Alice Oswald’s Falling Awake | Friday Pick
Falling Awake
By Alice Oswald
Cape Poetry
2016, 96 pp
Alice Oswald, one of Britain’s most celebrated poets and an eminent...
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Stephanie Burt’s Advice from the Lights | Friday Pick
Burt’s riddles are a clever solution to the problem of how to communicate specific personal experience in a way that maintains a modicum of the universal, a problem she has explored in her criticism.
The Selected Poetry of Emilio Villa | Friday Pick
When Villa is at his most inventive, he can swerve between the voice of Chaucer and a Milanese chancer in the dark alley of one line.