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Tag Archives: Poetry and Poetics
…poems are flesh (Donald Hall)
“Poetry fails, in each poem, to be as good as poetry ought to be—or as I somehow think it somewhere is, somewhere I’m not looking. Every flesh is flawed and poems are flesh.” –Donald Hall
“To a Young Poet” (Mahmoud Darwish)
[I started noting great lines and stanzas to share from this poem by Mahmoud Darwish, but before long had in some way marked up the whole thing. I’m ashamed to admit I’d never heard of Darwish—much less read any of … Continue reading
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Tagged cpb, mahmoud darwish, poetry, Poetry and Poetics, writers on writing
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The (New?) Sentence
Ron Silliman pays very close attention to the sentence. A recent review in Pleiades of Silliman’s book The Alphabet makes a persuasive case that Silliman is a poet who is deeply involved in creating poetry in which the sentence—rather than … Continue reading
po-X-cetera
I recommend Bob Grumman’s site/blog:http://comprepoetica.com/newblog/Index.html Good stuff that’s making me think. And I appreciate Bob’s responses because they don’t assume I am arguing just for the sake of argument or out of bad faith, which has happened (the assumption, I … Continue reading
Tagged Links and Sites, Poetry and Poetics
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Primordial Sea
On the beach in Kodiak I kept thinking of these lines by e.e. cummings in one of my favorite childhood poems (still a favorite despite that horrific inversion in the third stanza): “For whatever we lose (like a you or … Continue reading
A Few New Blogs I’m Reading
JforJames from the NewPoetry list has a blog: ursprache As does the prolific and under-recognized Bill Knott (though he never did answer my question about whether he’s the same person James Wright wrote about so long ago… [cosmopoetica billknott ursprache … Continue reading
Epigramititis
There are quite a few things funnier than Kent Johnson’s latest rabble-rousing Epigramititis, but numbering well up there are the stuffy intonations of the poetry blogerati complaining that they don’t see the humor in such juvenile activities. As long as … Continue reading
Poets Who Blog
I’ve often pondered why new media–particularly blogs, but also podcasting and audio-blogging–has really taken off within only a relatively narrow group of practicing poets. In the “post-avant” school, people blog like crazy and in all kinds of ways. More traditional … Continue reading
Tagged Poetry and Poetics, Psyche
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Sustaining Culture in a Dark Time
We work in the company of others (philosophers and farmers, artists and scientists, as we variously require), and we work in the dark. The historian Daniel Boorstin has remarked that ignoring the past in making decisions is like trying to … Continue reading
Tagged Art, Philosophy, Poetry and Poetics, Writing
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David Graham on Writer’s Almanac
My friend David Graham has a good poem on Writer’s Alamanac this week (scroll down to February 19). It’s a particularly good fit for Keillor’s voice… which I generally like anyway, being a member of the great-unwashed poetry-non-elite. You can … Continue reading
Spork
New to me: Spork. Some interesting work (poems, stories, drawings) by mostly other than the usual suspects. Rather annoying layout. [cosmopoetica, spork, reading]
Tagged Art, Fiction and Lit, Poetry and Poetics
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New Poetry MP3s
A lot of good stuff (in the form of mp3 files) has been added to the PennSound site since I last mentioned it here. Take a look; have a listen. [cosmopoetica, poetry, mp3, audio]
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Slate on the Death of Literary Theory
In Slate yesterday: By never firmly establishing what it itself was for, the English department cultivated habits of withering self-reflection and so became one mechanism by which the university could stay in touch with its nonutilitarian self and subject its … Continue reading
Galway Kinnell Interview and Reading
An interview with, and some readings by, Galway Kinnell. The Book of Nightmares is one of my favorite booklength (a very short book!) poems.
Tagged Links and Sites, Poetry and Poetics
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Returning?
I’ve been away from poetry blogland for quite some time: partly due to a really heavy travel schedule but also because I had grown weary of the whole scene. If I read, I write. It’s not in my nature– nor … Continue reading
Tagged Poetry and Poetics, Psyche, Site News
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Tony Tost’s Egomania
Regarding Tony’s latest rumination on the role of the editor, someone posted a comment (apparently seconded by Jordan) questioning whether Tony was becoming a new/another Ron Silliman. If he is, then good! We need another 100 Ron Sillimans coming at … Continue reading
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Strange Reviews
I love Texfiles and if I kept a Jim Behrle style crush-list, Chris Murray would be right there near the top… but I have to confess that I don’t understand the imbroglio on her blog surrounding the review of Kent … Continue reading
Tagged Poetry and Poetics
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Marvin Bell the Flasher
An interesting project using Flash to score and animate the Marvin Bell poem “Why Do You Stay Up So Late?”
Tagged Poetry and Poetics
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Lon Silliman and Joe Green
So the semi-notorious Lon Silliman who inhabits Ron Silliman’s comment boxes, agitating from within, is actually the bit-more-notorious Joe Green, who I remember fondly from back in the pre-blog days of USENET and rec.arts.books and rec.arts.poems Ron should be thankful … Continue reading
Tagged Poetry and Poetics
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