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Comment on Rozewicz Comes to America, II by Donald Hudson

Donald Hudson — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 06:34:42 +0000

I just saw that Sobbing Superpower has been shortlisted for the Griffin Prize:

http://www.griffinpoetryprize.com/awards-and-poets/shortlists/2012-shortlist/joanna-trzeciak/

Don Hudson

Comment on In Memoriam: Margaret Weatherford by Dave Dixon

Dave Dixon — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 14:52:47 +0000

Thank you for the excerpts. Her passion for individual words is intoxicating. I remember a week where “hirsute” delighted her.

Comment on In Memoriam: Margaret Weatherford by Katie Brennan

Katie Brennan — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 19:59:26 +0000

A gorgeous person and a wonderful writer.

Comment on Robert Wrigley: Allowable Error by Ron De Maris

Ron De Maris — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 16:58:05 +0000

The Greatest AntiWar poems of the late 20th century are both by Robert Lowell:”For The Union Dead” (on the Civil War and Boston’s rejection of the heroism of James Gould Shaw when the city protested school busing for blacks and, the greatest protest on Vietnam and its suceeding “little wars”:
“Waking Early Sunday Morning”.Lowell should have won The Nobel Prize on those 2 poems alone.

Comment on Robert Wrigley: Allowable Error by The poetry comes first | Ravenshead Press

The poetry comes first | Ravenshead Press — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 10:56:56 +0000

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Comment on Robert Wrigley: Allowable Error by Graham Clifford

Graham Clifford — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 10:50:40 +0000

I’m struck by many things here. The humility, the bravery to engage, the skill to be able to speak so clearly. And tolerance as a technical term: I have previously fallen in love with building terms like “bellying out” and “making good.”
Thank you.
Graham

Comment on All Poets Bulletin: Help Us Make a Poetry Style Guide by Bill Knott

Bill Knott — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 17:29:59 +0000

had big problems with this when I wanted to do an “ebook” and finally had to hire somebody to format it, and ended up not doing it out of frustration . . . the print problem of long lines is nothing compared to the digital . . . maybe the answer is we should all be writing shorter lines . . . sometimes I think that any line of verse longer than the hendecasyllabic is already verging on being contaminated by prose—

Comment on “Live Like a Poet! At Home in the Bateau Lavoir,” by Rosanna Warren by Midweek Staff Meeting – Montmartre Edition « the coffee philosopher

Midweek Staff Meeting – Montmartre Edition « the coffee philosopher — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:05:27 +0000

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Comment on New Translations of Georg Trakl by bill hunt

bill hunt — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:09:09 +0000

Trakl has in fact been widely influential because of translation and advocacy by Bly and Wright. James Tate said that Trakl had the quality of an “eloquent sedative.”. I was fascinated to find out that Trakl wrote incestuous poems about his sister. Very haunting poems, be sure to look them up.

Comment on All Poets Bulletin: Help Us Make a Poetry Style Guide by Raymond Gibson

Raymond Gibson — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 22:48:11 +0000

The hanging indent seems to work fine for my purposes. However, if a poem is all over the page intentionally, you may consider what was done with a recent translation of Mallarme’s “Un Coup de Des” and scale it down (fonts and all) to fit the pagination. Also, I like what was done with The Complete Poems of Stephen Crane out of Cornell: noting “[no stanza break]” at the bottom of a page. W.S. Merwin’s Second Four Books of Poems irked me with the ambiguity as to stanza and page breaks in that regard.