Charles Olsen and His Forces (on A Guide to the Maximus Poems of Charles Olson by George F. Butterick; Charles Olson: Call Him Ishmael by Paul Christensen; Olson’s Push: Origin, Black Mountain and Recent American Poetry by Sherman Paul; &Charles Olson: The Scholar’s Art by Robert von Hallberg)
on Life Among Others by Daniel Halpern; The Late Hour by Mark Strand; Kicking the Leaves by Donald Hall; Tread the Dark by David Ignatow; & The Year of Our Birth by Sandra McPherson
Shields, Ruins, and Togus: Old Literary History (on Dr. Woodward’s Shield: History, Science and Satire in Augustan England by Joseph M. Levine; Ruins and Empire: The Evolution of a Theme in Augustan and Romantic Literature by Laurence Goldstein; & Augustus Caesar in “augustan” England: The Decline of a Classical Norm by Howard D. Weinbrot)
