“What I found when I resolved to read him.”
Poems
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Recurring Screens
“A screen saver periodically smokes the locusts out, thereby saving the screen from the disfigurement of monotony.”
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Maximalisma
“A professor endeavors to separate treasure from trash—before her children have to do it for her.”
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A.O. Scott’s Poetry Lessons
“A conversation with the NYT critic on his popular close reads of poems.”
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How the Poet Christian Wiman Keeps His Faith
“Pushpin-specific lists fill his essays; single, stirring images lift from lines of his poems like the pages of a pop-up book.”
Posted inArts & Culture, Highlight, Profiles & Interviews, Quote Posts, Quotes
Jericho Brown: ‘Write into the Deep Dark Wreck’
“I grow green with hope. I’d like to end there.”
Posted inArts & Culture, Essays & Criticism, Highlight, Quote Posts, Quotes
As Impossible and Imperfect as Translation
“But poetry…has helped me to find new meaning within and across linguistic boundaries.”
Posted inArts & Culture, Nonfiction, Reading List
Lawrence Ferlinghetti at 100: A Reading List
Beat poet and City Lights publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti turns 100 on March 24. Here’s a reading list to celebrate the centenarian.
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“How common is the lightning?” Gabrielle Bellot on Yeats, Walcott, and Finding Inspiration
“I want someone to remember even just one of my songs, especially when a night is too silent, and that old gray curls back around me like a shroud, making me wonder, again, if any song of mine will be worth recalling at all.”
Posted inNonfiction, Profiles & Interviews, Quotes
Rita Dove on Creating a ‘Collage of American Consciousness’ with Poetry
“The sole criterion is, how does it move us? Does it pull us out of our everyday trot?”