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Paul Hoover’s second edition of Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology.

A new collection of Adrienne Rich’s poems does not show her at her best.

A new biography shows how the poet Robert Duncan fed a line backward into the labyrinthine history of human imagination.

The Midlands poet Roy Fisher has never aspired to a readership. All the more reason to welcome his Selected Poems.

A new edition of The First English Dictionary of Slang is a saucy survey of the rogue jargon of the late seventeenth century.

Is there a human language without birdsong in it?

Robert Duncan saw in H.D.'s poetry “The story of survival, the evolution of forms in which live survives.”