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Entry 26 — The Doubled World of JoAnne Growney « POETICKS
Looks like an interesting book of poetry... and it's relatively mainstreamish and Bob Grumman likes it...
McSweeney's Internet Tendency: Terrible Poetry Jokes.
You have to be a poetry geek, perhaps, but a few of these made me laugh out loud. The exchange between Whitman and Pound is priceless.
The Prose Poem: An International Journal
All of "The Prose Poem" vol. 8 is available online in the Providence Digital Commons... wish the rest were!
Learning to love poetry again
Most of the comments are pathetic (and some illustrate perfectly why so many people get turned off of it), but I appreciated reading one person's story of coming to care for poetry again. Who cares if his philosophy aligned... poets and poetry-lovers should appreciate someone else joining the fold.
Book Review - 'Wheeling Motel - Poems,' by Franz Wright - Review - NYTimes.com
Troubled childhood, bad brain chemicals, addiction, recovery and death dominate Wright’s work. You couldn’t fake his obsessions, not over a 30-year career so steadily, idiosyncratically productive. His father, James Wright, though a canonical American poet and, like his son, a Pulitzer Prize winner, would probably be less frequently mentioned in reviews of the son’s books if he weren’t so present, as absence, in the son’s poems. Franz Wright is uningratiating, bumptiously witty, inexhaustibly joyless and routinely surprising.
Graham Foust: Resisting Print: Jack Spicer’s Lecturature
'It may be that Gizzi’s edition of Spicer’s lectures is slightly mis-named: These are not simply lectures, but instead are instances of what Dagenais calls “lecturature,” a practice in which “the impetus for producing texts moves from reading and is conditioned by reading”'
Stupid Hope (Jason Shinder)
ISBN:978-1-55597-533-3
One Poet's Notes: Twentieth Century American Poetry Reading List: 100 Plus
Ed Byrne's take on a passel of 20th century poetry worth reading...
Swindle: A Daily Aggregator of Contemporary Poetry
Pulling new poems from various sources every day. Needs RSS!
Baron Wormser.com
Archive of Wormser's poetry, essays, talks, links to books, etc. Good stuff.
Taking poetry to heart
OK, I'll admit I rather liked the idea of taking poems into my mind as one might pluck apples from a tree, a sort of intellectual kleptomania. And because it was conceived of as a race, I guess there was also a tinge of macho competitiveness. And yes, I suppose it did cross my mind that reciting poetry would be a sly way to seduce the ladies.
But those shady motives feel rather redundant now. Six months ago a friend and I drew up a list of our favourite poems and having been going strong ever since. I am half way through, but I'm no longer doing this simply because I want to reach the end point. It's been all about falling in love with poetry again, and discovering it as if for the first time.
PoemTalk
a podcast series featuring contemporary and experimental poetry. Leaning away from mainstream
DC's: Kevin Killian presents ... Jack Spicer (1925-1965)
This is a great piece on Jack Spicer, including some interesting info on his connection to Philip K. Dick. Well worth a few minutes of your time!
Essay - The Case for Memorizing Poetry
The process of memorizing a poem is fairly mechanical at first. You cling to the meter and rhyme scheme (if there is one), declaiming the lines in a sort of sing-songy way without worrying too much about what they mean. But then something organic starts to happen. Mere memorization gives way to performance. You begin to feel the tension between the abstract meter of the poem — the “duh DA duh DA duh DA duh DA duh DA” of iambic pentameter, say — and the rhythms arising from the actual sense of the words. (Part of the genius of Yeats or Pope is the way they intensify meaning by bucking against the meter.) It’s a physical feeling, and it’s a deeply pleasurable one. You can get something like it by reading the poem out loud off the page, but the sensation is far more powerful when the words come from within. (The act of reading tends to spoil physical pleasure.) It’s the difference between sight-reading a Beethoven piano sonata and playing it from memory — doing the latter, you somehow feel you come closer to channeling the composer’s emotions. And with poetry you don’t need a piano.
CPR - Great Expectations: D.A. Powell by Joan Houlihan
Even Powell’s failures are better than most poets’ successes, his flawed poems better than the many hundreds of unflawed poems that live like mayflies for a day then suffer a small death on the page from dullness.
Annie Finch: Listening to Poetry
"Essentially, poetry is distinguished as an art not by its basis in thinking, reading, and understanding—all the processes we use to encounter other kinds of language—but in something both more humble and more refined than any of these: listening to the physical resonance of the words of the poem within the internal space of our own minds."
Answering Carol: An Open Letter from the Margin
had occasion to send a pre-publication version of The Worcester Review article [on slam poetry] to Donald Hall and he wrote back to disagree with virtually every assertion I had made. That was the beginning of what to me has been a fascinating correspondence.
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