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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewWant to know the state of contemporary poetry? Open this wonderful collection of criticism at any point and just start reading... Logan's criticism is filled with both insight and delight, revealing him as our 21st-century Samuel Johnson. Library Journal (starred review) [Logan's] sentences crackle with insight, intelligence, wit, and the despair of a prophet who sees the estate of poetry in ruins. Booklist Rich, allusive, and pleasurable. -- Craig Morgan Teicher Georgia Review Those who aspire to the study or practice of 'our savage art' could do no better than read this and Logan's other collections; they are a masterclass in how to read. -- Duncan Wu Times Higher Education Infuriating and charming in turns, Logan--poet, critic, and reviewer of poetry--is never uninteresting... Recommended. Choice The "guilty pleasure" of reading these reviews is how well they are written, and how funny they often are. -- David Starkey Santa Barbara Independent
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Against Aesthetics The Unbearable Rightness of Criticism Verse Chronicle: Shock and Awe Verse Chronicle: You Betcha! The Sovereign Ghost of Wallace Stevens Eliot in Ink Larkin's Toads Verse Chronicle: From Stinko to Devo Verse Chronicle: Trampling Out the Vintage Frost's Notebooks: A Disaster Revisited Heaney's Chain Heaney's Ghosts Verse Chronicle: Weird Science Verse Chronicle: Blah Blah Blah World War II Poetry, Reloaded Frank O'Hara's Shopping Bag The Village of Louise Gluck Verse Chronicle: Civil Wars Verse Chronicle: Guys and Dove Nobody's Perfect: The Letters of Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell Elizabeth Bishop at the New Yorker Elizabeth Bishop at Summer Camp A Critic's Notebook A List of Don'ts Permissions Books Under Review Index of Authors Reviewed
