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I Lay My Stitches Down: Poems of American Slavery by Cynthia Grady

On February 1, 2012, in Book Reviews, Fiction, History, Nonfiction, Poetry, by Wilfried F. Voss

This moving and eloquent set of poems, brought to life by vivid and colorful artwork from Michele Wood, offers a timeless witness to the hardship endured by America’s slaves. Each poem is supplemented by a historical note.

The Solitudes: A Dual-Language Edition with Parallel Text by Luis de Gongora

On December 16, 2011, in Book Reviews, Fiction, Poetry, by Wilfried F. Voss

A towering figure of the Renaissance, Luis de Góngora pioneered poetic forms so radically different from the dominant aesthetic of his time that he was derided as “the Prince of Darkness.” The Solitudes, his magnum opus, is an intoxicatingly lush novel-in-verse that follows the wanderings of a shipwrecked man who has been spurned by his lover.

Look, I Made a Hat: Collected Lyrics (1981-2011) with Attendant Comments, Amplifications, Dogmas, Harangues, Digressions, Anecdotes and Miscellany by Stephen Sondheim

On December 9, 2011, in Book Reviews, Entertainment, Essays, Fiction, Music, Poetry, by Wilfried F. Voss

After his acclaimed and best-selling Finishing the Hat (named one of the New York Times 10 Best Books of 2010), Stephen Sondheim returns with the second volume of his collected lyrics, Look, I Made a Hat, giving us another remarkable glimpse into the brilliant mind of this living legend, and his life’s work.

Head Off & Split: Poems by Nikky Finney

On December 4, 2011, in Book Reviews, Fiction, Poetry, by Wilfried F. Voss

The poems in Nikky Finney’s breathtaking new collection Head Off & Split sustain a sensitive and intense dialogue with emblematic figures and events in African American life: from civil rights matriarch Rosa Parks to former secretary of state Condoleezza Rice, from a brazen girl strung out on lightning to a terrified woman abandoned on a rooftop during Hurricane Katrina.

Higher Gossip: Essays and Criticism by John Updike

On November 29, 2011, in Book Reviews, Essays, Nonfiction, Poetry, by Wilfried F. Voss

A collection both intimate and generous of the eloquent, insightful, beautifully written prose works that John Updike was compiling when he died in January 2009. Updike’s criticism is gossip of the highest order, delivered in an intimate and generous voice.

“Something Urgent I Have to Say to You”: The Life and Works of William Carlos Williams by Herbert Leibowitz

On November 28, 2011, in Biographies & Memoirs, Book Reviews, History, Nonfiction, by Wilfried F. Voss

Leibowitz’s biography offers a compelling description of the work that inspired a seminal, controversial movement in American verse, as well as a rounded portrait of a complicated man: pugnacious and kindly, ambitious and insecure, self-critical and imaginative.

Rome and Rhetoric: Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar by Garry Wills

On November 27, 2011, in Book Reviews, History, Nonfiction, by Wilfried F. Voss

Renaissance plays and poetry in England were saturated with the formal rhetorical twists that Latin education made familiar to audiences and readers. Yet a formally educated man like Ben Jonson was unable to make these ornaments come to life in his two classical Roman plays. Garry Wills, focusing his attention on Julius Caesar, here demonstrates how Shakespeare so wonderfully made these ancient devices vivid, giving his characters their own personal styles of Roman speech.

Leaving the Atocha Station – A Novel About A Young American Poet by Ben Lerner

On November 10, 2011, in Book Reviews, Fiction, by Wilfried F. Voss

In prose that veers between the comic and tragic, the self-contemptuous and the inspired, Leaving the Atocha Station is a portrait of the artist as a young man in an age of Google searches, pharmaceuticals, and spectacle.

The Wrecking Light – A Poetry Collection by Robin Robertson

On October 23, 2011, in Book Reviews, Fiction, Poetry, by Wilfried F. Voss

Robin Robertson’s fourth collection is an intense, moving, bleakly lyrical, and at times shocking book. These poems are written with the authority of classical myth, yet sound utterly contemporary.

Kindle Edition: Piano Rats – A Poetry Collection by Franki Elliot

On October 18, 2011, in Amazon Kindle, Book Reviews, Fiction, Poetry, by Wilfried F. Voss

Piano Rats is a collection of delectable prose poetry by a young Chicago writer that calls herself Franki Elliot. What’s it about? It’s about you. Something you said to me five years ago, five days ago, five minutes ago. It’s about sex, honesty, sadness, falling in and out of love, firsts and lasts, awkward moments. It’s my secrets and yours.