Jackson Taylor
NONFICTION: Skywriting
By Jackson TaylorIt’s a good thing Brazil lies far from New England, for without such continental separation it might have been impossible for the friendship of Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell to have survived.
Poetry: The Problems of Pink and Green
By Jackson TaylorFrederick Seidel is a master builder. Using metaphor and concrete imagery he erects majestic properties of opulent proportion. But what he builds he also destroys, making him a closed system: an architect who contracts with both the muse and the devil.
Non-Fiction: Ted-time Letters
By Jackson TaylorChristopher Reid, who edited Ted Hughes, has done a painstaking and meticulous job of assembling and annotating the poet’s selected letters. He thanks Hughes’s wife Carol for “watching benignly and patiently over the entire operation,” and it could have been no small patience to choose these three hundred dense letters from several thousand that are archived.
Prose Roundup
By Ben Mirov, Mayra David, Jackson Taylor, and Tatiaana LaineFull of innovative stylistic flourishes and classic noir motifs, Abraham Rodriguez’s new crime novel South by South Bronx is infused with the right balance of new and old.
