Poetry magazine review

So, $175 million dollars later many in the small press world might wonder, how are things at Poetry? Might Ruth Lilly still hold her head high, eh? Well, all is much the same, which means the good as well as the bad. Five of twelve featured poets are new to Poetry, so there is hope for the aspiring acolyte. The poem here worth the cover price is Louise Gluck's "Evening Star." Billy Collin's signature irony is more understated than usual, though his impudent take on 'Valery's unfinished poems' is simply flacid audacity. There is fine work by Mary Karr, "Descending Theology: the Resurrection" flashing a momentary Yeatsian brillance. Alexander Theroux makes nothing dazzle brillantly. Joshua Weiner and Tony Hoagland contribute fine work. After the "Poems" is the "Comments" section, which consists of 1 long and 6 short reviews, an insightful exchange on the relevance of the category "women's poetry," and letters to the editor. This section runs 42 pages, the poetry itself taking up only 32. You do the math. If the jury is still out on the endowment, let the tiebreaker go to Ms. Monroe. What, indeed, might she think?

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