“Even Sincerity”: On the Viability of the Self in Contemporary Poetry (on One Kind of Everything: Poem and Person in Contemporary America by Dan Chiasson; Dark Horses: Poets on Overlooked Poems by Joy Katz and Kevin Prufer; and American Poets in the 21st Century: The New Poetics by Claudia Rankine and Lisa Sewell)

Kevin Clark’s third volume of poems, The Consecrations (2021), is published by Stephen F. Austin State University Press. His second book, Self-Portrait with Expletives (2010), won the Pleiades Press prize. Clark’s poetry appears in The Southern Review, The Georgia Review, The Iowa Review, Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere. A frequent critic for The Georgia Review, he has also published essays in The Southern Review, Papers on Language and Literature, and Contemporary Literary Criticism.