Verse chronicle June 1998
Soiled desires
On Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes, Wakefulness by John Ashbery, Desire by Frank Bidart, The Engrafted Word by Karl Kirchwey, Going Fast by Frederick Seidel & Green Sees Things in Waves by August Kleinzahler
Department: “Verse chronicle”
Verse chronicle November 1997
Betrayals of the tongue
On Canaan by Geoffrey Hill, The Errancy by Jorie Graham, The Poems of J. V. Cunningham edited by Timothy Steele, Tales from Ovid by Ted Hughes & The Collected Poems of Amy Clampitt
Verse chronicle June 1997
Hardscrabble country
On recent books by Charles Wright, Michael Lind, Mary Oliver, Robert Bly, Les Murray & Edgar Bowers
Verse chronicle December 1996
Old guys
On recent books by Charles Simic, A. R. Ammons, Robert Hass, C. K. Williams, Joseph Brodsky & Anthony Hecht
Verse chronicle June 1996
Gravel on the tongue
On recent books of poems by W. S. Merwin, Sharon Olds, Virginia Hamilton Adair, Mark Doty, Louise Glück & Seamus Heaney.
Verse chronicle December 1995
Martyrs to language
On Can You Hear Bird by John Ashbery, Dark Fields of the Republic: Poems 1991-1995 by Adrienne Rich, Red Sauce, Whiskey, and Snow by August Kleinzahler, The Art of Drowning by Billy Collins, Mother Love by Rita Dove, Passing Through: The Later Poems, New and Selected by Stanley Kunitz, and Worldling by Elizabeth Spires.