Archive for October, 2008
Daisy Fried
GO PHILLIES!!!!
The crowd at the ball game
is moved uniformly
by a spirit of uselessness
which delights them–
W.C. Williams, from “At the Ball Game”
Fanaticism? No. Writing is exciting
and baseball is like writing.
Marianne Moore, from “Baseball and Writing”
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Patricia Smith, Blood Dazzler
The 2008 National Book Award finalists were just announced by Scott Turow via live web video (watch), and Harriet emeritus Patricia Smith was on the list, for Blood Dazzler (Coffee House). A big congratulations from Harriet.
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Patricia’s poems
Patricia’s Harriet posts
Forrest Gander
Poets in New York, 6 of 6
Inseparable by Lewis Warsh, Granary Books, 2008
Despite that Lewis Warsh is most closely associated with the community of writers who met at St. Marks Church on the Bowery from the late 70’s through the 90’s, his influence has been felt nationally and internationally.
Forrest Gander
Poets in New York, 5 of 6
Because Sharon Olds has been publishing for forty years and because her work has drawn so much attention, both disparaging and laudatory, most people I know already have decided attitudes towards her work.
Lavinia Greenlaw
Silent disco
Have we entered a version of silent disco in which the primary experience of the poem is as received signals rather than noise?
For a poem to operate as a poem must it now be concentrated on the idea of itself, must it appear to be either the square root of poem or hardly a poem at all?
What’s a disco? asked my American penpal in 1974. She also sought clarification on ‘jumble sale’ and ‘youth club’.
Silent disco: I thought it was the most miserable thing I’d ever heard of (a room full of people with headphones on, dancing alone and in silence) until one night a year ago in Nova Scotia when there was well and truly nothing else to do. Someone described me as looking joyful. It’s not often I get called that.
Forrest Gander
Poets in New York, 4 of 6
No Eyes: Lester Young by David Meltzer, Black Sparrow Books
David Meltzer’s No Eyes: Lester Young
is one of the most masterful, joyous, life-affirming books of poems on music (and IN music) published in the United States.
Olena Kalytiak Davis
LEAN DOWN YOUR HEART TO HEAR or AL QUE QUIERE (upside down exclamation mark)
(i’m back and, momentarily, no longer mad nor sad at anyone. thanks, some of you, for the non-posted/able comments. as i already wrote one non-public-commenter, my posterior actually isn’t that great, but, my negative capability really IS stunning.)
so, having posted ass, i now reassess the correct/necessary use of this forum.
in some ways, especially as way of transition, my derriere really is a short lyric poem (let me compare/count the ways):
Forrest Gander
Poets in New York, 3 of 6
The Heaven-Sent Leaf by Katy Lederer, BOA Editions, 2008
Her new book, The Heaven-Sent Leaf
, shows Lederer in her most independent mode.
Forrest Gander
Poets in New York, 2 of 6
City of Corners, Wave Books, 2008
Working as a Registered Nurse in an infectious disease clinic in Brooklyn, John Godfrey has steadily published books of poems (and sometimes, as in the case of Push the Mule, prose) characterized by an exuberant attention to language and to the emotional surges & ebbs of urban relationships.
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IN THIS ISSUE: March 2010
A selection of new work from Dorothea Grossman; new poems by Lavinia Greenlaw, David Yezzi, A.E. Stallings, Gerald Stern, and Dan Gerber; translations of Carlo Betocchi, and Mahmoud Darwish; an Editorial on Ruth Lilly; an exchange between Ilya Kaminsky and Adam Kirsch; an essay by Chen Li; and a review by Daisy Fried.
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