yeah, I noticed the truncation too – though rather than curious it
seems basic NTBR policy – anything to do with poetry, & especially non-
SoQ poetry – is free game.
& you are right on about Latta as well,
Pierre
On Jan 19, 2008, at 4:00 PM, Stephen Vincent wrote:
> http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/20/books/review/Chiasson-t.html?ref=review
>
> Though it seems curiously truncated at the end, there is a
> favorable, enthusiastic review of Mark Scroggin's biography of Louis
> Zukofksy in the Sunday New York Times Book Review.
>
> Would also suggest taking a look John Latta's recent blog posts on
> the Scroggins bio.
> http://isola-di-rifiuti.blogspot.com/
> Latta goes after it (enthusiastically) a bit more like a humming
> bird in a flower farm - but, as usual, I find Latta much better on
> the works that he loves, rather than when he is all tangled up with
> love-hate resentments of Lang-Po - or so it seems to me - in his
> readings of the Grand Piano series. But credit due, it is good to
> see somebody with such visceral responses to the act of reading -
>
> Stephen Vincent
> http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
>
>
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