Reviews for Pre-occupations

The average rating for Pre-occupations based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2010-09-27 00:00:00 Caroline Fitzgerald I find it difficult to enjoy poetry. I did like parts of Lawson's poetry, but after a while I just found myself getting bored. Eh.

Review # 2 was written on 2019-07-12 00:00:00 Elliott Hobbs Though this is a collection of essays, and most of them leaning very heavily into a personal narrative where Hass describes his relationship with a poet's work, I felt there was a larger argument at work in the book. It seems to me form is an organic structure for Hass, and it grows out of a poet's experiences and his identity. This doesn't mean that he surrenders himself to some touch-feely version of how a poem ought to be, Hass is as strict in his analysis of sonics, and rhythms, and meter. It does mean that these elements take on a character unique to a really good poet.