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Sample Reviews and Essays

 

Some typical reviews

A review of Louise Gluck’s Collected Poems
On James Longenbach and Fani Papageorgiou
A piece on the poet Michael O’Brien
A review of Ted Hughes’s letters
A piece on Tomas Transtromer
An appreciation of Stevie Smith
On Jack Gilbert
Poetry and the Public: Four Reviews

Some more discursive pieces

An essay on poetic “greatness”
An essay/review of a book called Poetry and the Law
An essay on beach reading, sort of
An essay on epigraphs

Two quirkier pieces

A Billy Collins review as a Billy Collins poem
An allegorical piece for the Virginia Quarterly Review

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