All Prose: Selected Essays and Reviews

A different set of subjects turns up in William Corbett's All Prose: Selected Essays and Reviews, which have all been previously published. The Boston critic (New York Literary Lights) and poet, currently a lecturer on writing and the humanities at MIT, here tracks artists Artaud and Bonnard, Joe Brainard and Richard Diebenkorn. Writers include Charles Olson (""To read Olson today is to feel again how stale the current moment is""), Michael Palmer, Allen Ginsberg, Fanny Howe, Ange Mlinko and Robert Creeley. Helen Vendler's critical ""Butcher Shop"" comes under fire, as do the films Das Boot, The English Patient and Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet. (Oct. 1)