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Indie Bookstores: Paris

What would a trip to Paris be without a gentle kiss from Destiny?

Tagged as: Berkeley Books of Paris, Berkley Books, Destiny, Edouard Leve, Frog and Pricess, high modernism, San Francisco Book Company, Shakespeare and Company, Suicide, Sylvia Beach, The Village Voice

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Indie Bookstores: Cambridge and Boston

by Brian Chappell Reviews

The first books I saw when I walked in were Franco Moretti’s two-volume history of the novel. I’m in paradise.

Tagged as: barnes & noble, book marx, boston, Cambridge, Harvard, indie bookstores, MIT, newbury comics, raven used books, revolution books, rodney’s bookstore, the coop, the Harvard bookstore, VHS

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The Solipsist in Purgatory: Jollimore’s AT LAKE SCUCOG

by Micah Towery Philosophy

It’s always a relief to me when I see a book published by somebody outside the “poetry ghetto.”

Tagged as: at lake scugog, Joe Weil, poetry and philosophy, Princeton University Press, purgatory, randall jarrell, Solipsism, tom thomson, troy jollimore, Wallace Stevens

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And I Chose—All: Mary Ruefle

by Colie Hoffman Poetry and Poetics

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.

Tagged as: abstraction, Collie Hoffman, mary ruefle, paul’s fish fry in bennington, Picasso, Pynchon, selected poems, timberland, Vermont, Whitman

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Rimbaud’s Last Revelation

by Alfred Corn Poetry and Poetics

Ashbery’s translation is the best we have in English so far.

Tagged as: A Season in Hell, Alfred Corn, Arthur Rimbaud, ashbery, illuminations, Louise Varèse, Marianne Moore, Paul Schmidt, prose poem, Prose Poetry, Real Toads, Verlaine, Zoroastrian

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The Practice of Poetry

by Gene Tanta Academia

The poetry lesson is that poetry is a practice.

Tagged as: academy, American modernism, Andrei Codrescu, creative writing classes, European Avant-garde, fashionista, Five Faces of Modernity, hipster, ideology, imagination, kitsch, liberal arts, Liberal education, marketing, Matei Calinescu, MFA, Postmodernism, style, The Poetry Lesson, Walter Benjamin

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Lowell’s Bedlam: John McCullough

by John McCullough Poetry and Poetics

All acts of observation are partial and reveal as much about the observer as the observed.

Tagged as: Alfred Corn, Czar Lepke, Daniel Ricken, David Manson, Dick Jaffee, Elizabeth Bishop, Elizabeth Hardwick, Hannah Mercer, Jean Stafford, Lowell’s Bedlam, Lowri Lewis, Memories of West Street and Lepke, Palm Leaves, Robert Lowell, Roger Sansom, Tennyson

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Lowell’s Bedlam: M G Stephens

by M G Stephens Poetry and Poetics

Alfred Corn’s play gives us an inner portrait of Robert Lowell that is not found in either the biography or the poetry itself.

Tagged as: Alfred Corn, bipolar, Confessionalism, Elizabeth Bishop, Elizabeth Hardwick, John McCullough, Leonie Scott-Matthews, Lowell’s Bedlam, M G Stephens, manic depression, Pentameters Theatre, Pitney Akins, Robert Lowell, The Horseshoe

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Tom Sleigh, Anthropologist

by Micah Towery Poetry and Poetics

Formality, in this case, allows Sleigh to achieve a reflexivity and self-awareness without the cloying injections that deliberately remind the reader of the existence of the poet.

Tagged as: Allen Grossman, army cats, ashbery, Beirut Tank, classical, formal, formalism, formality, Hunter College, interview with a ghost, kingsley tufts award, lowell, Mingus Reborn as Mingus, Money, New Yorker, On First Avenue and Sixth Street, protean, proteus, subjects, The Chosen One, The Games, The Sighted Singer, The Spell, Tom Sleigh, tradition

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Hindu Surrealism: George Kalamaras

by Brooks Lampe Poetry and Poetics

The two loves of Kalamaras’s life: Surrealism and Hindu mysticism (with a touch of rhetorical theory!).

Tagged as: Deep Image, Ezra Pound, George Kalamaras, ghazal, Hindu mysticism, Hinduism, ideogram, Ideogrammic, modernism, mystical, Mysticism, Robert Bly, silence, surrealism, The Bone Sutras, Ugly Duckling Presse, Your Own Ox-Head Masks As Proof

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Caleb’s Passing

by Brian Chappell Fiction

The climax of the novel is so mawkish that its downright dismissal of the fraught implications of his “achievement” are extremely troubling.

Tagged as: Argall, assimilation, Bethia Mayfield, Caleb’s Crossing, Cheeshahteamauk, Dixon, Edward P. Jones, feminine identity, Geraldine Brooks, Harvard, Jane Eyre, Mason, Native American, Postmodernism, Pynchon, The Known World, Vollman

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Oyster Perpetual

by levirubeck Poetry and Poetics

When charm works, the connection established between individuals is palpable.

Tagged as: Austin Lagrone, Bonding, Charisma, Gilbert, Levine, Levis, Oyster Perpetual, Tableau with Rockets Redglare

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Indie Bookstores: Paris
What would a trip to Paris be without a gentle kiss from Destiny?
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.
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.”
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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Indie Bookstores: Paris

Indie Bookstores: Cambridge and Boston

The Solipsist in Purgatory: Jollimore’s AT LAKE SCUCOG

And I Chose—All: Mary Ruefle

Rimbaud’s Last Revelation

The Practice of Poetry

Lowell’s Bedlam: John McCullough

Lowell’s Bedlam: M G Stephens

Tom Sleigh, Anthropologist

Hindu Surrealism: George Kalamaras

Caleb’s Passing

Oyster Perpetual

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