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To serve poets: The cookbooks of Ronald Johnson March 15, 2011: Samuel Amadon wants you to remember Ronald Johnson for more than just his great poetry. Writing for the Gulf Coast blog, Amadon is appreciative of what Johnson's Simple Fare (1989) taught him about scrambled eggs, but it's his commentary on each recipe and the way that they "feel gathered out of his experience" that sets his books apart. These [...]
Renowned Urdu poet publishes first English-language collection at 86 March 11, 2011: The Oxford Mail interviews Akbar Alikhan, better known as Akbar Hyderabadi to readers of Urdu poetry. Alikhan moved to Oxford from Hyderabad in 1955 to study architecture, but never stopped writing the poetry that connected him to India. He said: “I did not make a switch to poetry from architecture; poetry has always been a divining force in my [...]
The death of marginalia February 21, 2011: The New York Times is running an article today on the future, if there is one, of marginalia. The article suggests that writing in books might become a thing of the past as people do more of their reading electronically, which creates new dilemmas for archivists: “People will always find a way to annotate electronically,” said G. Thomas [...]
The Economy of Friendship February 18, 2011: Ellen Pearlman reviews the new book of letters between Kerouac and Ginsberg for the Brooklyn Rail. As one might expect, the review takes the form of a highlights reel, and though Pearlman doesn’t quote the texts at length, she gives us a nice summary of the trajectory of the friendship, in terms of emotional and economic life. For example, the [...]
John Ashbery reads from his translation of Rimbaud at the New School February 18, 2011: Via The Best American Poetry, John Ashbery reads his translation of Arthur Rimbaud's "Promontory" from Illuminations. Originally published in 1886, Norton will release Ashbery's translation in May, though not with his above comments about scholars' endless attempts to track Rimbaud through Scarborough just because he mentions it in the poem. [...]
Thoughts On Yes And No February 15, 2011: On Thursday, February 24, at 6pm, Poetry magazine, the Poetry Foundation, the Columbia College Poetry Program, and the Center for Book and Paper Arts present: Performance Poetry in the Age of Language + Reception, featuring Edwin Torres. After the reading, the Center for Book and Paper Arts will host a reception for guests, where a selection [...]
Markson’s Marks February 14, 2011: When the novelist and poet David Markson died, he donated his sizable book collection to The Strand, which was, apparently, his favorite bookstore. Because he routinely mark(son)ed-up his books, a small fanbase has taken to browsing the stacks and collecting his old collection. And now, there’s a blog collecting the collections of marginalia. [...]
Emory gets rare Keats February 11, 2011: In addition the famed Danowski collection, Emory university in Atlanta now has a new, million dollar set of rare books: The 22-title collection includes 1 of the first books ever printed in English, "Polychronicon," a 15th century volume of universal history. It also includes a first edition of "Poems," the first book ever published by poet [...]
Essays for Robert von Hallberg February 1, 2011: Poetry magazine recently received this welcome dispatch from Chicago Review, with links to PDFs of knockouts from their latest number. From CR editor, V. Joshua Adams: Readers of Harriet may be interested in two essays on contemporary poetry from the latest issue of Chicago Review (55:3—4). In "Apocalypticism: A Way Forward for Poetry," [...]
Simplicity and Scale January 31, 2011: Lemon Hound checks out the minimalist poems of Aram Saroyan, and thinks about their relationship to the contemporary. The focus is not simply on the smallness or conceptual nature of these poems, but on their seeming sincerity and subtle lyricism: These poems made me consider the relationship between sincere, naive and clarity. There is [...]