Selected Reviews

2012

The Last Waltz: Gregor Von Rezzori and the Final Days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire

Originally published in BOOKFORUM February/March 2012.

Spare, Enigmatic Lorine Niedecker

Originally published in TLS February 1, 2012.

The Letters of T.S. Eliot

Originally published in Bookforum (Dec/Jen 2012)

2009

The Letters of Samuel Beckett, Vol. 1 1929-1940

Published in Bookforum , 16, no. 2 (June-August 2009)

2008

Notes from the Air: Selected Later Poems by John Ashbery.

Published in Bookforum, 14 no 4 (Dec/Jan 2008)

Weimar on the Pacific: German Exile Culture in Los Angeles and the Crisis of Modernism.

published in Modernism/Modernity, 15, 2 (2008)

Personally Speaking: Martin Amis. THE SECOND PLANE: September 11: 2001-2007.

Published in the Times Literary Supplement, 14 Feb. 2008, 3-5.

Over the Last Limit. Night Wraps the Sky: Writings by and about Mayakovsky. Edited by Michael Almereyda.

Published in Boston Review, 33, no. 4 (July/August 2008), 45-47.

Where Trees do their Witchy Dance. Sleeping it off in Rapid City: Poems, New and Selected. By August Kleinzahler.

Published in Times Literary Supplement. July 9, 2008: 11-12.

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2006

Party in the Blitz: The English Years. By Elias Canetti.

published in Bookforum, Dec/Jan 2006.

Torch Song.  Karl Kraus: Apocalyptic Satirist, Volume 2: The Postwar Crisis and the Rise of the Swastika by Edward Timms.

published in Bookforum, 13-2 (June-September 2006): 20-21.

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2005

“Dreams of Weeds”: THE DANCERS INHERIT THE PARTY. Early stories, plays and poems. Ian Hamilton Finlay, edited by Ken Cockburn.

published in Times Literary Supplement, April 29, 2005, p. 26.

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2004

Victorian Modernism: Pragmatism and the Varieties of Aesthetic Experience by Jessica Feldman

Published in ELT, 47, 1: 2004: 90-94.

The Return of Robert Lowell

Published in Parnassus 27, no. 1 and 2,(Winter, 2004): 76-102.

The Cubist Painters .   Guillaume Apollinaire

Translated, with commentary, by Peter Read.

Fluxier-than-Thou

published in Modernism/Modernity, 11, no. 3 (2004): 282-87.

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2003

The Language of New Media By Lev Manovich

Published in Common Knowledge 9. 2, 2003

Review of Susan Howe, Susan Bee, Bed Hangings

Published in Common Knowledge 9:2 (2003): 341-42.

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2002

“The Rescue of the Singular,” George Oppen’s New Collected Poems

Published in CL, 43, no. 2 (September 2002): 560-69.

“The Hell Below Brooklyn Bridge,” review of Clive Fisher, Hart Crane

Published in TLS August 30, 2002, p. 9 (full page).

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2001

Still Time for Surprises: John Ashbery’s Recent Books

published in Thumbscrew, 18 (Spring 2001): 46-48.

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1999

John Ashbery, Girls on the Run: A Poem

published in Stand, December 1999, 13-16.

Michel Delville, The American Prose Poem: Poetic Form and the Boundaries Of Genre.

Prose Poem, 8 (Summer 1999), pp. 134-38.

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1998

“Paper Chase”: The Picasso Papers,  by Rosalind Krauss.

(see also Letter to the Editor – Response to Yves Alain Bois)

published in Bookforum, April 1998, pp. 37, 40. And see Letter to the Editor Column in May Issue, response to Yves Alain Bois.

“Triplespace” (on Hank Lazer)

published in Virginia Quarterly Review, (Spring 1998). 381-90.

“To Wonder Without Becoming Dry.” Artificial Heart by Peter Gizzi. Burning Deck.

Boston Book Review, 5-6 (August 1998): 34-35.

Ted Hughes. Birthday Letters.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998

The Witch of Truth (Laura Riding)

Parnassus, 23. No. 1 (1998): 334-53.

FASCISM’S OTHER. Le Livre noir du communisme: Crimes, terreur, répression

American Book Review, 20.1 (November/December 1998): 16-17.

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1997

The Coming of Age of Language Poetry. Out of Everywhere by Maggie O’Sullivan. The Marginalization of Poetry by Bob Perelman.

published in Contemporary Literature, 28 (Sept. 1997), pp. 558-68.

Druckwerks

Published in Textual Practice, Volume 11, Issue 1 Spring 1997 , pages 133 – 142.

Yeats’s Political Identities: Selected Essays

Published in ANQ 10, no. 4 (Fall 1997): 53-55.

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1996

Bertrand Russell, The Spirit of Solitude

Published in Washington Times, 20 Oct. 1996, B7-8.

The Granite Butterfly by Parker Tyler

Published in William Carlos Williams Review, 22, no. 1 (Spring 1996): 103-11.

The Mina Loy Mysteries

Published in American Book Review, 18, no. 1 (Oct-Nov. 1996): 16-17, 26.

Modern Epic: The World-System from Goethe to García Márquez

Published in Electronic Book Review 4 (Winter 1996/97).

Looking for The Real Carl Rakosi: Collecteds and Selecteds

Published in Journal of American Studies, 30 (1996): 2, 271-283.

Forbidden Entries. By John Yau.

published in Boston Review, 22, 3-4 (Summer 1997): 39-41.

Sentence not Sentence

(review of Steve McCaffery, The Cheat of Words, Tom Raworth, Clean and Well Lit, Susan Howe, Frame Structures: Early Poems 1974-79, Vincent Bugliosi, Outrage: The Five Reasons Why O. J. Simpson got away with Murder)

Published in Sulfur #39 Fall 1996): 139-51.

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1995

Songs in Flight, The Collected Poems of Ingeborg Bachmann.

Edited and translated by Peter Filkins.

ALCOOLS. POEMS BY GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE

Translated by Donald Revell. from Boston Review

Anna Akhmatova in Translation

published in PN Review 163 (May-June 2005): 28-35.

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