Wednesday, July 03, 2013

Rabbitarse Revealed!

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In W.H. Auden's long poem "Letter to Lord Byron," he compares the lives of poets of his own generation to the hyper-glamor...
Monday, July 01, 2013

Six Passages: Introducing Michael Benedikt

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Hot news!  We're only weeks away from the appearance of Time is a Toy: The Selected Poems of Michael Benedikt , in...
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Friday, June 21, 2013

A Wedding Cake in the Rain: Notes on Auden's Face

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"If that's his face, what must his scrotum look like?" asked the painter David Hockney after first meeting W.H. Auden.  Fo...
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Sunday, June 02, 2013

Emancipation of the Dissonance!

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"The Emancipation of the Dissonance," my retrospective review of C.S. Giscombe's career in poetry, has been republished by...
Friday, May 17, 2013

The Last Habsburg Poet: Marjorie Perloff on Paul Celan

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Richard Strier was already a few minutes into his introduction when I & my colleague Josh Corey stumbled into a packed room in the U...
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Friday, May 03, 2013

The Haunting of Jorge Luis Borges, or: Borges in the Kantian Tradition

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Jorge Luis Borges, lauded everywhere as one of the greats of short fiction, rarely gets his due as an essayist.  But his ess...
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Saturday, April 27, 2013

Fallon McPhael: Biographical Notes and The Previously Unpublished Condom Poems!

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Hot news, people!  An independent scholar living in Whiting, Indiana, has assembled biographical notes on the life of Fallon McPhael, ...
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