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"I am writing this essay to unravel what is for me a mystery: in a poem already stunning in its force, why do its final two lines seem to me not simply powerful but immeasurably deep? Why is it that when I try to say these lines aloud, either in German or in English, my voice cracks and my eyes fill with tears? What is haunting me?"
—Alicia Ostriker, Celan's Deathfugue and the Eternal Feminine    

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"The Renaissance Precursor of Rap Battles and Flow"
Ed Simon on the "frequently hungover, perennially in trouble, and womanizing priest named John Skelton." (Paris Review Daily)

"Charles Simic Reads Sharon Olds"
Charles Simic joins Paul Muldoon for a Poetry Podcast. (The New Yorker)

"... the poet we thought we knew."
The Letters of Sylvia Plath, Volume I: 1940-56, edited by Peter K. Steinberg and Karen V. Kukil, reviewed by Paul Alexander. (The Washington Post)

"The Scope and Precision of Richard Wilbur"
Paul Muldoon remembers Richard Wilbur. (The New Yorker)

"So that’s, I think, sort of the core of what poetry does for me. It manages to be both time and non-time."
Catherine Graham interviews Alice Oswald. (The Toronto Review of Books)

TLS poem of the week:
Andrew McCulloch introduces "The Chimeras," by W. H. Auden. (The Times Literary Supplement)

"This poem shows what sexual abuse looks like."
Elizabeth Flock talks with Yrsa Daley-Ward about her poem, "bone," and more. (PBS NewHour)

American Life in Poetry:
Ted Kooser presents Joseph Hutchison's "Lifting My Daughter." (American Life in Poetry)

State Lines:
David Roderick presents Brittany Perham's "DP.agp.11." (San Francisco Chronicle)

"Edward Lear: where art and nonsense collide:"
Peter Parker reviews Mr Lear: A Life in Art and Nonsense, by Jenny Uglow. (The Spectator)

The Guardian poem of the week:
Carol Rumens introduces "Ay, But Can Ye?" by Vladimir Mayakovsky, translated by Edwin Morgan. (The Guardian)

Richard Wilbur, 96
An obituary for the former Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Winner. (The New York Times)
 • More (Boston Globe)
 • Remembering Richard Wilbur. (NPR)

Sunday poem:
Rebecca Foust introduces Phillis Levin's "Kettle." (Women's Voices for Change)

"There's the death sentence working alongside the literary sentence."
Kaveh Akbar interviews Layli Long Soldier. (Divedapper)

"Thorn Vine on the Wall"
Anthony Madrid on his unplanned path to a translation of a poem from the Shijing, the oldest anthology of Chinese poetry. (Paris Review Daily)

"Every County in the State of California"
When Dana Gioia was appointed Poet Laureate of California he set out to visit and read in every single county in the state. (BBC Radio 3)

"I am not poor or superficial, no matter what I turn out."
Erica Wagner reviews The Letters of Sylvia Plath, Volume I: 1940-56, edited by Peter K. Steinberg and Karen V. Kukil. (New Statesman)

Recently Arrived Titles
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• Collected Poems, Dennis O'Driscoll (Carcanet Press)
• The World of Multicongruencies We Tend to Inhabit Increasingly, Albert Goldbarth (New Michigan Press)
• Stay, Andrew Jamison (Gallery Books)
• Some Say the Lark, Jennifer Chang (Alice James Books)
• A Scattering and Anniversary, Christopher Reid (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
• Little Climates, L. A. Johnson (Bull City Press)
• Noir, Tony Towle (Hanging Loose Press)
• Galaxies, Cathryn Hankla (Mercer University Press)
• Anthropocene Blues, John Lane (Mercer University Press)
• Sharps Cabaret, Katy Giebenhain (Mercer University Press)
• A Memory of Manaus, Catharine Savage Brosman (Mercer University Press)
• Contested Terrain, D. A. Gray (FutureCycle Press)
• Inheriting the War: Poetry and Prose by Descendants of Vietnam Veterans and Refugees, Laren McClung and Yusef Komunyakaa, ed.s (W. W. Norton & Company)
• The Tattooist's Chair, Karl Riordan (Smokestack Books)
• Poets and the Algerian War, Francis Combes, ed., Alan Dent, tr. (Smokestack Books)
• Dreampaths of a Runaway, Louise C. Callaghan (Salmon Poetry)
• Where the Lost Things Go, Anne Casey (Salmon Poetry)
• Two Halves of the World Apple: Poems by Yang Ke, Yang Ke, tr. Denis Mair; Chao; Simon Patton; Ouyang Yu; Ning Yang (University of Oklahoma Press)
• Between Dog and Wolf, David Hathwell (David Robert Books)
• Breath and Bone, Bettina T. Barrett (Cherry Grove Collections)
• Land of My Father's War, Phyllis Meshulam (Cherry Grove Collections)
• Loners and Mothers, Allen Lee Ireland (Cherry Grove Collections)
• Day's Late Blue, Jennifer Burd (Cherry Grove Collections)
• Drinking with the Second Shift, Robert Collins (Turning Point)
• Abundance, Mark McCaig (Turning Point)
• Voyeur, Jodi Hottel (WordTech Editions)
• A Language the Land Is Inventing, Ann A. Philips (WordTech Editions)
• After the Bomb, Michael Skau (WordTech Editions)
• This Is for the Mostless, Jason Magabo Perez (WordTech Editions)
• Caught Looking, Charles Sean Carroll (WordTech Editions)
• Erotica Atomica, John Bradley (WordTech Editions)
• Whit Grace, Anne Shivas (Word Poetry)
• Bowling in the Bumper Lane, Corey Ginsberg (Word Poetry)

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