McGrath, Campbell. Seven Notebooks: Poems.(Brief article)(Book review)

McGrath, Campbell. Seven Notebooks: Poems. Ecco: HarperCollins. Feb. 2008. c.240p. ISBN 978-0-06-125464-2. $23.95. POETRY

Basho's travel sketches or Issa's haibun, the Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon, the chronicles of Walt Whitman and Allen Ginsberg, the American realism of Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and the wit of Kenneth Koch--these are only some of the resonances evoked by this highly textured poetic journal. McGrath, author of six previous books of poetry and recipient of a MacArthur grant, explores how life generates art, documenting a year in seven notebooks: Blueberry, Civilization, Papyrus, Dawn, Hurricane, Luxury, and Astral. Running on nature or design--the best …