Reviews

The Letters of Samuel Beckett

by Alfred Corn February 2, 2012 Reviews
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In order to write, Beckett first had to wipe the slate clean and wipe out conventional notions about the nature of human reality.

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1Q84

by Brian Chappell January 23, 2012 Reviews
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All the tasty bits of vintage Murakami are here: dull but steadfast male leads, hypersexual and hypersexy teenagers, strange conspiracies loaded with uncanny coincidences, and, of course, forays into parallel universes.

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Monsters, Inc.

by Brian Chappell November 24, 2011 Reviews
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Zone One is not a zombie novel.

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Why Poetic Collaboration Matters

by Gene Tanta November 14, 2011 Reviews
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To collaborate well as a creative writer, one has to give up the 500 year old idea of the Humanist self as a unique consumer of “the real.”

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Robert Duncan’s The H.D. Book

by Levi Rubeck November 9, 2011 Reviews
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The book is essentially a record of Duncan’s two-step with poetry

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Indie Bookstores: Paris

by Brian Chappell October 4, 2011 Reviews
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What would a trip to Paris be without a gentle kiss from Destiny?

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Indie Bookstores: Cambridge and Boston

by Brian Chappell August 26, 2011 Reviews
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The first books I saw when I walked in were Franco Moretti’s two-volume history of the novel. I’m in paradise.

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The Solipsist in Purgatory: Jollimore’s AT LAKE SCUCOG

by Micah Towery August 19, 2011 Philosophy
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It’s always a relief to me when I see a book published by somebody outside the “poetry ghetto.”

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And I Chose—All: Mary Ruefle

by Colie Hoffman August 8, 2011 Poetry and Poetics
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Picasso wrote this well before Mary Ruefle started publishing books, but if his words could be an egg, Ruefle’s Selected Poems would hatch right out of it.

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Rimbaud’s Last Revelation

by Alfred Corn July 26, 2011 Poetry and Poetics
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Ashbery’s translation is the best we have in English so far.

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The Practice of Poetry

by Gene Tanta July 19, 2011 Academia
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The poetry lesson is that poetry is a practice.

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All in a Day’s Work

by Brian Chappell July 12, 2011 Fiction
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These types of genres are a narratologist’s dream, because one can spend an inordinate amount of time (even in a 190 page book like this one) teasing out the tiniest components of this unfamiliar world.

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