertheless, he’s going to get short shrift in this essay. Not because of any shortcomings in his poems,...
Tango Unchained
While the Pulitzer committee was awarding its poetry prize to Stephen Dunn and the National Book Award was going to Alan Dugan in 2001, the T.S. Eliot Prize was awarded to an astonishing poetic achievement: Anne Carson’s The Beauty of the H...
Why should not old men be mad?
[Note: This is the second in a series of essays on the winners of prominent poetry prizes beginning in 2000. This is part one of two on the 2001 winners — the Pulitzer and National Book Award winners today. Part two, on Anne Carson, will fo...
2000
I don’t remember whether I noticed who won poetry prizes in 2000. It was a busy year. I moved from one job and one town to another that summer, started with new courses in a new department that fall, and juggled three children (sometimes li...
All Must Have Prizes
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