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Book reviews: Poetry 1997

Book reviews below are from the weekly and Sunday Boston Globe from January, 1997 to December, 1997. Reviews for non-fiction and fiction are also available.

Bidart, Frank
Desire
Verses of things past, 10/12/97

Ferry, David
Ode of Horace
The essential Roman, 11/2/97

Hill, Geoffrey
Canaan
Verses of things past, 10/12/97

Jackson, Alison
I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Pie
Dinner on the fly, 11/16/97

Kermode, Frank
Richardson, Joan
Stevens, Wallace
Collected Poetry and Prose
His way of saying, 12/28/97

Taback, Simms
There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly
Dinner on the fly, 11/16/97

Vendler, Helen
The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets
Shakespeare's Lyric, 11/30/97

Walcott, Derek
The Bounty
Verses of things past, 10/12/97