Hoof Power: Ox Rock! 05/10/2011
My piece for the NYTimes Dining Section about the joys of farming with oxen! http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/04/dining/04oxen.html Add Comment MAUREEN MCLANE'S FLOATING WORLD 04/05/2011
Maureen N. McLane's two fabulous debut books capture contemporary flux with jagged grace: http://bostonreview.net/BR36.2/tess_taylor_maureen_n_mclane.php Thom Gunn was a quintessential San Francisco poet-- or was he an Elizabethan who just happened to live in the 20th century tenderloin? I examine his Collected Poems, and a new Selected Poems edited by August Kleinzahler here. http://bostonreview.net/BR35.2/taylor.php TWO GREAT BOOKS ON ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE 05/17/2010
Two crazy French cats expore American democracy circa 1830 and find it... well, baffling, enchanting, suspect, promising, romantic, dizzying and not at all like France. Read all about it. Natural History of My Hunger 04/28/2010
Of eating disorders, gardening and my new work on the farm... The Owls Stanza: Spring Awakening 04/22/2010
Spring Awakening Tess's essay on poetry and the first entry in her column: Stanza. In the Barnes & Noble Review Elise Paschen 04/02/2010
Poetry Speaks Who I Am: Poems of Discovery, Inspiration, Independence and Everything Elseby Elise Paschen Tess's review in the Chicago Tribune On the Work of Thom Gunn 03/01/2010
Selected Poems Thom Gunn edited by August Kleinzahler At the Barriers: on the Poetry of Thom Gunn edited by Joshua Weiner Tess's essay in The Boston Review The Best of Poetry 2009 12/03/2009
Twice-Told Tales 09/30/2009
Laurie Sheck and Dan Beachy-Quick re-write the classics Article on the Poetry Foundation website |
