There is an exceptional current of linguistic music that careens beneath Anna Evans’ poetry of irrepressible desire and botched relationships that give her work its unique, luxuriant power of insight and acceptance. One suspects this is owed to her Britishness, and a sound education in metrical poetry. But I believe she simply possesses a wicked […]
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Marion Wrenn: Introductions, a series
“Letter to Brooks,” Major Jackson’s tour de force poem in Hoops (2006), is a daring act of publicly intellectual intimacy. An “epistolary chat,” the poem is an unfurling act of gratitude. We witness Jackson bearing witness to luck and legacy, to the happy accident of knowing your idols—and the ripple effect of shepherding those generous […]