Actually I liked Robertson's book - it was an unexpected surprise
when it came through the door one day early this year.
Also news today is that Michael Palmer has won the Wallace Stevens
award:
(this from Carcanet's e-letter)
Michael Palmer has been awarded the 2006 Wallace Stevens Award from
the Academy of American Poets. The $100,000 prize recognizes
outstanding mastery in the art of poetry. Judge Robert Hass said of
Palmer: '[He] is the foremost experimental poet of his generation,
and perhaps of the last several generations - a gorgeous writer who
has taken cues from Wallace Stevens, the Black Mountain poets, John
Ashbery, contemporary French poets, the poetics of Octavio Paz, and
from language poetries…one of the most original craftsmen at work in
English at the present time.'
Born in New York and educated at Harvard, Michael Palmer has lived in
San Francisco for more than 30 years. He is the author of numerous
books of poetry, including The Lion Bride (Carcanet, 1999), which
includes the poet's own selections from seven of his collections,
including Blake's Newton, The Circular Gates, Without Music, Notes
for Echo Lake and At Passages.
I wonder if any of that stuck in Robert Hass's throat as he said it.
Tony
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