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\"\"<\/a>This morning I\u2019ve been reading our poetry editor, Robyn Creswell, on the protests in Egypt<\/a>. \u2014Lorin Stein<\/strong><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve just learned that the poet R. F. Langley<\/a>\u2014like me, a Staffordshire lad\u2014has just died. It\u2019s well worth reading Jeremy Harding\u2019s tribute<\/a> to Langley\u2019s \u201cfiber-optic attention\u201d over at the LRB blog, and it\u2019s only a short trip from there to the faintly surreal pastoral world evoked by Langley\u2019s verse<\/a> and journals<\/a>. His playful approach to poetic form and intimate but elliptical voice tilt the reader\u2019s perspective ever so slightly askew. This isn\u2019t nature as seen beneath the microscope, but glimpsed through the looking glass. \u2014Jonathan Gharraie<\/strong><\/p>\n

Earlier this week, I stumbled on Charles Baxter\u2019s short story \u201cPoor Devil\u201d<\/a>. Baxter documents a divorced couple\u2019s last moments and memories together as they clean the \u201chouse where [they] tried to stage [their] marriage,\u201d ending in the couple\u2014eyes closed and arms out\u2014intimately stumbling through the dark together to look for the ex-wife’s purse, \u201cdivorced, but … still married.\u201d Oof. \u2014Sam Dolph<\/strong><\/p>\n

I used to hate it when grown-ups sang the praises of rereading. Then I got old. This week it’s The Counterlife<\/em><\/a> and No. 44, the Mysterious Stranger<\/em><\/a>. I remember there was a waiting list at our school library when this restored edition of Mark Twain\u2019s fantasy novel came out, and that it blew my fourth-grade mind. No wonder. Telepathy, time travel, a clandestine printing press in a dilapidated castle\u2014inhabited by a boy narrator who happens to sound like Mark Twain? I must have thought I’d found the Perfect Book. \u2014L. S.<\/strong><\/p>\n

After finishing Randall Jarrell\u2019s Faust: Part I<\/em><\/a> last week, I switched translators in midstream and have been reading Martin Greenberg\u2019s version of part 2<\/a>. The first act features speaking roles for an olive branch, \u201ca deputation of gnomes,\u201d and a creature named Skin-and-Bones, who changes sex in midspeech. At the end of the act, Faust wrestles with Paris, who is trying to rape the resurrected Helen of Troy. So far, the second act is much, much weirder. \u2014Robyn Creswell<\/strong><\/p>\n

T. S. Eliot\u2019s On Poetry and Poets<\/em><\/a> is a pleasant collection of essays on how and why we write poetry. Eliot argues that he comes to understand his own verse better by reading the critical reaction to it. With last month\u2019s New York Times<\/em> article \u201cWhy Criticism Matters\u201d<\/a> in mind, this is a nice reminder that even the most creative and accomplished writers benefit from an open critical discourse. \u2014Rosalind Parry<\/strong><\/p>\n

This winter\u2019s record-breaking snowfall has given some at the New York Times<\/em> a touch of the poet, with such newsy verse as \u201cEverywhere, the winds whispered and moaned in their secret Ice Age language\u201d and \u201cWinds that had howled like banshees moderated through the day to cello velocities, and Central Park was a child\u2019s dream of winter, with sledders, skiers and strollers out in the drifts, cutting trails to nowhere.\u201d But what do you expect from the masters of the trend piece<\/a>. \u2014Nicole Rudick<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This morning I\u2019ve been reading our poetry editor, Robyn Creswell, on the protests in Egypt. \u2014Lorin Stein I\u2019ve just learned that the poet R. F. Langley\u2014like me, a Staffordshire lad\u2014has just died. It\u2019s well worth reading Jeremy Harding\u2019s tribute to Langley\u2019s \u201cfiber-optic attention\u201d over at the LRB blog, and it\u2019s only a short trip from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[438],"tags":[1771,1773,1770,1766,1769,1768,1774,1681,354,278,1772],"class_list":["post-10651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-this-weeks-reading","tag-charles-baxter","tag-egypt","tag-faust","tag-mark-twain","tag-martin-greenberg","tag-michael-hofmann","tag-r-f-langley","tag-randall-jarrell","tag-recommendations","tag-robyn-creswell","tag-t-s-eliot"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nStaff Picks: R. F. 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