Reviews | July 13, 2011
Lives of the Poets: On Recent Novels About Poets
Andrew Mulvania
Reviews of:
- Jerome Charyn, The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson, W. W. Norton and Company, 2010
- Ron Hansen, Exiles, Picador, 2009
- Adam Foulds, The Quickening Maze, Penguin, 2010
- Brian Hall, Fall of Frost, Penguin, 2009
- Michael Sledge, The More I Owe You, Counterpoint, 2010
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