Stephen Burt has a recent review, “Poems about Poems,” from the Nov/Dec issue of the Boston Review that begins, If…
Mr Turner
I had a theory about Joseph Mallord William Turner. At an exhibition of his work at the Tate some years…
from Slavoj Žižek’s Absolute Recoil: Towards a New Foundation of Dialectical Materialism (Verso, 2014)
…the big Other is not some kind of substantial Master who secretly pulls the strings but a stumbling malfunctioning machinery.
Jim Goar’s The Dustbowl (Shearsman, 2014)
The Dustbowl Jim Goar Shearsman 2014, 86 pp., $16, ISBN: 978-1-84861-321-8 Jim Goar’s third full-length collection The Dustbowl is compelling…
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You know who sells a lot of soap? Procter & Gamble. Do you think P&G soap is “the best”? or…
“The reason why poetry once lost favor with the more judicious”
“Now, commendation and its opposite being analogous as regards effects, we cannot easily deny the fact that although the law…
Poetry, E-Books, and John Ashbery
There’s an article in today’s New York Times called “Line by Line, E-Books Turn Poet-Friendly.” In it, Alexandra Alter reports…
Ich bin ein Junge • Issue 2
The September 2014 edition of the very interesting Ich bin ein Junge is up. Click on the image above to…
Intro and Outro
There are writers who seem to fall through the net, who somehow miss out on the audience they deserve. They…
Tolerance and Accessibility II
Let’s try a slightly different tack this time. Here are the first two paragraphs of a review written by Clifton…