BOOKS
The Certainty Dream, Kate Hall, Coach House Books
by Abby Paige
07.02.2010
In a writing workshop, the American poet Ed Ochester once bellowed over one of my poems, “There is no philosophy in poetry.” Generally, I find such grand pronouncements about poetry perplexing and not very helpful, but I made a note of this one. Then I mostly forgot about it until, reading Kate Hall’s debut collection, [...]
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BOOKS
Joy Is So Exhausting, Susan Holbrook, Coach House Books
by Abby Paige
14.12.2009
Susan Holbrook is funny, sometimes enough to make one laugh out loud. In Joy Is So Exhausting, her second collection, she employs a variety of poetic constraints to create poems that surprise and delight without being too cute or comfortable. Constraint-based poems often read as though they must have been much more fun for the [...]
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