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James Harms

James Harms

James Harms is the author of eight books of poetry, including What to Borrow, What to Steal (2011), and Comet Scar (2012). He is a Professor of English at West Virginia University, where he was the founding director of the MFA Program in Creative Writing.

James Harms reviews 'New and Selected Poems' by Gig Ryan

December 2011–January 2012, no. 337 24 November 2011
Gig Ryan is something of a postmodern classicist, deftly balancing John Ashbery’s slippery indeterminacy and Anne Carson’s lyric innovation. She is also a complete original. It is difficult to think of another poet who has more consistently and resolutely fashioned beauty from flat, broken English. Book after book, Ryan has given herself the demanding task of working without the net of convent ... (read more)