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On reviewing poetry
Irish poet W.B. Yeats Reviewing a volume of poetry is much different than reviewing some genre of prose work. It is so difficult that many literary publications have stopped doing poetry reviews all...
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Poetry Review: “Journey of the Magi” by T. S. Eliot
Available at Amazon.com There are two sides to T.S. Eliot. The first is the existential writer, of “Prufrock” and the “Wasteland.” This is the Eliot of English classes and universities, of late night...
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Life distilled
T. S. Eliot reading One the many things I have collected over the years is quotes about poetry and poets. For years, I used to keep and record my favorite quotes about poetry in a leather-bound journal...
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Book Review: Can Poetry Matter by Dana Gioia
This is the fifth book review in the series “Poets on Poetry.” Reviews of books in this series can be found at “Poets on Poetry.” Dana Gioia began his literary career as an outsider. Like two poets he...
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Book Review: “On Poetry and Poets” by T.S. Eliot
This is the sixth book review in the series “Poets on Poetry.” Reviews of books in this series can be found at “Poets on Poetry.” According to an article at Wikipedia, Eliot is “arguably the most...
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300 Posts, 300 Books I Am Glad I’ve Read
Today’s posting marks the 300th post on MontanaWriter, a nice round number. Round numbers are hard to resist. There is a something complete and satisfying in their shape… in what they symbolize: the...
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Some words to live by
As an avid collector of quotes and lines of poetry, I often find myself with unattributed lines and mis-attributed quotes. The internet, though efficient in locating and aggregating information, is...
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Writers and their typewriters
The Underwood 319 Bitter cold has returned to the North Country. Below zero nights and daytime highs in the single digits have chased us inside again. We are indoor people once again watching the cold...
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