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Barry Schwabsky

Barry Schwabsky is art critic for The Nation and an editor at Artforum. His most recent book of poetry is Water from Another Source (Spuyten Duyvil, 2022). Forthcoming in 2026 are a new collection of poetry, Reply All (Black Square Editions) and an essay, Midcareer (Ten O’Clock Project).

The Risk is Part of the Rhythm

This artifice of the colloquial, the collision of tradition-drenched formality with streetwise argot, plays as large a part in Denby’s poetry as it did in his conversation, providing what Cal Revely-Calder calls the “fussiness native to Denby’s style.”

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