Samizdat Blog

Hot news!  The latest Chicago Review  is out, devoted, for the most part, to the poetry of A.R. Ammons, including previously unpublished...

"How long have we been married?" I asked my wife Valerie not long ago.  "Our next anniversary," she relied after ...

A couple of weeks ago I was poking around in a local bookstore, and had just given up on the poetry section when I noticed a few tall, sve...

Rejoice!   Work from Memory , a new book by Dan Beachy-Quick and Matthew Goulish, has just hit the shelves!  The book, from Ahsahta Pres...

Poe was one of the greatest technicians of modern literature.  As Valéry pointed out, he was the first to attempt the scientific s...

Hot news!  John Matthias' Collected Longer Poems  has just appeared, published a month ahead of schedule by the good people at Shear...

" If you don't find these turns of phrases intriguing,   enticing , I fear that we cannot be friends."  This sentence, whi...

"Bohemian Rhapsodies," a little thing I wrote about Roberto  Bolaño and  Jules Laforgue, has been out in print for a while but...

I'm almost done (for the time being) with the shameless plugging of my forthcoming book The Poet Resigns , due out in the spring.  B...

After a gathering of scholarly intensity of a kind not seen since the Second Vatican Council, my publisher has approved the jacket and c...

I've been working on a chapter about T.S. Eliot for a book whose current working title is Poetry, Autonomy, Society, and I...

This is the cover of a book of my essays, due out in a few months as part of the series in Contemporary Poetics from the University of Ak...