Poetry News For June 20, 2008

Poetry News:

— Tasha Tudor, 92 —

— From Verse to Controversy — And Fleeting Fame —

— One of the liberties that poetry takes, and that prose can’t, is temporarily to break up or interrupt a sentence with a line ending —

— On the contrary, Lowell had mastered that style so completely that he had exhausted its possibilities —

— One of the hardest subjects to treat in verse, armed conflict has a diverse history in poetry. How would you tackle the subject? —

— Poetry Off the Shelf Podcast Listening to Grace Paley read her poems. [mp3] —

— Wright’s emphasis on bearing witness, on counting and recounting victims, and calling the powerful to account, makes up one crucial aspect of her project, and calls to mind the work of 20th-century activist poets like Kenneth Fearing, Langston Hughes and Muriel Rukeyser —

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3 comments

BSH:

Amazing blog.

http://desabafos-solitarios.blogspot.com/

June 20th, 2008 at 4:58 pm

jessica:

How did I miss that item about Tasha Tudor? She was wonderful, and I love the line about “she could play the dulcimer and handle a gun.”

I have a letter around here somewhere that she wrote to my mother, who, I think, interviewed her once for a magazine. Tudor had beautiful, precise, and what looks like fountain-pen handwriting.

June 24th, 2008 at 7:51 am

Jilly Dybka:

Wow Jessica.

June 25th, 2008 at 12:02 pm