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From: Poetry[(review date September 2000) In the following review of recent books on prosody, including Oliver's A Handbook for Writing and Reading Metrical Verse, Shaw discusses Oliver's poetic theories, admiring her idealism, but...
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From: Poetry[In the review below, Shaw praises Song's treatment of family life, but echoes other critics in the opinion that Song's talent would better served by tighter composition and editing, curbing her tendency to “meander.”]...
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From: Poetry[(essay date May 1998) In the following essay, Shaw examines the poetry of Cunningham and Edgar Bowers, a poet with whom Cunningham is often compared, finding that except for a few similarities of temperament and taste,...
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From: Poetry[In the following review of A Silence Opens, Shaw praises Clampitt's ability to impose an order upon the multitude of small details that leads the reader to the poem's moral message.] Amy Clampitt's latest book [A...
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From: Poetry[(review date April 1986) In the following review, Shaw offers a positive assessment of Paley's verse in Leaning Forward, but notes that Paley's fiction is more accomplished.] I doubt that Grace Paley's reputation as a...
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From: Poetry[(review date December 1982) In the following excerpt, Shaw argues that Pollitt is most insightful when she remains detached from her subjects.] At the center of Katha Pollitt's Antarctic Traveller, her first book, are...
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From: The Contemporary Narrative Poem: Critical Crosscurrents[(essay date 2012) In the following excerpt, Shaw compares four historical poems by different poets, including Hoffman’s Brotherly Love, pointing out that a “crucial component” of that work is the “depressing story” of...
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From: The NationThe great simplicities, the essential themes, sound trite in summary, and the challenge to the poet is to insure that they will not sound trite when he invokes them in his poem. [In his Collected Poems, Howard] Nemerov...
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From: Poetry[(review date April 1988) In the following review, Shaw commends Jacobsen's poetry for "the consistency with which she unites firmness of technique with intelligence and feeling."] How many poets do we have who can...
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From: New RepublicIn the acknowledgments on the copyright page of Charles Simic's latest book the usual paragraph thanking the editors of little magazines concludes with this sentence: “I also wish to thank the John Simon Guggenheim...
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From: Poetry[(review date December 1982) In the following excerpt, Shaw argues that Pollitt is most insightful when she remains detached from her subjects.] At the center of Katha Pollitt's Antarctic Traveller, her first book, are...