Reviews

One Kind of Everything: Poem and Person in Contemporary America by Dan Chiasson

nick_jenkins's review against another edition

4.0

The chapters on Lowell and Bishop are particularly good; Chiasson's chapters on Bidart and Glück are not as well organized, and the poems he chooses as demonstrations of his points are not as apposite. Or rather they are ("Mock Orange" and "Ellen West" are as rich with meaning and challenge as anything else either wrote), but they seem to twist out of his control in a way that his glosses of Lowell's and Bishop's poems do not.

nick_jenkins's review against another edition

4.0

The chapters on Lowell and Bishop are particularly good; Chiasson's chapters on Bidart and Glück are not as well organized, and the poems he chooses as demonstrations of his points are not as apposite. Or rather they are ("Mock Orange" and "Ellen West" are as rich with meaning and challenge as anything else either wrote), but they seem to twist out of his control in a way that his glosses of Lowell's and Bishop's poems do not.