Saturday, May 2, 2015
Helen Vendler's "The Ocean, the Bird and the Scholar"
This is just a quick note to say that Helen Vendler’s new
essay collection The Ocean, the Bird and
the Scholar is out. Its publication is, for me, a major literary event. I
treasure Vendler’s criticism. Her previous collections – Part of Nature, Part of Us (1980), The Music of What Happens (1988), and Soul Says (1995) – are among my favorite books. Each contains a
number of her great New Yorker
reviews. The Ocean, the Bird and the
Scholar includes two New Yorker
pieces, “American X-Rays” (November 4, 1996) and “Ardor and Artifice” (March
12, 2001). But there’s much in this book that’s new to me. I look forward to
exploring it and blogging about it here.
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