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Critical Consensus for 9/1: A Village Life: Poems by Louise Gluck

BNA_Daily | September 1, 2009

Published poetry collections are rare these days, and even rarer is a book of poems that gets reviewed by both the Los Angeles and New York Times on the same day.  Louise Gluck, who William Logan of the New York Times calls “perhaps the most popular literary poet in America,” is back with a collection [...]

Poet Craig Arnold: 1967-2009

BNA_Daily | May 15, 2009

The poetry world is mourning the loss of Craig Arnold, the award-winning poet who was proclaimed dead May 8th after disappearing in Japan in late April.  Arnold went missing while exploring a volcano on the Japanese island Kuchinoerabu-jima, and a team of American trackers eventually followed his trail to a cliff.  Arnold was in Japan [...]