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Nicholson Baker takes on “The Oxford Book of American Poetry”
Advance word has it the narrator of Nicholson Baker's new novel The Anthologist has some pretty interesting things to say about The Oxford Book of American Poetry (ed. Lehman, 20006) and its two predecessors,…
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From “The Song Remains the Same” by Craig Morgan Teicher
<<< Poet, anthologist and critic David Lehman performs another kind of reassessment in A Fine Romance: Jewish Songwriters, American Songs, the newest entry in the Jewish Encounters series from Nextbook and Schocken, which pairs…
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The Waste Land: Five Limericks [by Wendy Cope]
The Waste Land: Five Limericks I In April one seldom feels cheerful;Dry stones, sun and dust make me fearful;Clairvoyantes distress me,Commuters depress me–Met Stetson and gave him an earful. II She sat on a…
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Back to School [by Jennifer Michael Hecht]
Once upon a time we listened to music on cassette tapes and the tapes sometimes got free of the cassettes. Each cassette held a lot of tape, and there were a lot of cassettes…
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“Poem” [by Rachel Zucker]
Poem The other day Matt Rohrer said, the next time you feel yourself going dark in a poem, just don’t, and see what happens. That was when Matt, Deborah Landau, Catherine Barnett, and I…
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In Over My Head, Pt 1 [by Jim Cummins]
I wanted to make some observations about why our criticism is so bitter and vindictive, instead of respectfully serious, even if sometimes harshly so; and offer some comments about teaching creative writing and the…
