[New-Poetry] Longenbach reviews a selection of poetry books

[JforJames at aol.com]

My friend Dennis noticed this nifty paragraph from  the James Longenbach 
review....
 
Most of Bellows’s poems tell one story, rather than intertwining several,  
but these lines are nonetheless typical of his formal procedures. The lines are  
so long that they rarely cut against the sentences, shaping the syntax; as a  
result, the poems can settle a bit comfortably into the single-minded task of 
 storytelling. The stories are gripping, to be sure, but stories become poems 
 when they’re written by someone who likes to think about a sentence for a 
really  long time, rearranging it, troubling it, rather than writing another 
one. What  we call form — lines, rhymes, leaps — is a way of keeping down 
production.
 
 
 
In a message dated 8/1/2007 3:30:09 PM Eastern Daylight Time, JforJames  
writes:


_http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/22/books/review/Longenbach-t.html?ex=118611360
0&en=0b54fd636f91b15c&ei=5070_ 
(http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/22/books/review/Longenbach-t.html?ex=1186113600&en=0b54fd636f91b15c&ei=5070) 


FYI... recent James Longenbach review in NYTimes  Book Review.




 



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