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Poetry Is Not a Project!

All the People of the Universe (An interview with Dorothea Lasky)

by Ben Fama April 16, 2010 Dorothea Lasky

(To sum up our tryptych of posts for Dorothea Lasky, I present a brief and delicious interview) It seems like some of the best writing that’s happening right now is coming out of the Amherst/ Northampton area. I’m thinking of Natalie Lyalin, Heather Christle, Emily Pettit. Matthew Zapruder went to school there. So did you. [...]

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Some Sort of Truth: Dorothea Lasky’s BLACK LIFE Hurts Like Joy

by Lonely Christopher April 15, 2010 Dorothea Lasky

Dorothea Lasky is a poet of petulant grace. The particular way she does is she carves into the alphabet for poetry’s hurtfully buried, metastasized epiphanies of black life. Thence comes the fragments of jagged wonder she strings together to decorate her verse with pretty conflict. Her wonder (love and awe) is heavy and plain, stilted [...]

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Dorothea Lasky’s POETRY IS NOT A PROJECT or Cutting More Lines in the Cosmic Divide

by Ben Fama April 13, 2010 Art

Dorothea Lasky’s made huge waves when debuted at this years AWP. The newest book on ‘s Dossier imprint, Lasky lays out, in 19 quick pages, a theory of poetry that reaches back through High Romanticism into a more hermetic time. Illustrated beautiful throughout by , Lasky’s theory pushes against the limits set out by conceptual [...]

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Do You Know This Beautiful Book?

by Ben Fama April 6, 2010 Poetry Is Not a Project!

See more about Dottie Lasky’s POETRY IS NOT A PROJECT Get it at while the ink is still wet. Available at the UDP portion of the “table X publishing commune.” Related Posts Book Review: Map of the Folded World (John Gallaher)

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Reciting your own poems from memory is for supernerds, or the worst project of my life

by Ben Fama March 30, 2010 Aesthetics

<> Concerning all the recent discussions about memory, recitation, etc, I thought I would try it in my own way. I should disclose that I never recite my own poems from memory at readings. I think it is corny, weird, it makes me uncomfortable, and frankly, to spend that much time memorizing your own work [...]

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