Tom Raworth will be awarded the Anto­nio Delfini life­time achieve­ment award at the San Carlo Foun­da­tion in Modena on June 23. It’s as good an excuse as any to track down his Col­lected, pub­lished by Car­canet in the UK and reviewed by Mar­jorie Perloff [PDF] for the TLS. And/or check out Raworth’s page at Andrea Brady’s Archive of the Now, where you can hear him read from his work.

Robert D. Richardson’s William James: In the Mael­strom of Amer­i­can Mod­ernism won a 2007 Ban­croft Prize. Also well worth your time are Richardson’s Emer­son: The Mind on Fire and Henry Thoreau: A Life of the Mind.