NIDITCH, B.Z.

Niditch is one of those frequent contributors to American literary magazines whose work is invariably more advanced and distinctive than the common run; and rather than confining himself to coterie publications (as would writers with little confidence in their work's presence in any larger world), Niditch publishes widely, working out of classic avant-garde traditions. Given that his favorite subject is the recurring disasters of European history, typical titles of his very best poems, some of them...