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Selected Review Essays 

Los Angeles Review of Books

Of Quirks and Quarks: John Koethe's Cemeteries and Galaxies

Stacked Time: On April Gibson’s 'The Span of a Small Forever' and Alice Notley’s 'Being Reflected Upon'

What Darkness Makes of Light: Nina MacLaughlin's 'Winter Solstice'

 

The Engine of Self-Knowledge: Maggie Millner's 'Couplets'

Driving to the Interior: Susan Barba's 'geode'

Song and the Names of Things: Robert Hass's 'Summer Snow'

Gnostic Gospel for the Now: B. K. Fischer's 'Radioapocrypha'

Boston Review

Little Gods: Fanny Howe's 'Second Childhood'

Frank Bidart's Mirror: 'Half-light, Collected Poems 1965-2015'

Virginia Konchan's 'End of Spectacle' 

TJ Jarrett's 'Zion'
 

Harvard Review

On Rowan Ricardo Phillips' 'The Ground: Poems' 

On Kathleen Ossip's 'The Do-Over'

On Scott Harney's 'The Blood of San Gennaro'

On Katie Peterson's 'The Accounts'

On Callie Siskel's 'Two Minds'

On the Seawall

'I see a postman everywhere': On Elizabeth Bishop's Postcards

On Vidyan Ravinthiran's 'Asian/Other: Life, Poems, and the Problem of Memoir'

Plume

 

On Virginia Konchan's 'Requiem'

 

PN Review

Ghost Nights: Deryn Rees-Jones 'Erato'

 

The Weekly Standard (now Washington Examiner)

Don Paterson's 'Sonnets'

Imperial Tempest: Seamus Heaney's Translation of 'Aeneid, Book VI'

 

A Poet in Place: Colm Toibin's 'On Elizabeth Bishop'

 

Notre Dame Review

Ghosts, Queries, and the Proleptic Elegy: Schnackenberg's 'Heavenly Questions' and Warren's 'Ghost in a Red Hat'

 

Demeter's Song: Mary Jo Bang's 'Elegy'

Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature 

Elizabeth Bishop's Theater of the Inevitable: 'Elizabeth Bishop's Brazil' by Bethany Hicok and 'Elizabeth

Bishop's Prosaic' by Vidyan Ravinthiran 

Consequence 

Last Stop: 'Station Zed' by Tom Sleigh

Critical Flame 

Of Sense, Scents, and the Sensorium: Atomizer by Elizabeth A. I. Powell

 

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