The Elegant Variation links to best books of 2005 lists here and here. The latter link has much else besides that is more interesting than the lists.
Joel Weishaus, a poet and co-author (with David Rosen) of The Healing Spirit of Haiku has begun a series of digital critiques. The first takes a pretty thorough and imaginative look at David Budbill's Moment to Moment and While We've Still Got Feet. I read While We've Still Got Feet this past summer, thinking to review it. But I disliked it intensely. Joel -- who, by the way, has reviewed for The Inquirer -- evidently thinks better of it.
Finally, here is a link to the blog of Peter Stothard, editor of the TLS.
Frank:
ReplyDeleteInteresting that you think I liked Budbill's "While We Still got Feet." In fact I told the Marketing Director for Copper Canyon Press that I couldn't write on it because it's quality is so low. But "Moment to Moment" is a little better, so I concentrated on it. What I'm looking for are books that raise issues that I'm interested in, and Budbill--as poor as much of his poetry is--raises some of these, as seen in my critique.
-Joel