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Dave Bonta’s utilitarian odes – Rachel Barenblat
Dave Bonta is prolix. He posts a lot of poems to his blog, Via Negativa. (Here's one from this week: October dusk.) He also podcasts. And he's author of the recently-published Odes to Tools…
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Don Draper Fan Club Rankings [by Jane Mahlzeit]
Jane Mahlzeit of Duke University has released the unofficial tally of Don Draper Fan Club members ranking the ladies with whom Don has enjoyed conjugal relations in descending order of fugworthiness: MeganRachel Menkin the…
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GREIL MARCUS AND DYLAN (by Lawrence J. Epstein)
What is this gold? This is Bob Dylan by Greil Marcus Writings 1968-2010 (PublicAffairs), a just-published treasure trove of the author's indispensable riffs on America's enigmatic musical legend. As the most interesting writer about…
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Motherhood poems – Rachel Barenblat
The first poems I read after my son was born were by Heid E. Erdrich (sister to the novelist Louise.) My friend Tisha Turk (author of Getting Out Alive) sent me a copy of…
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Latino Poets Stake their Claim in American Letters [by Emma Trelles]
There is always a destination, by Miami-based painter John Sanchez. In Handling Destiny, his third book of poems, Adrian Castro examines the Yoruba idea that the course of a life is pre-determined, and only through faith is…
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Obsessions – Rachel Barenblat
Hello all! It's good to be back. This week you'll be getting a grab-bag of posts about some of my current obsessions — some poems and poets among them. Of course, any list of…
