"shuffling the terms"

John Latta, at Isola di Rifiuti, offers an appreciative review of C.S. Giscombe's new collection, Prairie Style, and traces echoes of Stevens, Olson, Ammons, and Mackey through the book—the sort of reading and writing I wish I had the time for myself, right now.

With so much to write about—the acquisitions freeze at Houghton-Mifflin Harcourt, the dullness of the annual "Notable Books" and "Best Books" lists from the New York Times, Daniel Green's recent post about print and online literary magazines at The Reading Experience—I hope to post more of my thoughts in this space soon. I've spent most of my blogging time this fall—happily and productively—with my creative writing students, as well as a good deal of time working on something that's noted in my profile, and that I'll note here in a more public way at some point soon.