Frank Bidart

Frank Bidart’s “Golden State”: Resisting the Diachronic Urge

by Brooks Lampe Poetry and Poetics
Thumbnail image for Frank Bidart’s “Golden State”: Resisting the Diachronic Urge

Narrative seems to hold a privileged position in the hierarchy of meaning-making and we have subconsciously absorbed it as an the overarching structure for comprehending reality. So: what to do with the diachronic urge? Do episodic “image narratives” offer a viable alternative?

Innocent Brilliance: James Schuyler’s Other Flowers

by Michael Klein Poetry and Poetics
Thumbnail image for Innocent Brilliance: James Schuyler’s Other Flowers

James Schuyler is back from the dead with the lovely “Other Flowers” a posthumous book of his unpublished, uncollected poems.