Comments on: Fanny Howe & Ange Mlinko Win 2009 Pegasus Awards http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/04/fanny-howe-ange-mlinko-win-2009-pegasus-awards/ Thu, 12 Jan 2012 08:40:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Alicia (AE) http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/04/fanny-howe-ange-mlinko-win-2009-pegasus-awards/#comment-9262 Alicia (AE) Thu, 16 Apr 2009 07:26:56 +0000 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/?p=2132#comment-9262 Kudos Ange! Kudos Ange!
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]]> By: Laura Carter http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/04/fanny-howe-ange-mlinko-win-2009-pegasus-awards/#comment-9245 Laura Carter Wed, 15 Apr 2009 21:09:09 +0000 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/?p=2132#comment-9245 Congrats, especially to Ange! Well-deserved. Congrats, especially to Ange! Well-deserved.
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]]> By: Jason Guriel http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/04/fanny-howe-ange-mlinko-win-2009-pegasus-awards/#comment-9180 Jason Guriel Wed, 15 Apr 2009 00:58:10 +0000 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/?p=2132#comment-9180 Yes, congrats to both and especially Ange Mlinko! Yes, congrats to both and especially Ange Mlinko!
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]]> By: mearl http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/04/fanny-howe-ange-mlinko-win-2009-pegasus-awards/#comment-9170 mearl Tue, 14 Apr 2009 22:28:52 +0000 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/?p=2132#comment-9170 Congratulations to Ange Mlinko for the Jarrell award…she’s at this moment in time the perfect choice. It’s a rare thing that a poet’s prose is at least as good as her poetry (<i>pace</i> Ezra). Jarrell, this prize’s namesake, didn’t quite get there. Delmore Schwartz, his more talented as well as more dissolute contemporary, outdid himself in his early poetry and then let his journalism, nearly of the same caliber, overwhelm the joy that informed his genius. Today’s two prominent poet critics (no need to name names) are fierce and interesting, but their poetry doesn’t live up to their prose. It’s a risky path for any poet to follow. Ange Mlinko understands the continuum between poetry and literary criticism, the double discourse, like Eliot did. It’s a question of knowing the difference in theory, but ignoring that knowledge in practice, of being absolutely true to two callings. Martin Congratulations to Ange Mlinko for the Jarrell award…she’s at this moment in time the perfect choice. It’s a rare thing that a poet’s prose is at least as good as her poetry (pace Ezra). Jarrell, this prize’s namesake, didn’t quite get there. Delmore Schwartz, his more talented as well as more dissolute contemporary, outdid himself in his early poetry and then let his journalism, nearly of the same caliber, overwhelm the joy that informed his genius. Today’s two prominent poet critics (no need to name names) are fierce and interesting, but their poetry doesn’t live up to their prose. It’s a risky path for any poet to follow. Ange Mlinko understands the continuum between poetry and literary criticism, the double discourse, like Eliot did. It’s a question of knowing the difference in theory, but ignoring that knowledge in practice, of being absolutely true to two callings.

Martin
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