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William Logan

William Logans most recent book of poetry, Strange Flesh (Penguin), was published last year.

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The sovereign ghost of Wallace Stevens | October 2009

On the poets place in the American Pantheon & the new Selected Poems, edited by John N. Serio.


You betcha! | June 2009

On Ballistics by Billy Collins; Selected Poems by Thom Gunn, edited by August Kleinzahler; Substrate by Jim A. Powell; The Mind-Body Problem by Katha Pollitt; Sonata Mulattica by Rita Dove; and It Is Daylight by Arda Collins.


Mug shot | May 2009


Heaney's ghosts | April 2009

A review of Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney, by Dennis O’Driscoll (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux).


Shock & awe | December 2008

On Red Bird by Mary Oliver, Ours by Cole Swensen, Letters to a Stranger by Thomas James, Warhorses by Yusef Komunyakaa, Figure Studies by Claudia Emerson, One Secret Thing by Sharon Olds.

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