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Eileen Myles’s Cool for You: An American Classic (Terence Winch)
A few days ago, I wrote about the Irish-American reading at St. Mark’s Church in Manhattan in 1982, focusing on the work of the great Ted Berrigan. One of the other readers that evening…
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Because it is bitter, and because it is my heart . . .
This news item from the LA Times crossed our desks. Apparently some psychiatrists are proposing to identify bitterness as a mental illness. One of them defines bitterness as anger plus hopelessness and explains that…
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“MS” [by Berwyn Moore]
MS for David Lehman MS stood for Mary Shelley, or magnetic storm, for mackerel sky in Mississippi, or malfeasance at Microsoft. The mother ship sank. Mother Superior scoffed. The mystery shopper slunk among suede…
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Un autre truc
Much beloved Bleaders, Like Victor Frankenstein, before he made his big fellow, I was in the wrong century by several. My first introductions to what living poets were, occurred when they translated the long…
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Geoff Young: Style, Insight, and Durability (Terence Winch)
Let us now praise Geoff Young. In particular, the poems in Lights Out, which I think of as one of the necessary books of our time. In Geoff’s work, all kinds of pleasures…
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Desert Island Disks (from the Poetry Society of America)
The Poetry Society of America has initiated a series of "desert island disks." Poets are asked to name the five record albums or sets they would take with them to the proverbial desert isle.…
