Wednesday, December 18, 2013

Life, Barely: Notes on Clive James

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Lady Diana Cooper Everyone is connected to everyone, the saying goes, by no more than six degrees of separation.  Between...
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Saturday, December 14, 2013

The Poet Resigns: A Notable Book of the Year at the Poetry Foundation

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Great news! (Well, great news for me): T he Poet Resigns  has been picked as a notable book of the year by Alfred Corn on the Poetry Fou...
Tuesday, December 03, 2013

Slate Magazine on The Poet Resigns

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Slate magazine has asked its critics to come up with a list of the best overlooked books of 2013 , and I'm very happy to see that my...
Friday, November 15, 2013

"Imagine That Happening Again in Poetry": The Future and History of Rhyme

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Anthony Madrid (right) with Michael Robbins and Stephanie Anderson It is, of course, a debatable proposition that Anthony Madrid's...
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Friday, November 08, 2013

The German Self, The German Soul: Notes on Ambiguity and Translation

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One of the things I like about teaching at a liberal arts college is the way the small scale of the place throws me together with people...
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Saturday, November 02, 2013

They Call it "Grunge": Mid-90s Time Capsule

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Rooting around for some documents, I ran across a journal I kept from 1993-1996, when I was in my twenties, living in Chicag...
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Thursday, October 31, 2013

W.H. Auden and Ecopoetry

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A little article I wrote on W.H. Auden and ecopoetics for the good people at Boston Review  can now be found on their web site.  It beg...
Sunday, October 27, 2013

Lou Reed, R.I.P./Glam Rock, the Poem

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Lou Reed has died.  He always meant a lot to me, and not just because I met my wife when she was singing backup in a Lou Reed/Velvet Und...