Poetry News for July 15, 2007
Poetry News:
- — For this trio, vive la différence! —
- — Yeats’s inspirations ranged from folklore to fascism —
- — Minnesota to get state poet laureate —
- — The fringe presses with a small margin for success —
- — One pleasure of art comes from how accurately it can convey ambivalence —
- — Baseball’s troubadour poet laureate —
- — Les Murray’s world subtly radiates holiness in whimsical poems —
- — Fiona Sampson’s exactitude and command of inner space in Common Prayer impress Adam Thorpe —
Deep down, I can’t help but think if we gave the kids in the Middle East 1,000s of electric guitars and amps and drumkits and rock and roll records, everything would turn out O.K.
Emily Dickinson:
Bees are Black, with Gilt Surcingles —
Buccaneers of Buzz.
Ride abroad in ostentation
and subsist on Fuzz.
Fuzz ordained — not Fuzz contingent —
Marrows of the Hill.
Jugs — a Universe’s fracture
Could not jar or spill.
