Bink Noll: Selected Poems, edited by David R Slavitt Clive James the faraway friends

the faraway friends

troubling proportion and upsetting propriety in the name of unfathomable propagation

to Athens during the height of the Greek debt crisis and Kiev in the wake of the Maidan Revolution

poems that make an imaginative connection with contemporary victims of political injustice and discrimination

Bink Noll: Selected Poems, edited by David R Slavitt Clive James the faraway friendsSelected & edited by David R. Slavitt Full of astonishingly good poems which tease or surprise us into meditations" Robert Towers For those few who remember Bink Noll, he remains the Vermeer of American poetry, with a delicacy of hand and eye that again and again presents us with domestic perceptions that have what Melville called the shock of recognition. In a voice that is rich and accomplished, Noll offers us lessons in alertness that are, unlike