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Boris Pasternak

Poetry News:

— Spent 22 Years Collecting 15,000 Similes; Frank J. Wilstach’s Ardent and Relentless Hunt for This Elusive Figure of Speech Results in a Remarkable Collection - By Joyce Kilmer [book is at Google books] —

— The Totality of Causes: Li-Young Lee and Tina Chang in Conversation —

— “Jennifer L. Knox is pure magic.” —

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Poetry News:

— Poets of the magnitude and agility of Tsvetaeva and Pasternak are, in all senses, hard to follow —

— Instead of love ballads sung by scantily clad singers, the contestants offered the rhyme and rhythm of a flowery style of Bedouin poetry known as Nabati —

— Local writer wins poetry prize —

— Rowling [...]

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Poetry News:

Google mashes up books and maps —

“I hate publishing!” Alfred Tennyson complained —

Edward Thomas on the Lagans Road by Seamus Heaney —

The Man With Two Brains —

A New Book Promises an Intriguing Twist to the Epic Tale of ‘Doctor Zhivago’ —

Remembering Brainard —

Edwin Arlington Robinson article at the [...]

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Poetry News:

How does a child learn that the stress is on the second syllable of giraffe, and on the first of zebra? —

The new year will bring the 250th anniversary of the birth of William Blake —

Russia: CIA Helped Pasternak Win Nobel Prize —

Poet Moves Off the Grid to Reconnect —

Monument [...]

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The U.S. poet laureate and winner of this year‘ Pulitzer Prize in poetry is a Unitarian Universalist
The poet Walt Whitman gazes with affection at his companion, Peter Doyle, a streetcar conductor
Here, Bullet, reflects his war-time experiences in graceful and unflinching poetry
The first modern dictionary of the English language was an extraordinary achievement, even for a [...]

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