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“Battlefield” unearthed…and more on Frank Stanford
I’d love to hear comments from our Harriet bloggers and readers on Ben Ehrenreich’s “The Long Goodbye,” his epic, beautifully written piece on the work and life of the late Frank Stanford, up now on the Foundation site.
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Chance occurrence
Pulp fiction fans—check it out!
Levi Stahl’s recent PF piece, “Baseball and verse,” dug up some new and old poems inspired by our national sport. He paid specific attention to this mournful lament for the 1910 New York Giants:
These are the saddest of possible words:
“Tinker to Evers to Chance.”
Trio of bear cubs, and fleeter than birds,
Tinker and Evers and Chance.
Ruthlessly pricking our gonfalon bubble,
Making a Giant hit into a double—
Words that are heavy with nothing but trouble:
“Tinker to Evers to Chance.”
How popular was that refrain?
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Breathless
At the PEN America blog, David Haglund digs up a curious George Plimpton anecdote involving John Steinbeck, Marianne Moore…and Jean Seberg.
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River to River
Brandon Stosuy sends along this quote from a new song by Okkervil River: “From a bridge on Washington Avenue, the year of 1972, broke my bones and skull and it was memorable.”
Q: Who is the speaker?
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E.P. on P.E.
On April 10, Patricia wrote: “Phebus Etienne is dead. That won’t mean anything to most of you…Phebus was a reverent Haitian lyric, a deft conjurer of language and light, a Cave Canem sister, an insistent glow…She was only 41.”
I e-mailed Patricia that, oddly enough, it did mean something to me…
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Why not the toes?
At Paper Thin Walls, Poetry Foundation writer Brandon Stosuy on Lexie Mountain Boys:
“The act skirts a line between spastic theater and avant-savant sound poetry slam (dancing)—sometimes it works, other times it’s just loud.”
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Shall I nail thee to a summer’s day?
Stephen Colbert challenges Sean Penn to a Meta-free-phor-all, with Robert Pinsky presiding.
(Via Betsy and Jimmy)
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Use Your Allusion
This is from the item about William McGonagall—by some lights, the world’s “worst” poet—in today’s PoFo News:
“I’m sure there will be a lot of interest in the paintings because they are presented almost in a comic book format with lots of buried jokes and illusions.”
Illusions!
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GP on Rimbaud
A famous author’s blog has a 5-day hurrah for an Oulipian without rival, a facial hair champion, a wordsman so grand no long intro shall dim my post. I will just show you his initials: GP. (My brain’s jumping with GP anyway, having taught my class all about Oulipo on Monday.)
This blog has lots of cool stuff to absorb, including GP’s lipogrammish “translation” of Rimbaud’s “Vocalisations” (as GP has it), four stanzas that avoid our fifth orthographic symbol and *also* any original Rimbaudian discussion of said symbol…just as I am trying to do right now…
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Peel Slowly and See
Let’s make a Venn Diagram. Circle one consists of Einstürzende Neubauten fans; circle two, Dante aficionados. If you’re in the overlapping region, it’s time to check out Radio Inferno (posted at WFMU’s Beware of the Blog), a 1993 collaboration between E.N., Andreas Ammer, and the late great new-music DJ John Peel. (Thanks to Kosiya Shalita for the link.)
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