Reviews for New Playwrights: The Best Plays of 2001

The average rating for New Playwrights: The Best Plays of 2001 based on 2 reviews is 5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2008-08-10 00:00:00 Darren Mohan These plays were all awesome! Except for the last one about how grad school sucks the life out of you. I just played tag.

Review # 2 was written on 2009-01-10 00:00:00 Renate Schenkeli The used copy I'd ordered arrived in the morning mail -- wanted it in connection with a musing/essay I'm writing on "the work of hands the work of writing the work of making books." Hadn't a clue about the contents, now find I haven't been able to tear myself away from it. Terrific number of terrific poets, many whose work I hadn't read before, and will now track down to read more; many others whose work I had read some of but will now return to having seen this insight into their work; and others whose work I admire but had not come across in the context or writing about "work." One read so far I was moved by all over again -- and in homage to her, because it's not long but it stays a long time after reading it: Tess Gallagher's "I Stop Writing the Poem" -- I Stop Writing the Poem to fold the clothes. No matter who lives or who dies, I'm still a woman I'll always have plenty to do. I bring the arms of his shirt together. Nothing can stop our tenderness. I'll get back to the poem. I'll get back to being a woman. But for now there's a shirt, a giant shirt in my hands, and somewhere a small girl standing next to her mother watching to see how it's done. I highly recommend the collection -- it will be a companion as I write the essay, and beyond. Odd to return to this site today, when I'd decided this morning to begin writing every day about one of the books I have: a book a day. Might not finish reading it, but it would be taken from the shelf, given time and attention and my comments, a kind of conversation with it. I had thought 365 days of books, but now may emulate Scheherazade, my favorite storyteller, and aim for 1,001. Will enter brief comments here, longer think-pieces in my private notebooks.