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View Article"Tradition and the Individual Talent" | essay by T. S. Eliot
T. S. Eliot’s essay on tradition and the individual is perhaps one of the most important essays of the period. It reiterates, or explores in a slightly different context, the very issues that Pound and...
View Article"Corsino Fortes: The Poetics and Politics of Seduction" | essay by Douglas...
Corsino Fortes: The Poetics and Politics of Seductionby Douglas Messerli Corsino Fortes Selected Poems of Corsino Fortes, translated from the Portuguese by Daniel Hahn and Sean O’Brien (Brooklyn, New...
View ArticleLev Rubinstein | Poems "Index of Poetry" and "For It Is Said" [link]
Read two poems by Lev Rubenstein, "Index of Poetry" and "For It Is Said," below:http://www.diodepoetry.com/v6n2/content/rubinstein_metres_tulchinsky.html
View Article"How I Got It: Marsden Hartley's Portraits of Love" | essay by Douglas...
How I Got It: Marsden Hartley’s Portraits of Loveby Douglas MesserliDieter Scholz, ed, with essays by Ilene Susan Fort, Thomas W. Gehtgens, Kaitlyn Hogue Mellini, Alexis Pooth, Bruce Robertson, Thomas...
View Article"Recovery of the Stolen Words: Bill Berkson's Sudden Address: Selected...
For an essay-review "Recovery of the Stolen Words: Bill Berkson's Sudden Address: Selected Lectures 1981-2006" by Murat Nemat-Nejat click...
View Article"A Retrospect" | statements on poetry by Ezra Pound
Pound brought his ideas of poetry together with a brief restatement in his book concerning the sculptor Gaudier-Brezska in 1918. This document permitted him to express the clearest and most detailed...
View Article"Expatracination" | essay/manifesto by A. Lincoln Gillespie, Jr.
Abraham Lincoln Gillespie, Jr.EXPATRACINATION I. (a) because in Europe I find MeaningScurry in their .Organise-Self-Divert -- hours loll here all simmer-rife-Expect-lush-stat, GET is less-necessary....
View Article"The Poet with a Razor in His Vest" | essay/review by Douglas Messerli (on...
The Poet with a Razor in His VestAmiri Baraka SOS: Poems 1961-2013, edited, with an Introduction by Paul Vangelisti (New York: Grove Press, 2014)About a year after writing a tribute to Amiri Baraka...
View Article"The Irony of Fate: On the Mystery of John Ashbery's Posthumous Work" |...
To read "The Irony of Fate: On the Mystery of John Ashbery's Posthumous Work" by Ryan Ruby (on Ashbery's Parrallel Movement of the Hands) go...
View ArticleAnselm Hollo | poems [link]
To read poems (including "5 & 7 & 5") by Anselm Hollo, go here: https://poets.org/poem/5-7-5?fbclid=IwAR3ZKTKjdSFWdFe8FjNn_tUEY0LXoumeZ1CJXCI6EKc4ASRVUPOxlR-NTeo
View ArticleGrzegorz Wróblewski | five poems [link]
For five poems by Grzegorz Wróblewski, go here:https://jacket2.org/poems/five-poems-wroblewski
View ArticleGrzegorz Wróblewski | poem "Rooms and Gardens" [link]
Go here: https://www.wordswithoutborders.org/contributor/grzegorz-wroblewski to read the poem "Rooms and Gardens" by Grzegorz Wróblewski
View ArticleGrzegorz Wróblewski | two poems [link]
https://granta.com/two-poems-wroblewski/#:~:text=Grzegorz%20Wr%C3%B3blewski%20Grzegorz%20Wr%C3%B3blewski%20was%20born%20in%201962,many%20books%20of%20poetry%2C%20drama%20and%20other%20writings.Two...
View Article"To Speak Out of Difference" | review by Vincent Katz (of Michael Palmer's...
To read a review "To Speak Out of Difference" of Michael Palmer's Active Boundaries: Poetry at the Periphery by Vincent Katz “ http://jacketmagazine.com/40/r-palmer-rb-katz.shtml
View ArticleMac Wellman | poem ("Three Egegious Errors")
THREE EGREGIOUS ERRORS Mac Wellman UH-OH To live...
View ArticleMyung Mi Kim (b. South Korea / USA) 1957
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View Article"Dread States: Samuel Beckett's Poems" | essay by Douglas Messerli (on...
Dread States: Samuel Beckett’s Poemsby Douglas MesserliSamuel Beckett The Collected Poems of Samuel Beckett (New York: Grove Press, 2014) Confronting the new volume of The Collected Poems of Samuel...
View ArticleAdolf Wölfli (Switzerland) 1864-1930
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View Article"Nina Zivancevic's 1983 interview with Charles Bernstein and Douglas...
Interview, "Nina Zivancevic's 1983 interview with Charles Bernstein and Douglas Messerli, with a postrcript by Messerli"go here:...
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