Lev Rubinstein (USSR/Russia) 1947
Lev Rubinstein (see also Rubinshtein) (USSR/Russia)1947 Born in Moscow on February 19, 1947, Lev Rubinstein took part in the Russian literary underground while working as a librarian, a position that...
View Article"The Poetry of Osip Mandelstam" | radio play by Paul Celan
For a radio play by Paul Celan: The Poetry of Osip Mandelstam, trans. by Pierre Joris, go here:http://poemsandpoetics.blogspot.com/2016/02/the-poetry-of-osip-mandelstam-radio.html
View Article"Installing Lev Rubinstein's 'Farther and Farther On': From Note Cards to...
"Installing Lev Rubinstein's 'Farther and Farther On': From Note Cards to Field Walks" | essay by Philip Metres, click below:http://vectors.usc.edu/thoughtmesh/publish/176.php
View ArticlePhilippe Jaccottet (Switzerland / writes in French) 1925-2021
Philippe Jaccottet (Switzerland / writes in French)1925-2021 Born in Moudon, Switzerland, in the Canton of Vaud, on June 30, 1925, Philippe Jaccottet is one of the major living French language poets of...
View ArticleCorrado Costa (Italy) 1929-1991
Corrado Costa (Italy)1929-1991Born in Mulino di Bazzano (Parma) in 1929, Corrado Costa died of a heart attack in 1991 at his Reggio Emilia law office where he worked for most of his adult life as a...
View Article"The Danish 'It' Girl" | essay by Douglas Messerli (on Inger Christensen's det)
The Danish “It” Girlby Douglas MesserliInger Christensen det (Copenhagen: Gyldendahl, 1969), translated into English from the Danish by Susanna Nied as it (New York: New Directions, 2006)It seems...
View Article"Cultivating Mirages" | essay by Douglas Messerli (Essay on Ranjit Hoskote's...
Cultivating Mirages Ranjit Hoskote Central Time: Poems 2006-2014 (New Delhi: Penguin Books India, 2014) Indian Anglophone poet Ranjit Hoskote’s most recent collection of poetry, Central Time, is filled...
View ArticleDouglas Messerli (USA) 1947
Douglas Messerli (USA) 1947Born in Waterloo, Iowa in 1947, Douglas Messerli grew up in a very ordinary American home. His father, a former coach, was the superintendent of the public schools and his...
View Article"Three Poems by [Philippe] Jaccottet"| poems by Jaccottet [link]
To read "Three Poems by Jaccottet" (poems by Philippe Jaccottet, translated by C. K. Stead), go here:http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-Ba38Spo-t1-body1-d11.html
View Article"Preface to Leaves of Grass" | essay by Walt Whitman (on 1855 edition of...
Walt Whitmanpreface to Leaves of Grass (1855 edition)AMERICA does not repel the past or what it has produced under its forms or amid other politics or the idea of castes or the old religions . . . ....
View Article"Essential Dichotomies" | essay by Douglas Messerli (on Amiri Baraka's death,...
Essential DichotomiesAmiri Baraka The Toilet, first presented in New York at St. Mark’s Playhouse, on December 16, 1964; reprinted from Douglas Messerli and Mac Wellman, eds., From the Other Side of...
View Article"The Man Who Always Was" | essay by Bob Arnold (on Cid Corman) [link]
To read "The Man Who Always Was," Bob Arnold's essay on Cid Corman, go here: https://jacket2.org/article/man-who-always-was
View Article"Reclaiming Corman: Cid Corman's Dorchester Past" | essay by Kevin Bowen [link]
For Kevin Bowen's essay, "Reclaiming Corman: Cid Corman's Dorchester Past" go here: https://jacket2.org/article/reclaiming-corman
View Article"Bashō’s Pheasant: Cid Corman and Kyōto" | essay by George Evans [link]
To read the essay "Bashō’s Pheasant: Cid Corman and Kyōto" by George Evans, click here: https://jacket2.org/article/bash%C5%8Ds-pheasant
View ArticleCid Corman | "Fifteen Poems" [ed. by Jim Dunn and Kevin Gallagher] [link]
To read 15 poems by Cid Corman, edited by Jim Dunn and Kevin Gallagher, go here: https://jacket2.org/poems/fifteen-poems
View ArticleOrigin and Origin Press | magazine and literary Press (ed. by Cid Corman)
Origin and Origin Press | Magazine and Literary PressIn 1951, in response to a planned but failed project by his friend Robert Creeley, Corman began the magazine, Origin, devoted, primarily, to one...
View ArticleCid Corman (USA) 1924-2004
Cid (Sidney) Corman (USA)1924-2004Born in Boston’s Roxbury area, Sidney Corman grew up with parents from the Ukraine in the Dorchester neighborhood. He attended Boston Latin School, in 1941 entering...
View Article"Cid Corman" | obituary essay by Michael Carlson
To read an obituary of “Cid Corman” by Michael Carlson in England’s The Guardian, click below:http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/2004/apr/15/guardianobituaries.booksobituariesPhoto: Fran Ryan
View ArticleAttila József (Hungary) 1905-1937
Attila József (Hungary)1905-1937Born the son of Áron Józef, a soap factory work originally from Transylvania, Attila József was born on April 11, 1905 in Ferencváros, a poor neighborhood of Budapest....
View ArticleRobin Blaser (b. USA/Canada) 1925-2009
Robin Blaser (b. USA/Canada) 1925-2009 Born at Denver, Colorado, Robin Blaser grew up in small desert communities in Idaho where his father and grandmother, Sophia Nichols, worked for the railway....
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