Mark Rudman writes an excellent review of Anne Carson which goes, I think correctly, well beyond the first impression of miscellany that collection gave me. I will wait patiently for the paperback, or for my birthday (October 2!). And now I'd like to share with you this plea from the editors of New American Writing:

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Dear Friend of New American Writing:

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The current issue, No. 23, was published in June. It contains new poems by Mahmoud
Darwish; The Black Heralds of César Vallejo, translated by Clayton Eshleman; a
selection of contemporary Vietnamese poetry translated by Nguyen Do and Paul Hoover;
edited by Todd Swift, the work of twenty younger Canadian poets including Christian
Bök and Lisa Robertson; and poetry by Donald Revell, George Albon, Elizabeth
Robinson, Andrew Joron, Clayton Eshleman, Stacy Doris, Laynie Browne, Linh Dinh,
Joseph Lease, Anna Rabinowitz, Timothy Liu, Sally Keith, and Aaron Shurin, among
many other outstanding U.S. poets.

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