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----------------- “The Bride Stripped Bare, the buck stops here, The Carpenters, the coast is clear, The Cockateer, the cold shoulder, the comfy chair, the crack of beers, the crack of rears,...

UbuWeb Featured Resources: October 2007 Selected by Joshua Clover 1. Guy Debord "In Girum Imus Nocte Et Consumimur Igni" 2. Guy Debord "Howlings Against Sade" 3. Yoko Ono "Snow Is Falling...

I think I am in love with A.E. Housman, Which puts me in a worse-than-usual-fix. No woman ever stood a chance with Housman, And he’s been dead since 1936. (Serious Concerns) ... His stock is definitely...

This is my favorite Leroy V. Quintana book. Published in 1996 by Bilingual Press, it includes a flattering introduction by the late Robert Creeley, who says of Quintana: “This deeply...

Having just posted at length about long critical histories, ways to think about dead people, and completed oeuvres, almost as if poetry were not a living art form, I compensate...

----------------- "andor gather all the equestrian statues from the parks and squares of the world and then place these statues together in a desert in order to depict a calvary charge...

James Merrill once complained, in a very funny poem: "Lives of the Great Composers make it sound/ Too much like cooking..." If that's so, then Alex Ross is the equivalent...

A few weeks ago I remarked that if I were to write a book on poetic craft, it would mainly consist of notes on craft from other disciplines like dance...

Recently I judged North Carolina Poetry Society’s Brockman-Campbell Book Award and after reading and re-reading the finalist entries, I chose the one that demonstrated a maturity of craft and an...

All summer long I’ve had a deadline hanging ovet head—I was supposed to write an essay on a single word for an anthology. (Actually, the deadline has passed, and...