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New Gass at Harper’s

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , on October 11, 2011 | 1 Comment »

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On “Deal with the Devil,” a Review by William Logan

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , on February 20, 2011 | 3 Comments »

A couple of weeks ago I twice read aloud Elizabeth Bishop’s complete poems, reveling in their wit, their unusual imagery, their melancholic navigation between detachment and intimacy, their suspicion of a “priceless set of vocabularies.” And then there’s the delight in the noise of birds; take, for instance, the birds in her elegiac poem “North [...]

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Dwight Around Your Lips or the Third Thing that Killed Off Elizabeth Bishop

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , on February 10, 2011 | 8 Comments »

Criticizing Dwight Garner’s reviews of poets is nothing new at Big Other. Two days ago on Elizabeth Bishop’s 100th Birthday, the New York Times ran his review of her correspondence with the New Yorker. It is a lukewarm take stating the book is more for completists–understandably so. I do find issue with Garner’s gloss on [...]

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Elizabeth Bishop at 100

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , on February 1, 2011 | 8 Comments »

After taking a detour from my reading of The Portrait of a Lady (with its grand style and intricacies, it’s the best, so far, of James’s novels (I’m reading them chronologically)) to read what turned out to be one of the worst novels I’ve ever read, I flushed out my brain by reading Emily Dickinson’s [...]

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