Sam Rowe

Author Archive

  • October 22, 2012
    Cole Swensen’s new collection of poetry, Gravesend, is a meditation on ghosts and ghost stories. It comes on the heels of several strong offerings from Swensen, a prolific...
  • July 28, 2012
    What Are Poets For?, a new collection of essays on poetry and poetics by critic/philosopher Gerald L. Bruns, is rather cryptically subtitled “an anthropology of contemporary...
  • March 2, 2012
    One of the first essays in Life Sentences: Literary Judgements and Accounts, a new non-fiction collection by octogenarian novelist, literary critic, and emeritus philosophy...
  • January 18, 2012
    First, a word of caution: Buffet World, the latest from Vancouver-based visual and conceptual poet Donato Mancini, may ruin your appetite. Buffet World is Mancini’s ...