Poetry News for October 17, 2007
Poetry News:
- — Students learn Dante’s Disco Inferno —
- — A desperate and decayed world of gamblers and faded whores has one onlooker in its thrall —
- — The Real Carver: Expansive or Minimal? —
- — China’s voices of dissent —
- — A conversation with Maya Angelou —
- — Governor General’s Literary Awards Finalists —
- — Due to recent industrial action, postal deliveries may be affected. We are thus making this week’s issue available in epaper format, free of charge. [I can't get it to work though] —
That image goes with the blink tag from Monday. hahaha
What should we do for our wedding anniversary this weekend to celebrate our troth plightin’? What is going on in Nashville Sunday?
Tags: Brian Henderson, Charles Baudelaire, Dennis Lee, Don Domanski, Margaret Atwood, Poems, Poetry, Poetry News, poets, Richard Howard, Rob Winger
Clay Banes responds:
Posted: October 17th, 2007 at 1:50 am →
it’s my birthday.
poet with a day job responds:
Posted: October 17th, 2007 at 11:40 am →
I totally want to hear Disco Inferno. At first I thought it was a ridiculous idea, but after reading the article it occurred to me that perhaps poetry should always circle back to being performed in its originally intended way: theatrically. So we turn up the bass on it a little…so what?
Sam Rasnake responds:
Posted: October 17th, 2007 at 4:37 pm →
Thanks for the link to the Carver article. I much prefer the minimal - and so did he, for that matter. Most of the stories from his original collection that were reprinted years later were the Lish versions - so even Carver agreed. This makes me think of The Waste Land. Obviously, Eliot was the writer of the great work, but without the input and direction given by Valerie Eliot and Ezra Pound, the poem would not have been as impacting. I feel the same way about Carver’s stories. What Lish saw in them was the greatness at the core.
Jilly Dybka responds:
Posted: October 20th, 2007 at 10:17 pm →
Happy Birthday
I thought Disco Inferno was a great idea. I want to hear it. :0
I like Raymond Carver’s minimalist stories too even though I get him mixed up with Raymond Chandler haha I like them both. But I am curious to read the other versions for comparison.