A Poetry Daily Prose Feature:
"'The more criticism I write, the more I’m asked to write about criticism; and, the more I’m asked to write about criticism, the less I want to write about anything at all.' Thus begins Our Savage Art: Poetry and the Civil Tongue, William Logan’s fifth tome of critical prose in twelve years. He goes on: ‘then something gets under my skin’, and this, for the fifth time, is a book about literature getting under the skin of one of the wittiest and most astute poet-critics of our—or any—generation."—Rory Waterman, Raising the Bar and Then Electrifying It: The Savage Criticism of William Logan
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Where's Rochester?
The Earl of Rochester's lampoons and satires were so hot, both he and his unpublishable texts had to take it on the lam, causing headaches for future editors. (The Times Literary Supplement)
Irish poetry after Yeats:
An Anthology of Modern Irish Poetry, edited by Wes Davis, reviewed by Robert Gray. (The Australian)
2011 Griffin Poetry Prize jury named:
Both an international and a Canadian winner will be selected, with overall prize money now at $200,000. (Winnipeg Free Press)
"... we're trying to prove poetry can make things happen."
Emergency Verse, an e-anthology, protests Britain's public spending cuts. (The Guardian)
George Hitchcock, 96
An obituary for the legendary founder of kayak magazine. (The Oregonian)
• More (San Jose Mercury News)
"When writers have total control, George realized, they feel safe."
Lorin Stein on The Paris Review's "radical" approach to interviewing. (The Atlantic)
"... between condemnation and celebration, between terror and relief..."
Daniel Swift's Bomber County: The Poetry of a Lost Pilot’s War reviewed by Dwight Garner. (The New York Times)
Virginia Quarterly Review staff on leave, winter issue canceled:
Actions taken in the aftermath of managing editor Kevin Morrissey's suicide and allegations of workplace bullying, and while the University of Virginia conducts an internal review. (Arts Beat)
• More (The Washington Post)
"The ideal of the literary critic as the humanist par excellence:"
Adam Kirsch remembers Frank Kermode. (Slate)
"... a special kinship between poetry and bombing."
Daniel Swift's Bomber County reviewed by James Purdon. (The Observer)
American Life in Poetry:
Ted Kooser presents Carl Little's "The Clearing ." (American Life in Poetry)
"The letters allow us to see so intimately inside the mind and heart of a poet..."
Katrina Trepsa chats with Ron Padgett, co-edior of Dear Sandy, Hello: Letters from Ted to Sandy Berrigan. (Publishers Weekly)
The Guardian poem of the week:
Carol Rumens introduces Vona Groarke's "Pier". (The Guardian)
"It came and went so unexpectedly..."
Seamus Heaney's Human Chain reviewed. (The Herald)
"heart and intellect are allied"
Adam O'Riordan reviews Seamus Heaney's Human Chain. (The Telegraph)
"like the bomblasts ..."
Brian Turner's Phantom Noise is reviewed by Courtney Cook. (The Washington Post)
"the art of hint..."
Ruth Padel reviews Rough Music, by Fiona Sampson. (The Guardian)
"how poetry can keep pace with the examined life..."
Eamon Grennan reviews Seamus Heaney's The Human Chain. (The Irish Times)
Recently Arrived Titles
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list of all books and journals recently received at Poetry Daily is also available.
- It's a Book, Lane Smith (Roaring Brook Press)
- No Surrender, Ai (W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.)
- Walt Whitman of Cosmic Folklore: Dialogues, Essays, Poems, Alan Botsford (Sage Hill Press)
- Maggot, Paul Muldoon (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
- Field of Light and Shadow, David Young (Alfred A. Knopf)
- Blue Abundance, Noël Hanlon (Salmon Poetry)
- Sasha Sings the Laundry on the Line, Sean Thomas Dougherty (BOA Editions, Ltd.)
- Burning of the Three Fires, Jeanne Marie Beaumont (BOA Editions, Ltd.)
- Diwata, Barbara Jane Reyes (BOA Editions, Ltd.)
- The Book of Things, Aleš Šteger (BOA Editions, Ltd.)
Recent Anthologies, etc.
- The Ecco Anthology of International Poetry, Ilya Kaminsky, Susan Harris of Words Without Borders, ed.s (Ecco)
- Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry, Camille T. Dungy, ed. (University of Georgia Press)
- Thinking Poetics: Essays on George Oppen, Steve Shoemaker, ed. (University Alabama Press)
- The Best Canadian Poetry in English 2009, Molly Peacock, A.F. Moritz, ed.s (Tightrope Books)
- The Best American Poetry 2009, David Lehman, David Wagoner, ed.s (Scribner)
- The Greek Poets: Homer to the Present, Peter Constantine, Rachel Hadas, Edmund Keeley, Karen Van Dyck, ed.s; Robert Hass, intro. (W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.)
- Close Calls with Nonsense: Reading New Poetry, Stephen Burt (Graywolf Press)
- Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney, Dennis O'Driscoll (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
- Quote Poet Unquote: Contemporary Quotations on Poets and Poetry, ed. Dennis O'Driscoll (Copper Canyon Press)
Past Features:
Original
articles, interviews, selections from special collections and journal issues, and more are available in the Archives.
