William Logan

Biography

William Logan’s books of poetry include Rift of Light (Penguin, 2017) and Madame X (Penguin, 2012). His numerous books of criticism include Our Savage Art: Poetry and the Civil Tongue (Columbia, 2009). He is a regular critic for the New York Times Book Review and the New Criterion. He is Alumni/ae Professor of English at the University of Florida.

See Work

POETRY / Summer 2016

Bad Uncle

By William Logan

He was the last cowboy in Massachusetts,
stabling the palomino in his mother’s garage,

POETRY / Spring 2013

The Hurricane Lamp

By William Logan

The ghost of the nineteenth century
still stalks the eaves 
of the hurricane house, its clapboard sheaves

POETRY / Spring 2013

To a Former Beauty

By William Logan

You flared across Boston
like a meteor, blond mane and lowered brow
in every coffeehouse off the Charles.

POETRY

Poetry Poster #8: William Logan

By William Logan
POETRY / Summer 2012

A Garret in Paris

By William Logan

If you leaned over
the peeling window ledge,
one tower of Notre Dame

POETRY / Summer 2012

For the Missing

By William Logan

That hazy, faintly discernible glow,
already half erased,
lodged in the corners of the night 

ESSAYS / Spring 2012

Elizabeth Bishop at Summer Camp

By William Logan
ESSAYS / Spring 2008

Forward into the Past: Reading the New Critics

By William Logan

Criticism never starts over; yet sometimes it suffers a forgetfulness, an ill nature, an ignorance of its soundings. There’s no going back, but there is a going forward that does not fear looking back. The complaint about “theory” is that...

POETRY / Winter 2008

Dante’s Folly

By William Logan
Summer 2007

Back to the Future: On Thomas Pynchon’s Against the Day

By William Logan