[New-Poetry] National Bellows reviewed

[Halvard Johnson]

Please, one good reason to read Joan Houlihan?
Oh, yeah, because she's there.

Hal

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On Jul 31, 2007, at 2:33 PM, jforjames at aol.com wrote:

> http://www.cprw.com/Houlihan/bellows.htm
> As Reviewed By:
> Joan Houlihan
> Pretty Pieces
>
> Why Speak? by Nathaniel Bellows. W.W. Norton, 2007. 110 pages.
>
>
> Why speak? A good question. But this debut collection provokes more  
> specific questions: In what way are these poems not short, short,  
> stories? What governs their line breaks? Where is the power of  
> trope, concision, sound, rhythm, the one right image that radiates  
> from an emotional center? What drives these poems other than the  
> descriptive, sometimes merely competent, writing of literary fiction?
>
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