I'm glad somebody posted about Snodgrass. I only read Heart's Needle a few years ago; certainly he was the least taught member of the so-called confessional school. The casual, chiseled elegance of his verse is a million miles from James Merrill, and a lot warmer than Berryman and Lowell's. Anyway, RIP, and I checked out the Selected Poems from the library yesterday afternoon.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Saturday, 17 January 2009 20:46 (fifteen years ago) link
RIP Christine Brooke-Rose.
Someone I've always meant to read, but never have. Waggish reading Xorandor was the most recent reminder that I should.
Kermode on Brooke-Rose
― woof, Friday, 23 March 2012 09:40 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah I always saw the odd bk about - got the notion she ws a bit post-Ann Quin, etc. but never picked anything up.
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 23 March 2012 10:20 (twelve years ago) link
Sad to say I wasn't aware of her, but that Kermode review makes me want to put that right in the near future.
― red is hungry green is jawless (Noodle Vague), Friday, 23 March 2012 10:25 (twelve years ago) link
i was looking at the zbc just the other day. i should get into her, i guess
― thomp, Friday, 23 March 2012 13:21 (twelve years ago) link
i have read some of the ZBC now i've looked at the cover. it seemed unlikely that i hadn't.
― red is hungry green is jawless (Noodle Vague), Friday, 23 March 2012 17:23 (twelve years ago) link
Not a writer, but RIP Valerie Eliot.
― woof, Monday, 12 November 2012 10:24 (eleven years ago) link
Oh, here's the Telegraph obit.
― woof, Monday, 12 November 2012 10:25 (eleven years ago) link