In Broken Ground, William Logan explores the works of canonical and
contemporary poets, rediscovering the lushness of imagination and
depth of feeling that distinguish poetry as a literary art. The
book includes long essays on Emily Dickinson's envelopes, Ezra
Pound's wrestling with Chinese, Robert Frost's letters, Philip
Larkin's train station, and Mrs. Custer's volume of Tennyson, each
teasing out the depths beneath the surface of the page. Broken
Ground also presents the latest run of Logan's infamous poetry
chronicles and reviews, which for twenty-five years have bedeviled
American verse. Logan believes that poetry criticism must be both
adventurous and forthright-and that no reader should settle for
being told that every poet is a genius. Among the poets under
review by the "preeminent poet-critic of his generation" and "most
hated man in American poetry" are Anne Carson, Jorie Graham, Paul
Muldoon, John Ashbery, Geoffrey Hill, Louise Gluck, John Berryman,
Marianne Moore, Frederick Seidel, Les Murray, Yusef Komunyakaa,
Sharon Olds, Johnny Cash, James Franco, and the former archbishop
of Canterbury. Logan's criticism stands on the broken ground of
poetry, soaked in history and soiled by it. These essays and
reviews work in the deep undercurrents of our poetry, judging the
weak and the strong but finding in weakness and strength what
endures.
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