Poetry News For February 18, 2008
Poetry News:
- — With passion, precise imagery, astute description, the well-traveled poet covers a lot of ground —
- — Some say that if we make a space for the person we wish for, then that spot may be suitably filled —
- — As T. S. Eliot once remarked, we cannot say where technique begins or where it ends —
- — He is a Pulitzer Prize nominee, a two-time Academy award nominee, the translator of Jacques Brel and the most successful living poet. And you’ve probably never heard of him. —
- — A friend told me years ago that he read poetry because it cleaned up his act —
- — Academic critics and high school students, feminists and curmudgeons, fellow poets as different as Frank O’Hara and James Merrill - all have embraced this sharp-edged, slyly elegant work, with its way of interlacing the domestic and the volcanic —
- — Almodovar films story of poet jailed by Franco —
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