Wednesday, April 22, 2015

The 50 Best American Poetry Books of the Decade so Far

The 50 Best American Poetry Books of the Decade so Far

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No poem in the preceding decade captured the spirit of the times more than Frederick Seidel’s “December.” The product of a Faustian pact, it fixed itself in a fiendish dialectic, a self-canceling logic that likewise trapped the reader like a dying fly — in the politics of the War on Terror, in the axiomatic hell of the Bush presidency. … Read More

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