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"Lorca writes, 'Duende is a force not a labor, a struggle not a thought. I heard an old maestro of the guitar say: 'The duende is not in the throat: the duende surges up, inside, from the soles of the feet.' Meaning, it's not a question of skill, but of a style that's truly alive: meaning, it's in the veins; meaning, it's of the most ancient culture of immediate creation.'"—Eric Pankey, Duende and Gravity

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Paul Magee, Judith Beveridge, Tim Thorne:
New collections reviewed by Anthony Lynch. (The Australian)

"As it turns out, the world knows very little about him."
The Poet's Tale: Chaucer And The Year That Made The Canterbury Tales, by Paul Strohm, reviewed by Theresa Munoz. (Herald Scotland)

"Living Gorgeously"
Charles Simic on Mark Strand. (NYR Blog)

"If I described myself as an Ulsterman I’d have thought I was selling a bit of my birthright."
Seamus Heaney, in a late interview with the BBC's Mark Carruthers. (The Irish Times)

John Bayley, 89
An obituary for the Oxford don and literary critic. (The New York Times)
 • The TLS remembers John Bayley. (The Times Literary Supplement)

Timothy Donnelly reads and discusses Yusef Komunyakaa's "Fortress."
The New Yorker's latest poetry podcast. (The New Yorker)

"If you’d like to know your Rimbaud from your Baudelaire..."
Some suggestions on where to start. (RTÉ Ten)

"Rabbie Burns reborn"
The Oxford Edition of the Works of Robert Burns, Volume One: Commonplace books, tour journals and miscellaneous prose, edited by Nigel Leask, reviewed by Kathryn Sutherland. (The Times Literary Supplement)

"Any voice but my own; any place but here."
Saeed Jones remembers his earliest writing after hearing about James Byrd, Jr. (The New York Times)

Arriving too late and too early:
A Voice Still Heard: Selected Essays of Irving Howe, edited by Nina Howe, reviewed by David Marcus. (New Republic)

"Susan Howe’s Telepathy"
Jonathan Creasy on Howe's Spontaneous Particulars: The Telepathy of Archives. (Los Angeles Review of Books)

TLS poem of the week:
Andrew McCulloch introduces Alison Brackenbury's "No." (The Times Literary Supplement)

National Book Critics Circle awards:
Finalists in poetry include Saeed Jones, Willie Perdomo, Claudia Rankine, Christian Wiman, and Jake Adam York. (The New York Times)

American Life in Poetry:
Ted Kooser presents Kwame Dawes's "Coffee Break." (American Life in Poetry)

"D. A. Powell's Unruly Elegies"
Christopher Richards on Powell's Repast: Tea, Lunch, and Cocktails. (The New Yorker)
 • From Repast "[autumn set us heavily to task: unrooted the dahlias]"

The Guardian poem of the week:
Carol Rumens introduces Rory Waterman's "Access Visit." (The Guardian)

"poetry as an everyday event"
Jeannette Winterson on the "vast imagination" of Carol Ann Duffy. (The Guardian)

"plain American which cats and dogs can read"
Beverley Bie Brahic reviews Selected Poems: 1986-2012, by Thomas Lux. (The Guardian)

Recently Arrived Titles
These just in... Highlighted titles may be purchased from Poetry Daily / Amazon.com. A complete list of all books and journals recently received at Poetry Daily is also available.

• Hotel Worthy, Valerie Nieman (Press 53)
• Open 24 Hours, Suzanne Lummis (Lynx House Press)
• Half Out Where, Joseph Aguilar (Caketrain)
• Disposable Epics, Thibault Raoult (Caketrain)
• Wild Domestic, Natania Rosenfeld (Sheep Meadow Press)
• Loose Strife, Quan Barry (University of Pittsburgh Press)
• Immigrant Model, Mihaela Moscaliuc (University of Pittsburgh Press)
• Slag, Leslie Anne Mcilroy (Main Street Rag)
• Shook, Julia Paul (Grayson Books)
• Palimpsest, Maxine Silverman (Dos Madres Press)
• Planetary Nights, Jeanne LeVasseur (Word Poetry)
• The Art of Acquiescence, Joseph A. Chelius (Word Poetry)
• Every State Has Its Own Light, Sandra Storey (Word Poetry)
• Divining the Prime Meridian, Carol Smallwood (Word Poetry)
• Unthrifty Loveliness, Christopher Bursk (Word Poetry)
• Girl Who, Allison Wilkins (CW Books)
• Thirty-One Octets: Incantations and Meditations, Steven Wingate (CW Books)
• Interstate, Greg Weiss (CW Books)
• Mrs. Noah Takes the Helm, Elizabeth Schultz (Turning Point)
• The Gatherer, Judith Bowles (Turning Point)
• Thunderbirds, Christine Penko (Turning Point)
• Always, Julia Lisella (WordTech Editions)
• World of Hard Use, Faye George (WordTech Editions)
• Wanderlust, Dawn Schout (WordTech Editions)
• Justice Freedom Herbs, Margaret Rozga (WordTech Editions)
• Open Season, Neva Herrington (David Robert Books)
• Blood to Fruit, Tayve Neese (David Robert Books)

Past Features:
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