FORM ABC
POEM / BOOK TITLE
AUTHOR NAME
REAL WEIGHT YES / NO
TARE WEIGHT
ENDURING SIGNIFICANCE: YES / NO
REVIEW PROCESS APPROVED: YES / NO
INSPECTOR NAME
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From: Stephen Vincent <[log in to unmask]>
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Date: Sunday, January 22, 2006 8:13 PM
Subject: Charles Reznikoff Collect/NYT Review
Congratulations to Joshua Clover for today's Sunday NYT Book Review of
Reznikoff's Collected (Black Sparrow). So refreshing to get a poet whose
work has real weight, and enduring significance. (I do wish the paper would
have put up a window on a Reznikoff poem as an example of the work).
I do not know what shapes choices for poetry reviews at the NYT - I hope
they can keep opening it up to other significant work. Reading the Book
Review - decade by decade - I suspect among many of us this is a reoccurring
prayer, to which, "Lot's of luck" is the common, jaded response.
In the meantime thanks to Clover for making, at least, a momentary wedge!
Stephen V
http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
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