Jul 4 2008
The Modern Element: Essays on Contemporary Poetry, by Adam Kirsch
“Kirsch wrote these 27 pieces for magazine publication, and most are good and short (but sometimes, as with his piece on Philip Larkin, the word limit crimps him, making one wonder why he didn’t expand and extend particular essays for the book). He illuminates one postwar living or dead poet after another, from Derek Walcott [...]
