A Poetry Daily Prose Feature:
"Why African-American innovative poetics? Mainstream African-American poets—for the purposes of this essay, let’s reductively say that “mainstream” contemporary poetry is that which adheres to a linear narrative and stable speaker, and that “innovative” poetry is that which pushes an anti-linear, anti-narrative, hybridized aesthetic—are also important. But for African-American poets, this issue of how to write about something—that sticky notion of subject matter—seems particularly fraught, because of course the subject of race itself is particularly fraught."
—Arielle Greenberg, Revelatory and Complex: Innovative African-American Poetries
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"But I have seen it, clearly. I have seen it."
Adam Kirsch on William Carlos Williams and three recent books, "Something Urgent I Have to Say to You": The Life and Works of William Carlos Williams
"A land laid waste:"
Lucan's Civil War, translated by Matthew Fox, reviewed by Jane Wilson Joyce. (The Book)
"A friend and neighbor and counsellor:"
Adam Gopnik on Wisława Szymborska. (Culture Desk)
"The Poem Stuck in My Head"
Edmund White on Ezra Pound's translation of a poem by Li Po, "Exile’s Letter." (Paris Review Daily)
"Donnelly did something all too rare in the poetry world: He took his time."
David Orr on Timothy Donnelly's Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award-winning The Cloud Corporation. (Monkey See and NPR)
"Poetry always has to be defended."
Alexandra DiPalma talks with
Ben Lerner about his debut novel, Leaving the Atocha Station, poetry, fiction, and "what it means to have a profound experience of art." (Audio and text from Midmorning and Minnesota Public Radio)
• From the PD
archive: "Rotation"
Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award &
Kate Tufts Discovery Award:
Timothy Donnelly honored with
$100,000 prize for The Cloud Corporation;
Katherine Larson honored with
$10,000 award for
Radial Symmetry.
(The Washington Post)
"A hero of the written word:"
Why Trilling Matters, by Adam Kirsch, reviewed by Allan Massie. (The Times Literary Supplement)
"Spare, enigmatic Lorine Niedecker:"
Marjorie Perloff on Lorine Niedecker:
A Poet's Life, by Margot Peters. (The Times Literary Supplement)
Wisława Szymborska, 88
An obituary for the 1996 Nobel Prize-winner. (Boston.com)
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More
(The New York Times)
Dorothea Tanning, 101
An obituary for the painter, poet and ballet-set designer(Gallerist NY)
• More (The New York Times)
American Life in Poetry:
Ted Kooser presents Jaimee Kuperman's "The New Dentist." (American Life in Poetry)
TLS poem of the week:
Andrew McCulloch introduces Michael Donaghy's "Tears." (The Times Literary Supplement)
"With all due respect to her high office:"
Oxford professor of poetry Geoffrey Hill on "Poetry, Policing and Public Order," plus Carol Ann Duffy, texting, and "oligarchical commodity English." (The Guardian)
Argana International Poetry Award 2011:
Marilyn Hacker honored with award created "as a sign of poetic friendship from Moroccan poets to one of their fellow poets around the world." (Morocco World News)
The case for Lucretius:
Micahel Lista on Stephen Greenblatt's The Swerve: How the World Became Modern. (National Post)
Recently Arrived Titles
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list of all books and journals recently received at Poetry Daily is also available.
- Holding Company, Major Jackson (W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.)
- White Papers, Martha Collins (University of Pittsburgh Press)
- The Book of Life: Selected Jewish Poems, 1979-2011, Alicia Suskin Ostriker (University of Pittsburgh Press)
- Secrets No One Must Talk About, Martin Willitts Jr (Dos Madres Press, Inc.)
- From The Viewing Stand, Madeline Tiger (Dos Madres Press, Inc.)
- Black Square, Tadeusz Dąbrowski (Zephyr Press)
- Approaching You in English: Selected Poems of Admiel Kosman, Admiel Kosman, tr. Lisa Katz with Shlomit Naim-Naor (Zephyr Press)
- A Plum Tree in Leatherstocking Country, Daniel Bowman Jr (Virtual Artists Collective)
- Sailing Lake Mareotis, Eamonn Wall (Salmon Poetry)
Recent Anthologies, etc.
- The Wake Forest Book of Irish Women's Poetry, Peggy O'Brien, ed. (Wake Forest University Press)
- The Penguin Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Poetry, Rita Dove, ed. (Penguin)
- The Best American Poetry 2011, David Lehman, Kevin Young, eds. (Scribner)
- Beautiful & Pointless: A Guide to Modern Poetry, David Orr (Harper)
- A Journey with Two Maps: Becoming a Woman Poet, Eavan Boland (W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.)
- The FSG Book of Twentieth-Century Latin American Poetry, Ilan Stavans, ed. (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
- Attack of the Difficult Poems, Charles Bernstein (University of Chicago Press)
- 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)
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articles, interviews, selections from special collections and journal issues, and more are available in the Archives.
