Reviews and Commentary

August 28th, 2008
on Mute Objects of Expression by Francis Ponge, tr. by Lee Fahnestock (Archipelago Books)
August 18th, 2008
on The Body Toxic: How the Hazardous Chemistry of Everyday Things Threatens Our Health, by Nena Baker (North Point Press)
August 14th, 2008
on The Collected Lyric Poems of Luís de Camões, tr. by Landeg White (Princeton University Press)
August 13th, 2008
on Minding the Store: Great Writing About Business, edited by Robert Coles and Albert LaFarge (The New Press)
August 5th, 2008
on Clear All the Rest of the Way, poems by Warren Woessner (The Backwaters Press)
July 27th, 2008
on Intimacies, by Leo Bersani & Adam Phillips (University of Chicago Press)
July 18th, 2008
on Why Poetry Matters, by Jay Parini (Yale University Press)
July 15th, 2008
on Woman of Rome, a life of Elsa Morante, by Lily Tuck (HarperCollins)
June 30th, 2008
on Theories of Falling, poems by Sandra Beasley (New Issues Poetry & Prose)
June 16th, 2008
on Posthumous Keats, a “personal biography” by Stanley Plumly (Norton)