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Author: Eric Ormsby


SepOct 2001
Araby Signal Editions
by Eric Ormsby

VThicule Press
75 pages $12 paper
ISBN: 1550651455

All the Perfumes of Arabia
by W. J. Keith
In most dictionaries, Araby is defined as a "poetic" word for Arabia, but poetry-lovers old enough to remember James Elroy Flecker and the golden journey to Samarcand, who might expect camel-caravans moving languorously into a romantic sunset, will be in for a surprise. The title is, in fact, one of Eric Ormsby's subtle jokes. Read more...
Nov 2002
Facsimiles of Time: Essays on Poetry and Translation
by Eric Ormsby

The Porcupine's Quill
255 pages $22.95 paper
ISBN: 0889842264

Polished Erudition Without Airs
by Christopher Wiseman
Eric Ormsby is best known for his carefully crafted and sophisticated poetry, the most recent collection of which, Araby, appeared in 2001. However, he has long had a high reputation, especially in the United States, for his graceful, shrewd and wide-ranging reviews, most of which have distinguished the pages of the consistently top-quality journal The New Criterion. Read more...
May 2005
Daybreak at the Straits and Other Poems
by Eric Ormsby

Zoo Press $18.81 Paperback
ISBN: 1932023143

A Review of: Daybreak at the Straits and Other Poems
by Brian Bartlett
When Emerson writes-in one of his greatest essays, "Experience", from 1844-"I know better than to claim any completeness for my picture. I am a fragment, and this is a fragment of me," he's talking in part about his own essay, his own art. "Like a bird which alights anywhere," he continues, trying out another metaphor, "but hops perpetually from bough to bough, is the Power which abides in no man and in no woman, but for a moment speaks from this one, and for another moment from that one." What Emerson says above might apply to the vast array of poets we can ... Read more...
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