Tag Archives: Barbara Hamby

EARTHOMANIA

April 19, 2010 – 1:16 pm


THIS WEEK: It’s almost Earth Day, and Maya Lin has unveiled her video installation of “What Is Missing?” n the MTV screen in Times Square and photographer Mitch Epstein launched the “What Is American Power?” project, The 2010 Guggenheim Fellows were announced, Tan Lin will be “live re-publishing” his book Seven Controlled Vocabularies, Peter Carey‘s novel Parrot and Oliver in America comes out (tomorrow!), Pavement plays out Coachella, and more! Read on…

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Lynn Emanuel: Mongrelogues

March 22, 2010 – 12:49 pm

Lynn Emanuel I was immediately drawn to Lynn Emanuel’s latest book of poetry Noose and Hook because of the bright yellow cover with a picture of a barking dog on it. The cover, and the fact that it was published by University of Pittsburgh Press which has consistently put out smart poetry collections since 1936 by authors such as Denise Duhamel, Barbara Hamby, and Billy Collins. Noose and Hook is no exception to Pittsburgh’s stellar catalog.

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Rachel Zucker: Poetry Doula

November 2, 2009 – 3:17 pm

Rachel Zucker. Thumbing through the pages of my newly acquired review copies I came across the press release for Rachel Zucker’s latest book Museum of Accidents (Wave Books October 2009). It read “A brutally honest epic of domestic proportions.” I began reading the book and found a brutally honest account of marriage, motherhood, and daily life—the good and bad of it all expressed in a compelling urgency shouting from the pages to be heard.

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Barbara Hamby and the Abecedarian Corset

July 16, 2009 – 11:08 am

barbara08Reading Barbara Hamby is like savoring a fine multi-course meal.

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Denise Duhamel: Reform School Poet

July 8, 2009 – 2:50 pm

Photo by Gary Lanier. Courtesy University of Pittsburgh Press.
My first thought upon encountering Denise Duhamel’s latest poetry collection KA-CHING! was, A poetry book about money? Really?

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