Tuesday, July 19, 2016

Calculated Oddities: Notes on Ashbery and Form

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So I've been editing down the manuscript of my book-in-progress Making Nothing Happen: Poetry in Society, Poetry for Itself , and ha...
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Saturday, July 16, 2016

New in the Journal of Poetics Research: Notes on Marc Vincenz's Becoming the Sound of Bees

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Rejoice! The latest issue of the Journal of Poetics Research , John Tranter's latest creation (you may remember him for running t...
Wednesday, July 13, 2016

The Poem is Never Finished, Only Abandoned: W.H. Auden at Work

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W.H. Auden—what's not to love? And I don't just love Auden's writing, I love the enormous body of writing about him—memoirs,...
Friday, July 08, 2016

Sheena and the Sugar Book

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Sheena, the Ramones inform us, is a punk rocker.  She wasn't always, though—I once tried to combine the history and prehistory of th...
Tuesday, June 07, 2016

James Joyce Was Born in Omaha

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Rejoice! The new issue of Valley Voices  is out, and it's a special issue devoted to the writing of Michael Anania.  You'll fi...
Tuesday, May 31, 2016

So You’re a Critic—Now What? A Note on Barry Schwabsky and Critical Distance

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What is a critic supposed to do? If I know anything about critics, you could put a dozen of them around a café table and at the end o...
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Wednesday, May 25, 2016

The Apt Emblem of Robert Duncan

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There is a photograph of Robert Duncan touches on something central to the man and his poetics.   Two things, actually.   When Michael...
Monday, May 09, 2016

John Crowe Ransom's Quarrel With Himself

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This afternoon the latest issue of The Hudson Review  landed in my mailbox with the satisfying thump of old-school print media, and it...