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"Logan doesn't go so far as to suggest, as Eliot did (and then later repented), that 'the poetic critic is criticizing poetry in order to create poetry.' It's more that Logan the poet has taken Logan the critic along for the ride: 'I began to write criticism,' he told one interviewer, 'because I needed the money, but I kept writing because I needed the discipline,' admitting elsewhere to 'the terrible knowledge that I was a better reader when I read for hire, that I read more intently when driven by necessity.' Despite such downplaying, the two projects are clearly related. How could they not be? The poet doesn't black out, only to come to hours later, a review steaming on his desk."—David Yezzi, The Perfect Moods of William Logan
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American Life in Poetry:
Ted Kooser presents Amy Fleury's "Ablution." (American Life in Poetry)
"I don’t want to live in a country of corruption and injustice."
Sally McGrane on "The Abuse of Ukraine’s Best-Known Poet." (Page-Turner)
"Is the LRB the best magazine in the world?"
Elizabeth Day profiles the London Review of Books and talks with editor Mary-Kay Wilmers. (The Observer)
True Dantective
Alexander Aciman continues his series, "Recapping Dante," with Canto 20 of the Inferno. (Paris Review)
The Guardian poem of the week:
Carol Rumens introduces an excerpt from Andrew Marvell's "The Nymph Complaining for the Death of Her Fawn." (The Guardian)
The maverick poet:
E.E. Cummings: A Life, by Susan Cheever, reviewed by Steven G. Kellman. (San Francisco Chronicle).
"A new way of making poetry matter:"
Juan Felipe Herrera on Renato Rosaldo's The Day of Shelly's Death : The Poetry and Ethnography of Grief. (Los Angeles Review of Books)
"the bad boy of the national consciousness"
E.E. Cummings: A Life, by Susan Cheever, reviewed by Priscilla Gilman. (The Boston Globe)
Ned O'Gorman, 84
An obituary for the poet who founded an innovative school in Harlem. (The New York Times)
"Grieving, coping, and beginning anew:"
The Widows’ Handbook: Poetic Reflections on Grief and Survival, edited by Jacqueline Lapidus and Lise Menn, reviewed by Bella English. (The Boston Globe)
Seamus Heaney: The Music of What Happens:
An exhibition at Emory University "captures beautifully... the sheer liveliness of Heaney's long career. (The Irish Times)
"The Expression of Not-Knowing"
Robyn Creswell interviews Kevin Prufer. (Paris Review Daily)
"A fan’s biography:"
Wilfred Owen, by Guy Cuthbertson, reviewed by Jason Cowley. (Financial Times)
"Once he started experimenting, Cummings never stopped."
E.E. Cummings: A Life, by Susan Cheever, reviewed by Philip Marchand. (Afterword)
"A creative force we... had to acknowledge as central:"
John Ridland remembers Barry Spacks. (Santa Barbara Independent)
"Mother tongue:"
New collections by Scottish poets Jen Hadfield and John Burnside reviewed by Matthew Sperling. (New Statesman)
"'The Poetry of Sex' Isn't Actually About Sex"
Germaine Greer on The Poetry of Sex, edited by Sophie Hannah. (The New Republic)
"first catch, then canon, fugal; all one breath."
John Burnside's All One Breath reviewed by Sarah Crown. (The Guardian)
TLS poem of the week:
Andrew McCulloch introduces Clive James's "The Great Wrasse." (The Times Literary Supplement)
"Tumbling at the Edge of Disaster"
Michael Klein on Noelle Kocot's Soul in Space. (Los Angeles Review of Books)
Recently Arrived Titles
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list of all books and journals recently received at Poetry Daily is also available.
- Rhyme's Challenge: Hip Hop, Poetry, and Contemporary Rhyming Culture, David Caplan (Oxford University Press)
- The Sleeve Waves, Angela Sorby (University of Wisconsin Press)
- Otherwise Unseeable, Betsy Sholl (University of Wisconsin Press)
- Second Line Home: New Orleans Poems, Mona Lisa Saloy (Truman State University Press)
- Relics of Lust: New and Selected Poems, Lynne Savitt (NYQ Books)
- How a Mirage Works, Beverly Burch (Sixteen Rivers Press)
- Master of Leaves, Murray Silverstein (Sixteen Rivers Press)
- What Glorious Possibilities, Jim Zola (Aldrich Press)
- To the Bramble and the Briar, Steve Scafidi (University of Arkansas Press)
- Ghost Gear, Andrew McFadyen-Ketchum (University of Arkansas Press)
- Day of the Border Guards, Katherine E. Young (University of Arkansas Press)
- David Jones in the Great War, Thomas Dilworth (Enitharmon Press)
- Balefire, Shann Ray (Lost Horse Press)
- Afternoon Masala, Vandana Khanna (University of Arkansas Press)
- Another Reason, Carl Dennis (Penguin Books)
- The Essential Hits of Shorty Bon Bon, Willie Perdomo (Penguin Books)
- Complicity, Adam Sol (McClelland & Stewart)
- Elise Cowen: Poems and Fragments, Elise Cowen, ed. Tony Triglio (Ahsahta Press)
- Mexican Jenny, Barbara Brinson Curiel (Anhinga Press)
- Somewhere Near Defiance, Jeff Gundy (Anhinga Press)
- Seam, Tarfia Faizullah (Southern Illinois University Press)
- One Hundred White Pelicans, Robin Chapman (Tebot Bach)
- The Unleashable Dog, Charles Rafferty (Steel Toe Books)
- Phrasebook for the Pleiades, Lorraine Doran (Cider Press Review)
- Rough Beast, Tim Peeler (FutureCycle Press)
- Bed of Coals, Joseph Hutchison (FutureCycle Press)
- Redemption, Lee Passarella (FutureCycle Press)
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