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Larry Eigner’s work has been foundational for contemporary American poetry. What was missing was the biography, which now, thanks to the storied Modern and Contemporary Poetics series of the University of Alabama Press, edited by Charles Bernstein and Hank Lazer, we have. Jennifer Bartlett’s Sustaining Air: The Life of Larry Eigner, is a terrific book. I, as they say, couldn’t put it down, finishing it in a day, and wishing for more.

Kamran Javadizadeh on the writer’s fourth collection, which flickers between prose and verse.

'The Lights,' by acclaimed novelist Ben Lerner, is a poetry collection but so much more — part of a project that makes us question how we experience time.

The title of Richard Hell’s new book of poems, What Just Happened, can be taken in several ways. It could be referring to some very recent occurrence, or it could be pointing to an event that appears to lack all cause or reason. With the addition of a question mark, which though absent may be implied, “What Just Happened?” becomes an expression of shock or wonder or puzzlement.

Donald Trump, the first former president to have a public jail mugshot, is accused of multiple crimes related to intefering in the 2020 election in Georgia.

Back slang is kind of like a lexical puzzle that everyone from costermongers and criminals of the Victorian era to today’s Wordle fans can appreciate.

Stephen Fredman graduated from Point Loma High School in a large class of 900 students in 1966. I was there - that was my class too. Like many alums, Stephen left this "waspish, uncool Navy town" and he ended up teaching modern American poetry and poetics at the University of Notre Dame for 37 years.…

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New Directions covers from the mid-twentieth century are easy to spot but difficult to describe, often using pictures to describe words rather than the other way around.

IMENTIONED in the first of these essays, a fortnight ago, the occasion at which my wife Rae and I listened to Liz reading these poems. It was a