[As news items on my home page get bumped by newer news, I’ll post them here where they can live awhile longer. Here’s the latest.]
Dale Jacobson reviews Marked Men in Rain Taxi. It’s humbling when a poet one admires finds good things to say about one’s own work.
If you don’t know Jacobson’s poetry, pick up Metamorphoses of the Sleeping Beast, Factories and Cities: A Poem in Two Parts, or A Walk by the River to fully appreciate what you’ve been missing.
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I should add that Dale’s editorial efforts were critical to the production of a literary landmark, Copper Canyon’s complete Letter to an Imaginary Friend (Parts I-IV), by Thomas McGrath. Reading McGrath and Jacobson together is like throwing open the window of a room too long closed up. A fresh wind rushes in, and our stuffy notions of what poetry can be are swept away.