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Print This PostPoetry Fix Episode 9: Seamus Heaney’s “Digging.”
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Christopher Robinson is a writer, teacher and translator living in Port Townsend, Washington. He earned his MA in poetry from Boston University, and his MFA from Hunter College where he taught creative writing. Aside from teaching, he works as a research assistant for Mary Karr. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Kenyon Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Night Train, Chiron Review, FlatmanCrooked, and McSweeney's Online. His agent is currently shopping his first novel.
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Indie Bookstores: Cambridge and Boston
The first books I saw when I walked in were Franco Moretti’s two-volume history of the novel. I’m in paradise.
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The Solipsist in Purgatory: Jollimore’s AT LAKE SCUCOG
It’s always a relief to me when I see a book published by somebody outside the “poetry ghetto.”
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And I Chose—All: Mary Ruefle
Picasso wrote this well before Mary Ruefle started publishing books, but if his words could be an egg, Ruefle’s Selected Poems would hatch right out of it.
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Rimbaud’s Last Revelation
Ashbery’s translation is the best we have in English so far.