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Reviewed By... Nancy Scheemaker

"The universe is a continuous web. Touch it at any point and the whole web quivers." Mr. Kunitz seems more vividly alive at the age of 100 than the rest of us in the prime of our lives. This is a lovely and inspiring volume of treasures.

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Reviewed By... Bruce Anderson

Imagine Emily Dickinson as a gay male poet in late 20th/early 21st century America and you'll have some sense of Carl Phillips' poems. Add to this image Dante's dictum (from the Vita Nuova) that the poet should make manifest the "intelligence of love", and the picture sharpens. At every carefully negotiated turn Phillips matches (and modulates) emotional with intellectual passion, giving the impressi... read more>>>

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Reviewed By... Christopher Law

Robert Lowell was supremely educated and he was crazy. The letters are a first hand depiction of his own mind. These are not the highly crafted poems on the same subject. All of the them are uncorrected. He crosses out his mistakes (noted in the edition) and writes exactly what he is thinking that second. Lowell records his talks with T.S. Eliot and visits the incarcerated Ezra Pound in St. Elizabeth's... read more>>>