Poetry News For April 19, 2008
Poetry News:
- — The sonnet is a frequently misunderstood form with an enduring appeal. Fancy having a crack at your own ‘little song’? —
- — it also cements her reputation as the greatest poet of her generation —
- — This sense of freedom is produced by Ashbery’s diction (no American poet has had a larger, more diverse vocabulary, not Whitman, not Pound) as well as his formal choices. —
- — Sometimes the hothouse of a partnership fosters frustration and magnifies our tiniest faults —
- — Dylan Thomas revival proves death has no dominion —
- — Crozier realised that with a sensibility as English as his own, he couldn’t create a postscript to Black Mountain, so he left America and came home —
- — Wash. adviser fired for helping underground paper regains job —
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