Obituary: "Locklin was a defining literary voice on the West Coast and beyond as a writer of poetry, fiction and essays, tracing an evolution from hard-drinking, bear-like bacchanalian to gray...elder statesman of letters."
(Los Angeles Times)
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https://www.latimes.com/obituaries/story/2021-03-03/gerald-locklin-long-beach-poet-dies
Roundup: Melissa Eddy discusses recent work by torrin a. greathouse, Natalie Shapero, Ruth Padel, Gregory Fraser, and Sylvie Baumgartel. (The New York Times)
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https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/02/books/review/new-this-week.html
Column: "The lyrical breadth and depth of Yona Harvey’s second collection of poems...is stunning; the book’s poetic conversation across time and space deliciously resists easy categorization or summary."
(Women's Voices for Change)
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https://womensvoicesforchange.org/yona-harvey-you-dont-have-to-go-to-mars-for-love.htm
Review: "These days we forget that when Wordsworth died in 1850 it was Barrett, rather than Tennyson, who was most often mentioned as the next poet laureate."
(The Guardian)
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https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/feb/24/two-way-mirror-by-fiona-sampson-review-a-fine-life-of-elizabeth-barrett-browning
Essay: "Poetry has a perfect integrity, just like a mathematical equation that has only one result. All of the elements lead to this result, & the inevitability of the equation—as if a human fate written in the stars—is clear."
(LA Review of Books)
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https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/star-vehicle-on-translating-poetry/
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