Second Acts: A Second Look at Second Books of Poetry: Forrest Gander and Richard Siken
Lisa Russ Spaar juxtaposes the erotic poetry collections of Forrest Gander and Richard Siken in her “Second Acts” series.
Lisa Russ Spaar juxtaposes the erotic poetry collections of Forrest Gander and Richard Siken in her “Second Acts” series.
Lisa Russ Spaar looks to poets Sam Taylor and James Tate to explay why the two fundamental modes of lyric poetry are crying and laughing.
How Carl Phillips became one of America's most eminent writers.
Stanford and Sze are "acutely attuned to the physical world, manifested through science, nature, culture, and the sensuous realms of food, drink...
Traversing the tense, torqued territory between orient and occident, indigenous and empirical, history and amnesialanguage makes and unmakes....
Rae Armantrout and Ye Chun are poets who go in “quest of” without, to paraphrase Keats, an irritable reaching after any one answer.
Lisa Russ Spaar looks at second books of poetry by Beth Bachmann and Alice Fulton.
On Galway Kinnell's "Flower Herding on Mount Monadnock" and David Roderick's "The Americans"
Everybody talks about first books. Second books are more interesting.
Two high lyricists, 35 years apart.
Lisa Russ Spaar explores the second books of two well-loved but often misunderstood poets.
Amaud Jamaul Johnson following in his predecessors footsteps in reclaiming African-American vernacular and remaking it into an expressive literary...