REVIEW OF GEOFFREY O'BRIEN'S NEW MARSH HAWK PRESS BOOK!

Norman Finkelstein reviews Geoffrey O'Brien's HOW WORDS CAST THEIR SPELL ON A POET -- the first book to come out of Marsh Hawk Press' "Chapter One" series!  You can see the review at Hyperallergic, but here's an excerpt:

A longtime writer for the New York Review of Books, O’Brien is the author of eight volumes of poetry as well as numerous books on film, popular music, and the art of reading. Here, he trains his sensitive, meticulous instruments of attention and his eloquent prose style upon his own poetic origins. This is, as he writes in the introductory poem, “not about wanting to be a poet / or trying to become a poet.” Rather, “The question here was only / where did poetry come from in a single random life / …haunted like a house by what is overheard / a transience perpetually surviving.”