New on Poets.org
"Coming to the End of His Triumph": On Jack Gilbert
Dressed in Mourning: Faiz Ahmed Faiz
"The Difference Is Spreading": Marjorie Perloff on Gertrude Stein
We'll Team Up: Joshua Beckman & Matthew Rohrer
Listen up: Lux, Mullen, Creeley, Brock-Broido & Digges
Poetcast: Kinnell, Wright, Pinsky & Orr
The Most Popular: Poets, Audio & Books
Just Elected: Lyn Hejinian, Sharon Olds & Carl Phillips
"Coming to the End of His Triumph": On Jack Gilbert
"From the beginning, Jack Gilbert understood that he was in the possession
of a true gift, and surely he also understood that to bask in the comfort
and ease that his new position in the "literary world" provided him would be
to care for that gift improperly," explains Dan Albergotti in his
retrospective on the poet that examines his elusive nature and startling poems. "He has always considered poetry to be a deeply serious and important art, one that is too easily trivialized in American culture." Read the
essay, along with poems and audio clips from Gilbert newly added to Poets.org.
On the web at: www.poets.org/jgilb
Dressed in Mourning: Faiz Ahmed Faiz
Throughout a tumultuous life, wounded by war and exile, Faiz Ahmed Faiz wrote
and published powerful poems of both love and politics, combining classical
forms with unconventional tone and themes. About his work, the critic Edward
Said has said, "You could hear old and new together. His purity and
precision were astonishing... a poet whose poetry combined the sensousness of
Yeats with the power of Neruda. He was, I think, one of the greatest poets
of this century." Read a biography of Faiz on Poets.org, along with six translations of his work by Naomi Lazard and Agha Shahid Ali.
On the web at: www.poets.org/fafai
"The Difference Is Spreading": Marjorie Perloff on Gertrude Stein
"She forces us to reconsider how language actually constructs the world we
know," declares the critic Marjorie Perloff about Gertrude Stein, examining
and exploring the use of language in her poems. "From Ashbery, John Cage,
and Louis Zukofsky to such contemporaries as Rae Armantrout and Harryette
Mullen, poets have been playing 'Catch as catch as coal up' with her
brilliant linguistic inventions." Read the essay and four excerpts from
Tender Buttons, just added to Poets.org.
On the web at: www.poets.org/gstei
We'll Team Up: Joshua Beckman & Matthew Rohrer
"We've always been interested in collaboration and the idea that being an artist or a writer in a community becomes a form of collaboration—not just working in dialogue with people, but actually writing with them,"
explain Joshua Beckman and Matthew Rohrer about their collaborative project
, which resulted in a collection of poems and a national reading tour. Read an
essay about their process and experience, along with three of their
collaborative poems on Poets.org.
On the web at: www.poets.org/jbeck & www.poets.org/mrohr
Listen up: Lux, Mullen, Creeley, Brock-Broido & Digges
Just added to the ever-expanding collection of audio clips on Poets.org:
Thomas Lux reading "Render, Render," Harryette Mullen reading "Present Tense," Robert Creeley's somber 1964 recording of "Kore," Lucie
Brock-Broido's "Periodic Table of Ethereal Elements," and Deborah Digges reciting "Telling The Bees."
On the web at: www.poets.org/audio
Poetcast: Kinnell, Wright, Pinsky & Orr
The latest Poets.org Poetcast features Galway Kinnell reading "Lying in a
Hammock at William Duffy's Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota," by James Wright,
Robert Pinsky reading "Other Hand," and Gregory Orr reading "[To be
alive...]."
On the web at: www.poets.org/poetcast
The Most Popular: Poets, Books & Audio
Gary Soto, Adrienne Rich, and Billy Collins each found a spot among the most
popular writers on Poets.org. See who else made the list, as well as the top
poetry books and audio clips this fall.
On the web at: www.poets.org/poets, www.poets.org/poems & www.poet.org/audio
Just Elected: Lyn Hejinian, Sharon Olds & Carl Phillips
The poets Lyn Hejinian, Sharon Olds, and Carl Phillips have been elected to the Board of Chancellors, the
Academy of American Poets' advisory board of distinguished poets. Learn more about the new chancellors, listen to audio clips, and read poems and essays on Poets.org.
On the web at: www.poets.org/lheji, www.poets.org/solds & www.poets.org/cphil
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