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Poet Robert Blaser

Douglas Messerli / 26 jan 2010 / English

The death on May 7, 2009 of American-Canadian poet Robin Blaser sent me to my office shelf where I keep books waiting to be read. For three years Blaser's collected [...]

Jean-Dany Joachim, from Haiti

Jean-Dany Joachim / 22 jan 2010 / English

Curfew Before dawn The carnage started, My city fainted. Heavy machines sneaked in And seized the roads, The stones howled, And The houses, The beds, The windows, The tables, Shivered-shivered, [...]

Lourdes Vázquez: The Caribbean In Exile

David Michael Wolach / 17 jan 2010 / English

David Michael Wolach The Evergreen State College We are struggling with language. We are engaged in a struggle with language. --Wittgenstein, Culture and Value, 11e Why repeat ourselves? Why, I [...]

The Cuban poet Omar Pérez (English/Spanish)

Krystin Dykstra / 5 jan 2010 / English

Omar Pérez grew up in Havana, the city where he was born in 1964, and earned a degree in English Language and Literature from the University of Havana in 1987. [...]

One had the company: on Robert Creeley

Pierre Joris / 25 nov 2009 / English

“One had the company …” … he used to say. And now Robert Creeley’s gone. And thus the company has shrunk, strangely enough or not so strangely, much more than [...]

Propounding Modernist Maleness: How Pound Managed a Muse

Rachel Blau DuPlessis / 25 nov 2009 / English

This essay © by Rachel Blau DuPlessis and the University of Alabama Press appeared in, and is available from, Blue Studios: Poetry and Its Cultural Work. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama [...]

Charles Bernstein Close Listening Interview

Dmitri Golynko / 25 nov 2009 / English

Dmitri Golynko recorded a a Close Reading interview and conversation during a visit to the University of Pennsylvania's Kelly Writers House is November 2009. Both programs are available at Golynko's [...]

Où vont les chiens?

Jean-Marie Gleize / 21 nov 2009 / English

‘Où vont les chiens ? ’, ‘Where do the dogs go?’,1 this question is posed by Baudelaire in the last ‘prose’ poem (in Spleen de Paris) in order to evoke a kind of [...]

UPPER LAYERS OF THE ATMOSPHERE

Arkadii Dragomoshchenko / 20 nov 2009 / English

[on Alexei Parshchikov] He was walking uphill, and it was as if he was tightening the strings with himself and nut drawings were taking form. -- A. Parshchikov, DACHA ELEGY [...]

Lorine Niedecker, the Anonymous: Gender, Class, Genre and Resistances

Rachel Blau DuPlessis / 4 nov 2009 / English

A poem is a peculiar instance of language's uses, and goes well beyond the [person] writing--finally to the anonymity of any song. Robert Creeley (1989, 483) Anonymity was a great [...]

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