Books by James McMichael and Complete Book Reviews
James McMichael, Author . Farrar, Straus & Giroux $22 (74p) ISBN 978-0-374-11890-7
McMichael's calm, smart verse essays and poetic narratives attracted critical acclaim, if never a broad following, during the 1980s; his sixth book (the first since 1996's The World at Large: New and Selected
) pursues its intellectual...
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James McMichael, Author University of Chicago Press $25 (70p) ISBN 978-0-226-56106-6
McMichael's ( Four Good Things ) extraordinary long poem, Each in a Place Apart , charts the course of the author's relationship with his second wife, Linda. The two meet during his first marriage, conduct a prolonged affair, eventually get married...
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James McMichael. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $23 (96p) ISBN 978-0-374-17518-4
In his seventh collection, composed of eight long poems, McMichael (Capacity) fusses over questions of what is unseen and what is assumed as he ponders god and the oft-tautological nature of religion. Imagining that he is born from a mere wish, the...
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James McMichael, Author, Alan Shaprio, Translator University of Chicago Press $27.5 (218p) ISBN 978-0-226-56105-9
In this mix of three new poems plus work from four previous books, McMichael, for better and worse, proves himself an intense and gifted renderer of detail. ""The Vegetables,"" from 1971, are stuffed with creepy personifications--an asparagus with ""
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