Thursday, July 23, 2015

Robert Creeley, Poetry Warrior

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Great news! The new issues of two of my favorite literary journals, The Laurel Review  and The Notre Dame Review , have dropped from the...
Thursday, July 16, 2015

Coming This Fall: The Kafka Sutra

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Behold! The cover of my next book, The Kafka Sutra , due out this fall from MadHat Press.  The title sequence is one of the odder things ...
Tuesday, July 14, 2015

How to Be A Classic: Four or Five Versions of Edgar Allan Poe

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Even though the concept of a literary canon has been in tatters for decades, the fact of a literary canon still, for better or for wo...
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Tuesday, July 07, 2015

What I Like About You, David Yezzi: Reading "Crane"

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What I like about you, David Yezzi, is that you wrote the poem "Crane," which I read when I was working my way through the sma...
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Wednesday, June 24, 2015

What I Like About You, Kathryn Starbuck: Reading "Sylvia En Route to Kythera"

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What I like about you, Kathryn Starbuck, is that you wrote "Sylvia En Route to Kythera," which I read in the June 2015 issue o...
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Thursday, June 18, 2015

Camping Modernism: Timothy Yu's "Chinese Silence #92"

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"Hot damn!" I thought, when I finally cleared some time to pick up my June issue of Poetry , "It's Tim Yu!"  Tim...
Monday, June 15, 2015

Tragedy and the Gift of Death: How Game of Thrones Ended Season Five

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Spectacles both violent and sexual; a world as fully imagined as Tolkien's; plot-lines as richly interwoven as a Celtic knot; a de...
Sunday, June 14, 2015

Charles Simic’s Stones: Three Speculations

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I remember lying in a ditch and staring at some pebbles while German bombers were flying over our heads. That was long ago. I don’t re...