This book undoes a lot of the anxiety I have as someone who has to read a lot of poetry…
Contemporary Verse Novels and Sentences and Fragments: Charles Simic’s DIME STORE ALCHEMY
I’m not really sure why I keep writing about “Contemporary Verse Novels,” because I’m not that interested in labeling things.…
Jamie Iredell’s “Literary Pillars”
First, it was really hard to narrow this down to fifty “literary pillars,” for myself as a writer. I had…
Contemporary Verse Novels: Jacques Roubaud’s SOME THING BLACK and Alix Cleo Roubaud’s ALIX’S JOURNAL
I first heard about these two books from M. Kitchell’s post at HTML Giant. I went to the Dalkey Archives…
Contemporary Verse Novels: Robert Walser’s SPEAKING TO THE ROSE and Harry Mathews’s 20 LINES A DAY
Contemporary Verse Novels continued . . . Okay, so, this is important (and many thanks to A. D. Jameson for…
Contemporary Verse Novels and Anne Carson’s AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF RED, Selah Saterstrom’s THE PINK INSTITUTION, and C. A. Conrad’s THE BOOK OF FRANK
I’ve been reading and comparing Anne Carson’s Autobiography of Red, Selah Saterstrom’s The Pink Institution, and C. A. Conrad’s The…
Sentences and Fragments: “Your Borders, Your Rivers, Your Tiny Villages” by Amy Bloom
Over the past few weeks, I’ve written a lot here about “Contemporary Verse Novels” and concluded with the idea that…
Tell it Slant: Vendler on Dickinson
I’ve said before in this space and I’ll say it again: the single most important element of literature to me…
Art as Inheritance, part 2: Making New Art Appear as Old Text Disappears (as if by Magic!)
A friend recently alerted me to a post at Geek System (“Found Poetry in Magic: The Gathering Cards”): a fellow…
boog city 5!
This is from David Kirschenbaum regarding the upcoming Boog City poetry and music festival… Hi, One month from now, from…