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Author: Eric Ormsby
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SepOct 2001
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
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
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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