What other poetry books have you been reading lately?
I do a lot of book reviewing, mostly for quarterlies but also for newspapers. So I read a lot of poetry, both Canadian and American, for review. I recently reviewed Margaret Atwood’s latest book of poems, Dearly, and Don McKay’s new book, Lurch, both of which I liked a lot. I reviewed Steven Heighton’s Selected Poems for a newspaper review last spring, and found much to like in it as well. I often get assigned the poetry chronicle in The Hudson Review. They send you thirty or forty poetry books, from which you choose four or five, and there are often pleasing discoveries among them. Most recently, I thought Kim Addonizio’s Now We’re Getting Somewhere accomplished and high-spirited. Ken Norris’s South China Sea is a fine book.
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