Category: Poetry
7 review(s) found that match this category.
The Actual Moon, the Actual Stars
Fall 2005
While undertaking a 15-minute workout on the elliptical machine at the fitness center, I read a dozen poems from Chris Forhan's 2003 Morse Prize-winning book, The Actual Moon, the Actual Stars. Some poetry lovers might regard this as a shallow gestur...
Categories: Poetry
Tags: Memory
Famous
Winter 2007
When it comes to fame and poetry, the locus classicus surely must be this passage from Milton's "Lycidas": "Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise / (That last infirmity of noble mind) / To scorn delights, and live laborious days." We of t...
Categories: Poetry
Tags: Popular culture
Hiding from Salesmen
Winter 2003
"Talk happiness," wrote the prolific poet Ella Wheeler Wilcox about 125 years ago. "The world is sad enough / Without your woe." The former U.S. poet laureate Billy Collins has largely gone in that direction, and so has Scott Poole ('92 B.S. Psych.; ...
Categories: Poetry
Tags: Humor
In Praise of Fertile Land
Summer 2005
There aren't many anthologies that juxtapose poems by the likes of Robert Frost with those of elementary school kids. In Praise of Fertile Land does, and it works.
My long two-pointed ladder's sticking through a tree Towar...
Categories: Poetry
Tags: Northwest history
Down Along the Sunset
Winter 2002
In this slender volume of 29 poems Benner Cummings ('51 Speech & Hearing Sci.) pays homage to the romance of surfing. Based upon Cummings's years as surfing and swimming coach at San Clemente High School, the poems celebrate the beauty, grace, daring...
Categories: Poetry
Tags: Surfing
New Poets / Short Books, Volume One
Spring 2008
Three collections of poems, by Gwendolyn Cash, Boyd W. Benson, and Lisa Galloway, each numbering something over 20 pages, comprise the first volume of Lost Horse Press's New Poets / Short Books series under the editorship of renowned poet Marvin Bell...
Categories: Poetry
Tags: Anthology
The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers
Winter 2002
How to describe Robinson Jeffers, now 40 years deceased? Visionary or reactionary? Hard-eyed realist or Romantic throwback? The West's answer to the East's Robert Frost? California's anti-type in poetry and politics to John Steinbeck in fiction and p...
Categories: Poetry, Literature
Tags: American West
