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Fred Sasaki

The Price is Right

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How much would you pay for a first-edition, one-of-500, Prufrock and Other Observations by T.S. Eliot of your very own?

Fred Sasaki

The White Issue

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Every time I pick up a copy of Chicago Review I learn something. They have a knack for special sections: Kenneth Rexroth, Lisa Robertson, Christopher Middleton, Louis Zukofsky, and Stan Brackhage(!) and Ronald Johnson… This time they map out British poetry, literally. But I really just like the pictures. (Click through for a preview.)

Fred Sasaki

“You’ll probably hate some of these poems.”

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An intern suggests to David Eggers that he publish poetry. Eggers says OK how? Enter The Poetry Chains of Dominic Luxford, section one in McSweeney’s three-volume Issue 22. Here’s how it works:

Fred Sasaki

The fair New Yorker is, sometimes, very amusing…

Play with Wave Book’s erasures. Context be damned.

Fred Sasaki

“Irony does not mean simply, ‘things that suck.’”

SoYouWanna interpret a poem?

Fred Sasaki

Nothing says poetry like Louis Vuitton

Eros and Thanatos are in the house for this Def Poetry performance by Kanye West.

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IN THIS ISSUE: March 2010

Poetry Magazine

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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Poetry Off the Shelf: David Baker

Poetry Off the Shelf: David Baker Fri, March 26th, 6:00 PM
Open Books
213 West Institute Place
Free admission

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