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CultureJanuary 16, 2013
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CultureJanuary 4, 2012
Anxious and Paralyzed: On Spahr, Gordon, Moschovakis and Ossip
Books by four poets about big modern systems whose results and failures seem inescapable.
Stephen Burt
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CultureJanuary 27, 2011
The Weasel's Tooth: On W.B. Yeats
W.B. Yeats’s poems on Ireland contemplate failures: not of poetry but of public life in all its forms.
Stephen Burt
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PoetryDecember 16, 2004
Versed in Adventure
Few modern poets served so long an apprenticeship as Basil Bunting, none had so adventurous a life and few poets' lives have produced such lasting rewards.
Stephen Burt
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PoetryApril 24, 2003
The Revell Variations
How much, in just twenty years, Donald Revell has changed! From the Abandoned Cities (1983), his debut volume, included a villanelle, a sestina, rhymed sonnets and meditative terza rima.
Stephen Burt
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PoetryMarch 28, 2002