Ravage
Ravage, Jan Beatty's limited edition 2012 chapbook, worked better for me than her recent collection, The Switching Yard. All but two of the poems in this chapbook also appear in The Switching Yard, but here they feel more equivalent in tone, and less repetitive.
The chapbook poems hit like a series of heavy jabs, with no feints, no head fakes. The poem "Dear American Poetry," felt overly bratty (though, sadly, accurate) when I read it in the book; but here it fits the tone, and needs no apology.
CBsIP: The Wallet of Kai Lung, Ernest Bramah
Claims for Poetry, Donald Hall, ed.
My Àntonia, Willa Cather
Best American Essays 2010, Christopher Hitchens, ed.
The Successful Novelist, David Morrell
James Durand, An Able Seaman of 1812, by James Durand
The chapbook poems hit like a series of heavy jabs, with no feints, no head fakes. The poem "Dear American Poetry," felt overly bratty (though, sadly, accurate) when I read it in the book; but here it fits the tone, and needs no apology.
CBsIP: The Wallet of Kai Lung, Ernest Bramah
Claims for Poetry, Donald Hall, ed.
My Àntonia, Willa Cather
Best American Essays 2010, Christopher Hitchens, ed.
The Successful Novelist, David Morrell
James Durand, An Able Seaman of 1812, by James Durand