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Archive for September, 2010
Logan on Heaney September 27, 2010: Yet another link in the chain of Heaney reviews appeared this Sunday. Writing in the New York Times Book Review, William Logan analyzed the older poet's Human Chain, comparing the Irishman to Frost: Heaney is the most popular literary poet since Frost, who managed to convince most of his readers that he wasn’t a literary poet at all, that he [...]
Poetry war over, if you were concerned September 27, 2010: A somewhat mysterious article in the Times of India informs us that the "poetry war" between two political leaders is finally over. RJD chief Lalu Prasad on Sunday declared unilateral "ceasefire" to the "poetry war" between him and chief minister Nitish Kumar. Lalu said, "Now there would be no poem recitation by any leader or worker from my [...]
Fiction for poets September 27, 2010: What's better than writing for a workshop? Writing about a workshop, of course. Lan Samantha Chang -- grad and director of the Iowa Writer's Workshop -- just published a novel called "All is Forgotten, Nothing is Lost," which tracks the trials of two poets passing through a university program. Bernard Sauvet and Roman Morris, budding poets, are [...]
The people’s voice has spoken September 27, 2010: Though the Iranian government no longer broadcasts his songs, Mohammed Reza Shajarian may still be his country's most famous - or infamous - protest singer. NPR reports on Shajarian's peaceful protest poetry, and why he often pulls his lyrics from old Persian poems that shed a historical light on present-day conflicts: As a recent example, [...]
Student of Exile September 27, 2010: Poet Marilyn Hacker talks about sonnets and ghazals, collaborating with Palestinian-American poet Deema Shehabi, and wandering through undefined territory while coming up with Names, her latest collection. Here she converses with Anis Shivani at the Huffington Post about all things lost and found. Shivani: There is a greater proportion of [...]
Last poems, final consolation September 24, 2010: Critic Harold Bloom opens up to Publishers Weekly about his upcoming anthology, Till I End My Song: A Gathering of Last Poems, a collection of poets' final works or works dealing with death's finality. Macabre as it may sound, Bloom insists the book is both a lament and a labor of love. From Publishers Weekly: Do you think of this as a sad [...]
Howl: a good movie, but is it good for the Jews? September 24, 2010: The Jewish Week, like every other newspaper, shouts out to Howl, but lends it a uniquely Semitic spin: About halfway into “Howl,” the edgy, thoughtful new docudrama by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, you begin to realize that, in his uncanny recreation of Allen Ginsberg’s speech and performance rhythms, James Franco is beginning to edge [...]
Gloucester goes gaga for Olson September 24, 2010: A nine-day centennial celebration honoring Charles Olson will begin next weekend in the poet's hometown of Gloucester. By all accounts, Olson stood out - and not just because of his 6-foot-8 stature or his first-rate cranium. Find out why Gloucester is gushing about Olson's centennial: From the Gloucester Times: "In his life he was a [...]
Mullins it over: on Ezra Pound September 24, 2010: In the Atlantic, Graeme Wood recalls meeting Pound biographer and anti-Semitic homophobe Eustace Mullins six years ago. Meeting Mullins was, for the journalist, a chance to explore Pound's mental condition -- and to understand how his state gave rise to poetry Wood admired. I had read almost everything Pound ever wrote, and much of Mullins's own [...]
Does poetry need paper? September 24, 2010: That's what inquiring minds - namely, Don Delillo's - want to know. Delillo was just announced as the recipient of PEN's prestigious Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction. Here's what Delillo told PEN about new media and writing via the Los Angeles Time's "Jacket Copy:" "Will language have the same depth and richness in [...]