The Spoils: December 2012

1. A Broken Thing: Poets on the Line (excerpts here and here, introductions here)
   
2. Novel Pictorial Noise by Noah Eli Gordon (reviews here and here and here and here)
3. Elegy by Mary Jo Bang (reviews here and here and here and  here and here)
4. Skirmish by Dobby Gibson (review and Book Notes track list)
5. Selected Poems and Prose of Paul Celan, trans. John Felstiner (excerpt here and here, review here and here and here and here and here, essay here and here and here)

Reading Reading Between A&B

I’ve only discovered the archives of now-defunct Reading Between A&B site, and while I wish some poems were still up (say, those by Matthea Harvey, Cole Swensen, and Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, to name only three), I’m quite pleased about the poems that are still there. Right now, I’m enjoying:

1. Brian Teare, particularly for the variable shapes of his poems: linear, structural, and sonic
2. John Gallaher, particularly for how his themes take form in precise diction and syntax
3. Mary Jo Bang, particularly for the assonance, consonance, and alliteration she displays