http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/04/dining/04oxen.html
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 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 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. Spring Awakening Tess's essay on poetry and the first entry in her column: Stanza. In the Barnes & Noble Review Poetry Speaks Who I Am: Poems of Discovery, Inspiration, Independence and Everything Elseby Elise Paschen Tess's review in the Chicago Tribune 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 |