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Poetry book reviews
04/18/06
Wislawa Szymborska's work makes imaginative leaps, while Jane Hirshfield's is analytical.
04/18/06
In Czeslaw Milosz's verse, keen intellect is blended with hope.
04/18/06
Barbara Crooker's carefully observed verse moves from darkness to the light.
04/26/05
Ogden Nash had fun with marriage and other states of confusion, but he wrote to his wife like a lovesick swain.
04/26/05
Brigit Pegeen Kelly doesn't write simple poems; she weaves elaborate tapestries.
04/26/05
Ted Kooser is a poet of the everyday, a keen observer of small moments.
04/26/05
A new collection illustrates how William Matthews' poems reveal both his public persona and the private man he tried to keep hidden.
04/20/04
In his fifth collection of poetry, Japanese-born Henri Cole lets imagery do the talking.
04/20/04
Heather McHugh's latest offering suffers haphazard rhymes and jarring shifts.
04/20/04
Franz Wright spent years battling depression and substance abuse, searching for the father who abandoned him.
10/16/03
In his collected works, Robert Lowell swings from formal to raw.
04/24/03
Reviews of the top 10 books on the Book Sense poetry book list.
11/07/02
Susan Minot, a novelist of tumultuous romance, turns her pen to poetry.
11/07/02
An eloquent collection which returns one with added relish to Shakespeare's works.
04/25/02
Carl Dennis earns the Pulitzer Prize with poetry that honors many common deities.
04/04/02
By Brad Leithauser. A butterfly scientist discovers he must fall to soar.
04/11/02
Albert Goldbarth's poetry delivers bizarre beauty.
04/11/02
Billy Collins captures the ordinary in language all can hear.
10/25/01
After a half century, Anthony Hecht still speaks with eloquent rage.
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