Both Home & Away: Anthony Moore Reviews Seamus Heaney
District and Circle by Seamus Heaney. FSG, 2006. 76 pages.
Digging for Poems
I fancy I know more about Seamus Heaney’s back than anyone not related to him.… continue reading...
District and Circle by Seamus Heaney. FSG, 2006. 76 pages.
Digging for Poems
I fancy I know more about Seamus Heaney’s back than anyone not related to him.… continue reading...
The Letters of Robert Lowell, edited by Saskia Hamilton. FSG, 852 pages. $40
By: Anthony Moore
Robert Traill Spence Lowell IV (1917-1977) came into the world high on the social ladder.… continue reading...
Ledbury Poetry Festival, July 2004
By: Anthony Moore
I wish Edward Thomas (that poet) were here to ponder gulfs in general with me as in the days when he and I tired the sun with talking on the footpaths and stiles of Ledington and Ryton (Robert Frost, “A Romantic Chasm”)
Those days, at the start of World War I, were among the eleven convivial months when Frost lived near Dymock, in England’s rural Gloucestershire.… continue reading...
Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence Between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell. Edited by Thomas Travisano with Saskia Hamilton. Farrar Straus Giroux, $45.
… continue reading...“Please never stop writing me letters—they always manage to make me feel like my higher self (I’ve been re-reading Emerson) for several days.”
As Reviewed By: Anthony Moore