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Nor fair, nor rich– a bleg

Oren Izenberg — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:39:25 +0000

I am soon going to be part of a conversation about poetry, poetry scholarship and the question of fair use. The conversation is not entirely theoretical– which is to say it is aimed less at thinking through the conceptual gamesmanship…

Friday Reading: Selling A Lume Spento

Robert P. Baird — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:09:46 +0000

From K.K.Ruthven’s Ezra Pound as Literary Critic: What were really needed to launch A Lume Spento properly were ghosted reviews: “I shall write a few myself,” he told his mother, perhaps recalling that Walt Whitman had written favorable reviews of his own…

new issue of chicago review (55:1)

Joshua Adams — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:00:54 +0000

*** CHICAGO REVIEW is pleased to announce the publication of issue 55:1: SEVEN POETS FROM BERLIN, edited and introduced by Christian Hawkey. Featuring: POEMS by Daniel Falb, Monika Rinck, Hendrik Jackson, Uljana Wolf, Steffen Popp, Sabine Scho, and Ron Winkler & TRANSLATIONS by Christian...

Why Don’t Preening Brooklyn Novelists Ever Write Books About This?

Robert P. Baird — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:33:52 +0000

From today’s Times: Some experts say that emissions from airline travel are simply so large that it may be impossible to offset them. “Buying offsets is a nice idea, just like giving money to a soup kitchen is a nice idea, but…

A Lume Spento

Robert P. Baird — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:00:29 +0000

The original plan was to call the book La Fraisne (”The Ash Tree”) after the title of the first poem, and dedicate it to H.D. Shortly before Pound sent the book to his Venetian printer, however, he learned that his friend…

Ask Knott What Poetry Can Do for You

Michael Robbins — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:55:55 +0000

Bill Knott is a cross between Yorick & Radiohead. Quite chopfallen, he once was full of japes & gambols. His last “official” book was published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux, but he now prefers to self-publish his sonnets & sell…

Top-Selling Twelve Books in Poetry Criticism, 2059

Kent Johnson — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:02:44 +0000

The Ducati and the Tricorn: Coded Syllabics in Frederick Seidel’s Late Love Poems to Marianne Moore [George Van Waters] Machiavellian Democracy: The Secret History of Steve Evans’s Attention Span [Emma Lazarus] A Dacha for Everyone: Poetry Magazine, Cultural Corporatism, and the End…

a message from pretty: on laurel nakadate

Anahid Nersessian — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:00:51 +0000

Artist’s talks—up for review, like a gallery show or spread in Artforum? A few nights ago I saw photographer, video artist, and filmmaker Laurel Nakadate give a presentation on her work at SAIC, and it was one hell of a mindspin. As…

Guest Post: Henry Gould on Unjustly Neglected Ph.D. Monographs and the American Sublime

Robert P. Baird — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 13:00:37 +0000

[Ed. Note: A little more than a month ago I passed around the proverbial hat to support the work that goes on here at Digital Emunction. The first person to respond with actual legal tender was frequent commenter Henry Gould. When…

“I refer to largesse in thought”

Michael Robbins — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 06:11:31 +0000

Books. A year. Best books of the year. A mug, a game. Benjamin Schwarz predictably plumps for biographies & Alice Munro, while Amazon readers appear to be, in Adam Smith’s words, “as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human…