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Parnassus – 2005

Poetry in Review

Volume 28

2005

Sima Rabinowitz

If you haven’t used all your vacation time yet this year, you might want to consider taking a few days off just to read this issue of Parnassus—it’s that good. Don’t plan to travel with it, at 470 pages it’s nearly too big to fit in a carry-on bag. But, if care about intelligent writing and about poetry, however you do it, make room in your life for this issue. If you haven’t used all your vacation time yet this year, you might want to consider taking a few days off just to read this issue of Parnassus—it’s that good. Don’t plan to travel with it, at 470 pages it’s nearly too big to fit in a carry-on bag. But, if care about intelligent writing and about poetry, however you do it, make room in your life for this issue. There is some truly magnificent writing here with something to satisfy every serious reader: essay-reviews (Danielle Ofri on recent anthologies of writing by doctors, Karl Kirchwey on modern verse drama); essays and poems on travel and place (Wendy Steiner on learning she has breast cancer while on a trip to Russia, William Logan on Florida as myth and metaphor, Marsha Pomerantz’s beautiful poem on Kenya); critical essays (Eva Badowska on Wislawa Symborska and Joel Brouwer on C. D. Wright). Whatever you do, don’t skip Eric Murphy Selinger’s essay “Rukeyser Without Commitment,” one of the smartest and sassiest essays I’ve read on Rukeyser. If you’ve always liked her work, you’ll like it better now. If you never been a Rukeyser fan, this essay will change your mind. And if you’ve never read Selinger before (I hadn’t) you’ll be seeking out his work again. [parnassusreview.com/]

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