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Leonard Nathan, 1924-2007
Leonard Nathan, who died in Marin County on June 3, 2007, was one of the most accomplished poets of his generation, but his work is unfamiliar to almost all of the younger poets I correspond or talk with. Think of him as a member of the generation that includes Galway Kinnell, Gregory Corso, Denise Levertov,…
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The Great Enigma, new collected poems by Tomas Tranströmer, translated by Robin Fulton
The Scottish poet Robin Fulton has devoted more than 30 years to rendering Tranströmer's work in English. The results are stunning in their simplicity and penetration. In a 1973 interview, Tranströmer said, "These poems are all the time pointing toward a greater context, one that is incomprehensible to our normal everyday reason. Although they begin…
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on Approximately Paradise, poems by Floyd Skloot
Floyd Skloot has been writing and publishing poetry for thirty years, long enough to have become an intriguing example of how a poet comes into his own. But he is gaining notoriety at large as "the writer who got sick," an identity of convenience promulgated by reviewers of his essays on illness and loss of…