What to Read During National Poetry Month
Former Santa Barbara poet laureate and ‘Independent’ writer David Starkey reviews 30 books of poems.
Author: David Starkey
Maria Gainza’s ‘Optic Nerve’
Argentinian art critic pens a hybrid work of memoir, fiction, and art criticism.
‘The Art of Symeon Shimin’
New book brings illustrator to life.
Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations
Author shows us what it’s like to see the world through someone else’s eyes.
Psalms of Cinders and Silt Addresses Fire and Mudslide
Carpinteria-based poetry journal remembers the Montecito tragedy through poems.
Review | Peter Orner’s ‘Maggie Brown & Others’
The author offers up short and very short stories, each revolving around a theme or place.
Review | Chris Ware’s ‘Rusty Brown’
If I were recommending just one book published in 2019, it would be this big, audacious, unwieldy masterpiece.
Review | David Wallace-Wells’s ‘The Uninhabitable Earth’
Book on the calamities of climate change offers one body blow after another.
Review | Peter Schjeldahl’s ‘Hot, Cold, Heavy, Light’
Author feels like a best friend just happens to know almost everything there is to know about art.
Review | A. C. Grayling’s ‘The History of Philosophy’
Author makes pre-Socratic philosophers feel unexpectedly relevant.