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Rachel Hadas

Wesleyan, 1995

Rachel Hadas at Her Considerable Best
For me, this is the finest of Rachel Hadas' generally excellent poetry collections. It is moving because Hadas explores one of the most potent landscapes available to poetry, the landscape of loss. She is a knowing Virgil, leading us through the hell of loneliness and loss and the briefly glimpsed heaven of consolatory rememberance. I found the sustained gravitas of the finest poems here not at ...

A Son from Sleep (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
Rachel Hadas

Wesleyan, 1987

A fresh collection of poetry that explores dreaming and waking.

Halfway Down the Hall: New and Selected Poems (Wesleyan Poetry)

4 reviews
Rachel Hadas

Wesleyan, 1998

Evocative, Tender, Muscial
I found this to be a wonderful book of poetry, particularly those poems written most recently. Hadas excells at writing about the everyday, for she turns the everyday into an occasion for seeing and feeling more keenly. And I love the music and wit of her couplets. This is a book to read aloud, to teach, and to enjoy.

Euripides, 2 : Hippolytus, Suppliant Women, Helen, Electra, Cyclops (Penn Greek Drama Series)

2 reviews
Euripides, Richard Moore, ...

University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997

a return to classics
I went to Columbia, with the most prominent 'great books' curriculum still in existence. 25 years later, I'm finding myself re-reading and discussing many of the titles. The Penn Greek Drama series is a handsome library of new translations that give fresh takes on the classics. It's useful to have Euripides on the shelf when you return home from the recent bravura performance by Fiona Shaw as ...

Indelible (Wesleyan Poetry)

5 reviews
Rachel Hadas

Wesleyan, 2001

underneath the surface
Rachel Hadas's "Indelible" takes ordinary events in everyday life and transforms them in writing to the meaningful, treasured memories we carry around in our minds and hearts. At first glance, her poems may seem mundane, however, further probing reveals the intense emotions portrayed by way of her words. In "Fathers and Daughters, Mothers and Sons," she writes, "...And I: what father now was ...

In The Blood (Morse Poetry Prize)

1 review
Carl Phillips

Northeastern, 1992

A stunning debut
I have read and admired poems by Carl Phillips for years but had never read one of his collections. With his third book about to be released from Graywolf, I decided to go back and read his first and second. To understand my impulse, one must realize that I consider one of Phillips' poems, "As from a Quiver of Arrows," (which originally appeared in THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY and was lately reprinted ...

The Double Legacy: Reflections on a Pair of Deaths
Rachel Hadas

Faber & Faber, 1996

Laws
Rachel Hadas

Zoo Press, 2004

Classics
Rachel Hadas

WordTech Communications, 2007

Pass It on (Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets)
Rachel Hadas

Princeton University Press, 1989

The poems in Rachel Hadas's new book are united by a common preoccupation with passage--passage variously construed. In Section I, the four seasons are glimpsed in turn through the lenses of several types of personal associations, especially parenthood. As spring gives way to fall and winter, separation looms; diverse kinds of temporary and permanent renewal come with spring, and the fifth poem in this section steps outside this cycle. In ...

The River of Forgetfulness
Rachel Hadas

WordTech Communications, 2006

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