Second Acts: A Second Look at Second Books of Poetry
Lisa Russ Spaar continues her examination of poets’ second acts. In this edition, Louise Bogan and Jessica Fisher.
Lisa Russ Spaar continues her examination of poets’ second acts. In this edition, Louise Bogan and Jessica Fisher.
THE DEATH OF SEAMUS HEANEY this past August reminds us that the passing of any great poet, however old, always feels untimely. A refrain in the flood...
What is revealed as the poet makes a kind of jeté, a leap, an imprinting — the landing of a second foot?
A Second Look at Second Books of poetry by Donald Justice and Allison Benis White.
THE FALL OF 1982 found me in Harrisonburg, Virginia, recently sprung from graduate school and teaching creative writing at James Madison University...
Triptych image: Juliana Romano, "Girl Smoking, Klimt," 2011 A GAME I LIKE TO PLAY at certain convenience stores is “juxtapositions.&rdquo...
ONE PLEASURE OF DISCOVERING and revisiting second books of poems for this Second Acts series has been the opportunity to juxtapose and curate...
I HAVE HEARD Charles Wright say that it is a poet’s third book that signals the arrival of his or her voice and which merits the special...
IN OUR ONGOING SERIES Second Acts: A Second Look at Second Books of Poetry, poet and essayist Lisa Russ Spaar takes a bimonthly look at second books...
Second books of poetry by Tom Andrews and Jessica Greenbaum
The anatomy of a second book of poems