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The Conservatism of Poetry — Brad Leithauser
"Make it new!" Ezra Pound urges, leaning imposingly toward you, and you nod knowingly back at him. But the two of you are sitting in a packed bar in the East Village at Happy…
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The Trouble Clef: You are not even here [by Lera Auerbach]
One of my findings this week, while unearthing treasures buried deep in the oceans of my ignorance, was a short poem of John Ashbery. This Room The room I entered was a…
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Kurosawa’s “Ikiru” [by David Lehman]
Under the influence of Lew Saul's heroic blogging on Kurosawa, I took in Ikiru at the Film Forum yesterday. The movie's a masterpiece. The predicament of the protagonist — a career civil servant with…
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XII. The 30 Films of Akira Kurosawa: Yoidore Tenshi (Drunken Angel) [1948] (by Lewis Saul)
Ed note: For the next several weeks, composer and film aficionado Lewis Saul has agreed to supply us with in-depth commentary about the films of Akira Kurosawa, now showing in an extended festival at…
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Poetic Tip of the Day –>>
Test Drive the 800 Pound Elephant! "The 800 pound gorilla" and "the elephant in the room" are tired old businessmetaphors. Substitute the 800 pound elephant and watch what happens! Use the 800…
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Acceleration and Poetry [by Brad Leithauser]
{Today's topic is acceleration. For a schedule of my week's blogs, please go to the first of them–Jan 17.} In college I took a year-long survey of British literature in which I probably learned…
