I’m talking about poetry book reviews!

On Adrienne Rich’s posthumous collection of new and selected poems. Somewhat surprisingly (though refreshingly, even though I love Rich’s work from the 70s through the early 90s), a tepid review.

Nearly a thousand pages of Edward Dorn’s poetry is reviewed here, in a surprisingly short piece.

Seth Abramson is becoming more measured and more interesting to read, at least, as a review (I haven’t read his poetry, though I reckon that I should). He writes some longer review in this, his usual collection of individual reviews of five different works. He offers some criticism and damns with faint praise, rather than universally lauding. And his final review is less a review than something deserving of its own space: an essay on the changes and developments of the various publication philosophies of poetry book publishers.

And a decidedly mixed to poor review of W.S. Merwin’s translations.

Two minimalist poets.

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