HG Essays+Reviews

I I have this animus against the "Conceptual Poetry" phenomenon.  It's not reasonable, it's not informed, it's jus...

Here's a link to my Critical Flame   review of Stolen Air - a book of versions/translations of Osip Mandelstam, by Christian Wiman.

My time is still unbounded. And I have accompanied the rapture of the universe As muted organ pipes Accompany a woman's voice. - Osip ...

Individual poets, whatever their imperfections may be, are driven all their lives by that inner companion of the conscience which is, after...

ODD HIGH FORMALISM As the talking wheels of American Poetry World wring their hands over various issues (including hand-wringing), and gaz...

1 In an early essay, Mandelstam wrote : "for an artist, a worldview is a tool or a means, like a hammer in the hands of a mason, and...

T.S. Eliot's famous concept, the " dissociation of sensibility ", articulated a benchmark for Modernist poetry : the new wri...

It's Friday, it's Shakespeare's birthday ... Henry will talk some more about poetry... Henry has been let us say struggling...

1 April 2010 ushers in the conjunction of National Poetry Month with the vast and bulbous Associated Writing Programs (AWP) Conference ...

Poetry & religion, two different things... I think of religion as social-collective behavior - a cultural phenomenon made up of countl...

1 In an appendix to his book Poetic Affairs (on Paul Celan, Durs Grunbein, Joseph Brodsky, and the kinship each poet shares with Osip Ma...

I. Poetry & Worldview I sent a letter to Poetry magazine, in response to Robert Archambeau 's essay on manifestos. Poetry ...