Poetry News For May 4, 2008
Poetry News:
- — With her new novel, Lavinia, fantasy and science fiction virtuoso Ursula K. Le Guin vividly fills some of the blanks in Vergil’s Aeneid —
- — “I’m trying to get people to see a book as an aesthetic artifact, not as a generic container,” says Dave Wofford, who operates the one-man letterpress Horse and Buggy Press. —
- — But what if the plagiarists are children who won the KidsPost poetry contest, children who said the work was their own? —
- — In Heather McHugh’s Broken English, I found Ulli Beier’s translations of these ancient songs succinctly moving —
- — At 99, New Hampshire man becomes a first-time author —
- — Jorie Graham’s poetry is all about the vertiginous (and sometimes heady) experience of falling through the cracks —
- — In his day, Jeffers was a star: he appeared on the cover of Time, read his poems in the US Congress and was respected for the alternative he provided to the Modernist juggernaut —
