reviews
On The Sorrow Apartments: Review of Andrea Cohen’s The Sorrow Apartments (Four Way Books). Published in On the Sewall, May 7, 2024.
The Interior of the Exterior: Review of Katie Peterson’s Fog and Smoke (FSG). Published in LA Review of Books, February 18, 2024.
We Have Other Plans: Review of Jorie Graham’s [To] the Last [Be] Human (Carcanet Press) and Bernadette Mayer’s Milkweed Smithereens (New Directions). Published in Arrowsmith Press Journal, Vol. 23, 2023.
Best Barbarian, poems by Roger Reeves: Review of Roger Reeves’ Best Barbarian (W.W.Norton). Published in On the Seawall, May 18, 2022.
The Body and the Butterfly: Review of Fady Joudah’s Tethered to Stars (Milkweed Editions). Published in LA Review of Books, January 20, 2022.
Elizabeth Hardwick, A Literary Lioness Among Lions: Review of Cathy Curtis’s A Splendid Intelligence: The Life of Elizabeth Hardwick (W.W. Norton). Published in The Boston Globe, November 18, 2021.
Nevertheless, She Persisted: Review of Heather Clark’s Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath (Knopf). Published in The Boston Globe, December 15, 2020.
Consider the Octopus: Review of Brenda Shaughnessy’s The Octopus Museum (Knopf). Published in The Critical Flame, June 2019.
After Narrative: Review of C.D. Wright’s Casting Deep Shade (Copper Canyon Press). Published in PN Review, May-June 2019.
Stinging Nettles: Review of Dzvinia Orlowsky’s Bad Harvest (Carnegie Mellon Press). Published in Salamander, Spring 2019.
Torn in the Sky: Review of Ilya Kaminsky’s Deaf Republic and Shane McCrae’s The Gilded Auction Block. Published in The Critical Flame, November-December 2018.
Negative Capability: Review of Dan Beachy-Quick, Of Silence and Song (Milkweed Press). Published in PN Review, May-June 2018.
Agony and Ecstasy of Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop: Review of Kay Redfield Jamison's Robert Lowell: Setting the River on Fire and Megan Marshall's Elizabeth Bishop: A Miracle for Breakfast. Published in The Boston Globe, February 24, 2017.
Ted Hughes: The Unauthorised Life: Review of Jonathan Bate'sTed Hughes: The Unauthorised Life (Harper). Published in The Boston Globe, October 18, 2015.
Art and Astonishment: Review of Andrea Cohen's Furs Not Mine (Four Way Books) and Sandra Lim's The Wilderness (Norton). Published in Salamander, Spring-Summer 2015.
On Elizabeth Bishop: Review of Colm Toibin, On Elizabeth Bishop (Princeton). Published in The Boston Globe, May 3, 2015.
Mapping Kei Miller's Zion: Review of The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion (Carcanet). Published in The Critical Flame, January 2015.
The Sharp White Background: Review of Claudia Rankine's Citizen (Graywolf Press) and Shane McCrae's Forgiveness Forgiveness (Factory Hollow Press). Published in Salamander, Fall-Winter 2014-15.
Review of Glyn Maxwell's On Poetry (Harvard). Published on Harvard Review Online, May 5, 2014.
Half the Seed of Europe: Review of John Greening's To the War Poets (Carcanet). Published in PN Review, Oct. 2014.
The Letters of Robert Frost, Vol. 1 (Harvard). Published in The Boston Globe, March 2, 2014.
Writing Keats: Review of Dan Beachy-Quick's Brighter Than Bright: Keats at Work (Iowa). Published in Prague Revue, January 7, 2014.
Review of Anne Carson's Red Doc> (Knopf). Published in The Wolf, 28, July 2013.
Ancestral Lines: David Ferry's Bewilderment (University of Chicago Press). Published in Salamander, Vol 18, No 1, 2012.
With Robert Lowell and His Circle: Kathleen Spivack's With Robert Lowell and His Circle (Northeastern University Press). Published in The Boston Globe, November 12, 2012.
Time of Useful Consciousness: Lawrence Ferlinghetti's Time of Useful Consciousness (New Directions, 2012). Published in The San Francisco Chronicle, October 29, 2012.
What Happened Yesterday: Beverley Bie Brahic's White Sheets (CB Editions, 2012) and Harry Clifton's The Winter Sleep of Captain Lemass (Wake Forest University Press). Published by TheCommonOnline, Sept 11, 2012.
Writing Somewhat More Free: Martha Collins's White Papers (University of Pittsburgh). Published in The Journal, Summer 2012.
Design: Marsha Pomerantz's The Illustrated Edge (Biblioasis) and Katherine Larson's Radial Symmetry (Yale Series of Younger Poets). Published in Salamander, Vol 17, No 2, 2012.
Post Road Recommendation: Mark Slouka's Essays from the Nick of Time (Graywolf). Published in Post Road Issue 22, 2012.
Life Studies. Review of The Letters of Robert Lowell, edited by Saskia Hamilton (Faber). Published in PN Review, 2006.
What Cat? Which Room? Review of Charles Simic, Selected Poems 1963-2003 (Faber). Published in PN Review, 2005.
