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Robert Lowell

Poetry News:

— ‘Poet cannibal’ arrested —

— Editor meets Henry Rollins —

— Writers Debate the Net’s Effect on Their Craft —

— A Lawyer, a Poet, and a Love Rekindled —

— Poet Hass’ ‘Time’ does not live up to ‘Praise’ —

— Robert Lowell’s 1960 statement regarding the state of poetry not only pitted the Beats against “cat-nip” [...]

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Poetry News:

— For three decades, he was poetry’s epicenter —

— Atwood is at a disadvantage having neither died at a tragically young age nor lived dissolutely —

— The Poetry of Phil Rizzuto —

— E.E. Cummings‘ book chronicling a 36-day trip in 1931 has been reissued after almost 50 years out of print —

— India to [...]

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Poetry News:

— Let’s do it, let’s fall in luff [link via Avoiding the Muse thank you] —

— Here’s a tortoise shell that reminds the poet of a soldier’s helmet and which leads me to a pet hate: computer games —

— A two-century jinx on a potential literary goldmine held true today —

— Galway Kinnell has [...]

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Poetry News:

It really seemed to be rather arbitrary that you would distinguish a concrete poem by Ian Hamilton Finley from a text-based work by Lawrence Weiner, to use two artist examples —

Frank Bidart’s services to Robert Lowell have been many —

Sieving her lines into ever-firmer leanness from collection to collection, she offsets any [...]

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New Translation of ‘Persian Book of Kings’
Poet Gail Mazur on Robert Lowell, “the textural richness of the ordinary,” and the value of artistic community
Paintball vandals target Whittier birthplace
Archaeologist links ancient palace, Ajax
PoetryFoundation.org Celebrates National Poetry Month With Daily Poetry Podcasts

Music journalist Ashley Kahn profiles singer-songwriter Neko Case

Tags: Brad Vice, Gail Mazur, John Greenleaf Whittier, [...]

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Evidently someone had the winning ticket for that $365 million Powerball jackpot.

Whereas Lowell’s poetry is fine-tuned - he was forever revising even already published work - his letters are slammed on the page in all the heights and depths of his episodic personality
Poet performs acts of devotion in calibrated observance of life
Laux reaches for the [...]

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