I’m not really sure why I keep writing about “Contemporary Verse Novels,” because I’m not that interested in labeling things.…
Contemporary Verse Novels: The Anxiety of Reading Poems and Kimiko Hahn’s THE UNBEARABLE HEART
This book undoes a lot of the anxiety I have as someone who has to read a lot of poetry…
Contemporary Verse Novels: Carole Maso’s AUREOLE
I’d like to state my thanks to the Big Other crew for letting me think aloud and formulate ideas about…
Contemporary Verse Novels: Robert Walser’s SPEAKING TO THE ROSE and Harry Mathews’s 20 LINES A DAY
Contemporary Verse Novels continued . . . Okay, so, this is important (and many thanks to A. D. Jameson for…
Contemporary Verse Novels: Carson, Saterstrom, Conrad, the Roubauds, Boully, and Ruefle
What is a beginning? What is an ending? What makes a particular grouping of words become a poem or a…