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"Apollinaire seemed an unlikely candidate for following orders, not to mention the hardship and violence of war. His battles were aesthetic; his weapons were his tongue and pen.... But for Apollinaire, a soldier's life was a revelation. He loved his training in arms and horseback riding, learning to use and care for the famous French 75 cannon. He delighted in the discovery of his physical prowess, his ability to keep up with men fifteen years younger than he, the manly camaraderie of barracks life, the welter of new sights and sounds and information. 'Soldiering is my true profession,' he wrote his Parisian friends. To another he wrote, from training camp, 'I love art so much, I have joined the artillery.' And because waiting and idleness turned out to be a part of life in uniform, he wrote a great deal..." —Tony Hoagland, I Seem to Be at a Great Feast:
The War Poems of Guillaume Apollinaire
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"... cerebral pleasures and a complicated awareness of... 'the public gravitas of things.'"
Dwight Garner on Mark Ford's Selected Poems. (The New York Times)
"Hedd Wyn: poetry that echoes from the first world war:"
Laura Barton on the Welsh poet, who died at at Passchendaele. (The Guardian)
"Top 10 war poems:"
Jon Stallworthy's selections. (The Guardian)
The Guardian poem of the week:
Carol Rumens introduces Patricia McCarthy's "Virginia Woolf's Angels 1919." (The Guardian)
2014 Dylan Thomas Prize:
Longlist announced. (BBC)
"I don’t sleep. And I can really only write in bars."
Win Bassett talks with poet and IT professional TJ Jarrett. (The Atlantic)
"How Much Does 'Does Poetry Matter' Matter?"
Jonathan Farmer weighs in.
(Los Angeles Review of Books)
TLS poem of the week:
Andrew McCulloch introduces John Gohorry's "Hokusai: A dream of a hundred bridges." (The Times Literary Supplement)
Irish Times Poetry Now prize:
The shortlist. (The Irish Times)
"Everything he said, he said directly... Everything he did, he did as a poet."
The Selected Poetry of Pier Paolo Pasolini: A Bilingual Edition, translated by Stephen Sartarelli, reviewed by Adam Thirlwell. (Bookforum)
"Geologic Time from Now On!"
Heather Houser on Lorine Niedecker’s Lake Superior.
(Los Angeles Review of Books)
"One thing you can count on is that people will keep writing..."
David Lehman on poetry, technology, the humanities and sciences, and more. (The New York Times)
American Life in Poetry:
Ted Kooser presents Mark Kraushaar's "The Ring Toss Lady Breaks a Five." (American Life in Poetry)
"Can poetry ever regain its relevancy?"
"Room for Debate" answers. (The New York Times)
"... grabby, over the top, titillating and outré ..."
Stephen Burt reviews Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals by Patricia Lockwood. (The New York Times)
• From Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals and the PD archive: "List of Cross-Dressing Soldiers."
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- The Mountain Poems of Stonehouse, Red Pine, tr. & comm. (Copper Canyon Press)
- Sooner or Later Frank, Jeremy Reed (Enitharmon Press)
- The Orchid Boat, Lee Harwood (Enitharmon Press)
- Nude Descending an Empire, Sam Taylor (University of Pittsburgh Press)
- Prelude to Bruise, Saeed Jones (Coffee House Press)
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