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William Logan

William Logan's edition of John Townsend Trowbridge's lost classic, Guy Vernon, was published by University of Minnesota Press in the spring of 2012. His most recent book of poetry is Strange Flesh (Penguin, 2008). William Logan was born in Boston in 1950 and educated at Yale and the University of Iowa. He is the author of seven volumes of poetry, Sad-faced Men (1982), Difficulty (1985), Sullen Weedy Lakes (1988), Vain Empires (1998), Night Battle (1999), Macbeth in Venice (2003), and The Whispering Gallery (2005). He is also the author of four books of essays and reviews, All the Rage (1998), Reputations of the Tongue (1999, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism), Desperate Measures (2002), and The Undiscovered Country (2005, also a finalist for the National Book Critics Award in Criticism). He has received the Academy of American Poets' Peter I. B. Lavan Younger Poets Award, the National Book Critics Circle's Citation for Excellence in Reviewing, Poetry's J. Howard and Barbara M. J. Wood Prize, Sewanee Review's Allen Tate Prize, Centenary College's Corrington Medal, and the Randall Jarrell Award of the Pegasus Foundation. He teaches at the University of Florida, where he is Alumni/ae Professor of English, and lives in Florida and Cambridge, England.

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Henry James by the Pacific | April 2013

Donald Justice interprets Henry James's time on the West Coast.


Song & dance | December 2012

On Antigonick (Sophokles), by Anne Carson, Nice Weather, by Frederick Seidel, PLACE, by Jorie Graham, Useless Landscape, or A Guide for Boys, by D. A. Powell, Thrall, by Natasha Trethewey, and Song & Error, by Averill Curdy.


Guys & Dove | June 2012

On Almost Invisible by Mark Strand, Odi Barbare by Geoffrey Hill, Selected Poems by Vladimir Nabokov, edited by Thomas Karshan, and The Penguin Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Poetry edited by Rita Dove.


The unbearable rightness of criticism | April 2012

On negative reviews of great poets.


The harbor | January 2012

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Strange Flesh (Poets, Penguin)

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