Robert Pinsky grew up in Long Branch, N.J., a historic seashore resort described in his recent autobiography Jersey Breaks. His most recent book of poetry is At the Foundling Hospital, with a…
In Pauline Oliveros’s 1971 “Sonic Meditations,” Oliveros intimates that making sounds can lead to “a…
It’s hard to know where to begin with Robin Pecknold’s Wading in Waist-High Water. The collected lyrics of Fleet Foxes, yes, represent the life’s work (so far) of the band’s singer and…
By now the world is full of ecopoetry, but poets of Hila Ratzabi’s caliber don’t…
Performing one’s self is not a new idea, nor is the idea of poetry as a performance of self. But it’s been a long time since I read a book as attentive…