Close Calls With Nonsense

Looks like Paul Millar’s selection from the poems of the great New Zealand poet- polemicist-visionary James K. Baxter has now been published in Britain. I can’t really praise him enough, though I’ve tried. If you care about modern poetry in English beyond the bounds of the United States, and you don’t own a Selected Baxter, you need one; and if you care about modern poetry in English, but only within the bounds of the United States, that’s kind of parochial, don’t you think?

Also new and wonderful, though not quite in the same way: thanks to Jessie, the book covers to the left of this post now reflect my next book, co-written with David Mikics. We’ve also brought up to date the part about me.