Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Featured Poet

Sarah Lindsay


Sarah Lindsay is the author of Primate Behavior (Grove Press), a finalist for the National Book Award in 1997, and Mount Clutter (Grove Press). Copper Canyon Press will publish her next book, Twigs and Knucklebones, this fall. She earns her keep as a copyeditor for a custom publisher in Greensboro, North Carolina.


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About Parnassus: Poetry in Review


Parnassus: Poetry in Review was founded in 1973 by Herbert Leibowitz (editor) and Stanley
Lewis (publisher) to provide a forum where poets, novelists, and critics of all persuasions could gather to review new books of poetry, including translations — international poetries have occupied center stage from our very first issue — with an amplitude and reflectiveness that Sunday book supplements and even the literary quarterlies could not afford. Reviews and essays, to be effective, would have to shun academic thinking and prose, and above all, embrace the diverse voices of democratic pluralism. Our literary profile has been defined by a passion for disinterested, wide-ranging, incisive commentary — and lilting prose; a poet’s reputation has never guaranteed a favorable or negative review. We never impose a point of view on any of our writers.

"For poetry reviewing, the best magazine, of course, is Parnassus: Poetry in Review."
—James Laughlin

"Parnassus: Poetry in Review, like the mountain whose name it bears, rises up unchallenged."
—Helen Vendler

"Parnassus: Poetry in Review plays a central role in contemporary letters."
—Octavio Paz

"Without Parnassus: Poetry in Review, American poetry would be dangling from a blurb."
—Rodney Jones


Parnassus: Poetry in Review
Volume 30, Number 1 & Number 2

Publisher & Editor: Herbert Leibowitz
Co-Editor: Ben Downing
Assistant Editor: Adam L. Dressler
Poetry Daily / Amazon.com Bookstore
Selected books available by Sarah Lindsay:
Primate Behavior
Mount Clutter

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