June-tree: New and Selected Poems 1974-2000. (Comment: music and lyrics).

From: Poetry | Date: February 1, 2002| Author: Murphy, Bruce F. | Copyright information

June-tree: New and Selected Poems 1974-2000, by Peter Balakian. HarperCollins. $25.00.

Samuel Johnson said that we would worry less about what people think of us if we knew how little time they spent doing it. I was reminded of this humbling quip by a recent essay by Billy Collins (POETRY, August 2001), in which he explored the problems of "memory-driven" poetry--that is, all poetry written since the great Romantics that deals with, to put it crudely, stuff that happened...

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