Books are listed alphabetically by author or editor. Click on a title to read the review. A Kim Addonizio & Dorianne Laux, The Poet's Companion Chava Albertstein & the Klezmatics, The Well C.E. Amestoy, Making Millennium Maya Angelou, singing, swaying and shouting (lecture review) B Jenny Bitner, Mother Kimberly Blaeser, Trailing You Bertram Brooker, Sounds Assembling: The Poetry of Bertram ...

Editor, Gloria G. Brame Too many people in the modern world view poetry as a luxury not a necessity, like petrol. But to me it's the oil of life. --John Betjeman. Welcome to Thermopylae, a literary ezine for previously published work. Thermopylae offers an eclectic selection of work by and about accomplished contemporary poets. New for June 2000 Poetry by Scott Edward Anderson A new interview ...

POETRY REVIEWS Ezra Pound (Literary Lives) (1981) (Peter Ackroyd 1949-) Let's face it, few of us are likely to hack our way through the thickets (some of them rendered in Chinese) of Ezra Pound's Cantos . Even in college, in a course on modern literature, we didn't actually read the Cantos , instead we read Hugh Kenner's book, The Pound Era . Still, one would like to understand what made Pound ...