Northshire Bookstore Review
Reviewed By... Bruce Anderson

Behold the poet in the Savile Row suit, leaning into 150 mph's worth of slipstream, wringing every last rpm from his bespoke Ducati, the goddess with her arms around his trim waist laughing deliriously in his ear-- so Frederick Seidel would have us see him in poems (drawn from life or not) glacial and furious by turns, but above all elegant. Here is our Catullus, our Juvenal, a rhymster to flay the pretensi... read more>>>

Northshire Bookstore Review
Reviewed By... Bruce Anderson

A new standard for anthologies of American verse. The selection is both expansive and meticulous: all the great poems are here; the choice among living/recent poets is pertinent and judicious; "schools" and "groups" of all sorts are included; each poet is introduced with a brief biographical sketch and an assessment of reputation (also judiciously weighed); and strands of influence among poets are traced an... read more>>>

Northshire Bookstore Review
Reviewed By... Summer Edge 03

The poetry celebration continued in June with the appearance of an old friend of the Northshire, Billy Collins, for his new anthology Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry, a collection of poems for high school students to read (one for each day of the school year) so that they might incorporate poetry into their daily lives.