Maggie Pouncey’s ‘Perfect Reader’ about a young woman and her father’s poems

PERFECT READER By Maggie Pouncey Pantheon 268 pp. $24.95 The eminent literary critic Harold Bloom famously described the anxiety of influence: the difficulty that poets have shaking free of the imprint of their predecessors. How much more difficult to be the daughter of an eminent literary critic…











Poetry – Arts – Literature – Holidays – Father’s Day

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