Poetry Notes
by Staff -- Publishers Weekly, 9/17/2007
SEPTEMBER PUBLICATIONS
Fans of formal poetry, bird lovers and poetry enthusiasts in general are likely to enjoy To a Nightingale, an anthology of poems about this inspiring bird with contributions from 30 poets ranging from the classical (Sappho, Ovid, Keats) to the modern (Eliot, Borges, Merwin), and an introduction by poet Edward Hirsch. (George Braziller [Norton, dist.] $20 104p ISBN 978-0-8076-1587-4)
In his driving and driven debut, Structure of the Embryonic Rat Brain, Slope Editions editor Christopher Janke offers a breakneck vision of strained consciousness in rolling verse and prose paragraphs: “Out of nothing, a silver planet, possums. Out of nothing, a road, a stream, a man stepping out into traffic.” (Fence [SPD, dist.] $15 96p ISBN 978-1-934200-00-1)
