"Where the photographs insist on a tension between figure and ground, an excited, impassive inside-joke feeling, the films dissipate that tension, amassing beautiful and silly details en route to the sublime." Jordan Davis discusses the poetics of Rudy Burckhardt's photography and film.…
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Curious Specimens: An Exchange
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/feature.html?id=181503In the second of a series of exchanges in which we are bringing poets together to discuss new books, Cate Marvin and Joshua Mehigan spar over books by Alice Oswald and Daniel Anderson.…
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Photo Finnish
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/feature.html?id=181477"Parland seems to be scribbling on napkins that scatter to the winds as he devotes himself to the truly urgent project-simply living." Jana Prikryl traces Henry Parland's path from bullied schoolboy to literary prodigy to forgotten avant-garde poet.…
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Birthdays of Poets
http://birthdaysofpoets.blogspot.comDan Gerber's most recent book is Trying to Catch the Horses (Michigan State University Press, 1999). "The Rain Poured Down" copyright © 2005 by Dan Gerber and reprinted by permission of the author. From http://poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=171141 accessed 5/17/08
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Dan Gerber
http://birthdaysofpoets.blogspot.com/2008/05/dan-gerber.htmlDan Gerber's most recent book is Trying to Catch the Horses (Michigan State University Press, 1999). "The Rain Poured Down" copyright © 2005 by Dan Gerber and reprinted by permission of the author. From http://poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=171141 accessed 5/17/08
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This Recording
http://thisrecording.wordpress.comFrank O’Hara by Bridget Moloney I first read Frank O’Hara on Christmas Day, 1999. My sister gave me a copy of The Selected Poems of Frank O’Hara edited by Donald Allen. It has a line drawing of a nude man, wearing what I always took to be socks but have recently considered boots
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I, Soapbox
http://upturnedsoapbox.blogspot.comChecked out this yet: Poetry Foundation
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Two Interviews: Fady Joudah and Hayan Charara
http://behindthelinespoetry.blogspot.com/2008/05/two-intervi...Here are links to two interviews of Fady Joudah and Hayan Charara, two Arab American poets whose work in 2008 has brought a new visibility to Arab American poetry. Fady's interview is on the Poetry Foundation blog
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Seussian
http://chatoyance.blogspot.com/2008/05/seussian.htmlPoor Angels" by Edward Hirsch
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Missoula, Missoula
http://wwwwsonneteighteencom.blogspot.com/2008/05/missoula-m...were dramatic enough. Say Montana and many people will think of General Custer, Evel Knievel and the Unabomber, but David Lynch was also suckled, awed and deformed by it. Born in Missoula, Lynch wrote about growing up in the Northwest Inland Empire: [...]
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Detainees
http://wwwwsonneteighteencom.blogspot.com/ progressive-environmentalist overlap, and the liberal conservationist / hunter-fisher overlap, and the semi-wilderness animal habitat / suburban-urban development overlap, and so forth and so on. Makes the East Coast seem positively banal. [Youna Kwak in a 1/15/08 email] I think Missoula is a great little town -- it's also where I got the largest audience of my life, debating Baudrillard in front of 600 people [Ron Silliman in a 3/5/08 email] Do poetry readings represent the dying or the
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A Dance to the Bloggery of Powell's
http://thedizzies.blogspot.com/2008/05/dance-to-bloggery-of-...My final blog post is up at Powell's! It's a doozy! Topics covered: browsing, bookshelf neighbors, Anthony Powell, Edward Payson Vining, Henriette Mertz's Pale Ink, Pale Fire, Gossip Girl, Levi Stahl's notebook article for TPF, a mysterious book called The Logogryph, and...oh yes, Personal Days! (Find all my posts here, and marvel how I got through the whole week without mentioning Keeler. And this is how Personal Days looks on the Powell's shelf.)
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A Dance to the Bloggery of Powell’s
http://hermenaut.org/2008/05/16/a-dance-to-the-bloggery-of-p...My final blog post is up at Powell's! It's a doozy! Topics covered: browsing, bookshelf neighbors, Anthony Powell, Edward Payson Vining, Henriette Mertz's Pale Ink, Pale Fire, Gossip Girl, Levi Stahl's notebook article for TPF, a mysterious book called The Logogryph, and...oh yes, Personal Days! (Find all my posts here, and marvel how I got through the whole week without mentioning Keeler. And this is how Personal Days looks on the Powell's shelf.)
