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POETRY

April 18, 2012

Useless Landscape: A Guide for Boys

By D. A. POWELL

Reviewed by Tess Taylor

A California haunted by death and suffused with sex is the subject of D. A. Powell's biting collection of verse.

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POETRY

April 3, 2012

The Complete Poems of Philip Larkin

By PHILIP LARKIN, Edited by ARCHIE BURNETT

Reviewed by Adam Kirsch

A new collection of Philip Larkin's verse attempts to capture the acerbic poet's work in toto.

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POETRY

December 23, 2011

The Death of King Arthur and Seeing Stars

By SIMON ARMITAGE

Reviewed by Tess Taylor

The poet's new translation of a medieval Arthurian epic -- and some new enchantments of his own.

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POETRY

October 4, 2010

Haunted History

Essay by Tess Taylor

The ghosts of America's past are summoned in these books of verse.

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POETRY

September 14, 2010

Juggling and Digging

By Adam Kirsch

New verse from Seamus Heaney and Paul Muldoon offers complementary visions of the poet's vocation.

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poetry

March 17, 2010

White Egrets

By DEREK WALCOTT

Reviewed by Adam Kirsch

At the age of eighty, a great poet pits his voice against the encroaching shadows.

Daybook

May 18: Parade, the "first modern ballet," premiered in Paris on this day in 1917. The production was a collaboration of some of modernism's most famous -- music by Erik Satie, scenario by Jean Cocteau, costumes by Picasso,…

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In the Margin

Ethan Rutherford and Matt Burgess (Dogfight: A Love Story) on the writing of Rutherford's surreal and fiercely funny story collection The Peripatetic Coffin.

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Minotaur

This newly reissued Cold War classic profiles an Israeli spy obsessed with an English girl half his age, and his attempts to win her love without ever revealing his true identity.

The Innocence Game

Three Chicago journalism students attend an “innocence” seminar that will teach them how to release the wrongfully accused from prison. But as innocents are jailed, a killer roams free, and the students are next on the hit list.

Little Green

Walter Mosley's suave detective Easy Rawlins is back among the living after a literal cliffhanger of a car crash, in pursuit of a LSD-addled boxer roaming Los Angeles, 1967.