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"If only it all had been true, if the visions of sublimity had not turned out to be delusions: apparitions of meaning that were replaced—by what? This is the question the book raises repeatedly and exasperatedly. Is there something else? Or is there—as the book’s last words have it—nothing there?"
—Robert Hahn, Nothing There: The Late Poetry of John Koethe
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TLS poem of the week:
Fergus McGhee introduces Lawrence Durrell's "One Grey Greek Stone." (The Times Literary Supplement)
"Liu Xiaobo and the Meaning of Chinese Patriotism"
Jiayang Fan on the Nobel Peace Prize laureate's "life and... legacy in the longer arc of Chinese history." (The New Yorker)
"The Importance of Being Ordinary"
A Surprised Queenhood in the New Black Sun: The Life of Legacy of Gwendolyn Brooks, by Angela Jackson, reviewed by Lovia Gyarkye. (New Republic)
"A Polish Poet Leaves Verse Behind, but Not His Lost City"
Daisy Fried reviews Slight Exaggeration, by Adam Zagajewski, translated by Clare Cavanagh. (The New York Times)
"Why W.S. Merwin endures, and other best poetry to read this month"
Elizabeth Lund reviews books by Merwin, Erika L. Sánchez, and Maureen N. McLane. (The Washington Post)
Ocean Vuong, Adam O'Riordan, Colette Bryce:
New works reviewed by Paul Batchelor. (New Statesman)
"The Mysteries of John Ashbery"
The Songs We Know Best: John Ashbery's Early Life, by Karin Roffman, reviewed by Evan Kindley. (New Republic)
The Guardian poem of the week:
Carol Rumens introduces "Chimera," by Stephen Romer. (The Guardian)
American Life in Poetry:
Ted Kooser presents Emily Ransdell's "Bowling in Heaven." (American Life in Poetry)
"This is for the aggrieved ghosts."
Perry Link on the life of Liu Xiaobo. (The New York Review of Books)
Funeral for Liu Xiaobo:
The ashes of Liu Xiaobo, Chinese Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, poet and dissident, were scattered in the Yellow Sea. (BBC)
State Lines:
David Roderick introduces an excerpt to "Headnote to a Done Poem" by Douglas Kearney. (San Francsco Chronicle)
Poetry Sunday:
Susan Cohen introduces Francine Sterle's "The Way Back." (Women's Voices for Change)
Nurturing "the conversatin of the spirit":
John Wilkens chats with Dana Gioia. (The San Diego Union-Tribune)
"... the slow, painstaking crafting of poems:"
Peter Sirr reviews In Search of Poetry, by Richard Murphy. (The Irish Times)
"The enduring allure of A.E. Housman’s poetry"
Michael Dirda reviews Housman Country: Into the Heart of England, by Peter Parker. (The Washington Post)
"Poetry is an espresso shot of thought"
Claire Armitstead talks with Daljit Nagra about "his journey from school dropout to poetry prizewinner." (The Guardian)
"From the King"
Terrance Hayes introduces a poem by Nick Makoha. (The New York Times)
"How Poems Inspire Pictures"
Six "visual essays" inspired by poems by Ada Limón, Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello, Adrian Matejka, Jericho Brown, Katy Lederer and Jenny Johnson. (The New York Times)
Liu Xiaobo, 61
An obituary for the Chinese writer, dissident, and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. (The Washington Post)
"The Secret Lessons of Soviet Children’s Poems"
Ania Aizman reviews The Fire Horse: Children's Poems by Vladimir Mayakovsky, Osip Mandelstam and Daniil Kharms, translated by Eugene Ostashevsky. (The New Yorker)
"'Tis Pity Such a Pretty Maid As I Should Go to Hell"
Anthony Madrid on what kids want from children's poetry. (Paris Review Daily)
Recently Arrived Titles
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list of all books and journals recently received at Poetry Daily is also available.
- The Moon Is Almost Full, Chana Bloch (Autumn House Press)
- Distant Mandate, Ange Mlinko (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
- Hotel Domilocos, Ellen Waterston (Moonglade Press)
- A Packet of Poems for Ezra Pound, Catherine Paul & Justin Kishbaugh, eds. (Clemson University Press)
- White Nights, Alan Jenkins (The Sheep Meadow Press)
- Closet Sonnets: the Life of G. S. Crown (1950-2021), Yakov Azriel (The Sheep Meadow Press)
- Vixen, Cherene Sherrard (Autumn House Press)
- The Stars of Earth: New and Selected Poems, Emily Grosholz (Word Galaxy Press)
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