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On Auden’s “September 1, 1939”: An Exchange with Lawrence Raab [by David Lehman]
<<<October 30, 2001Dear David It was very nice indeed to meet you and hear your poems. I have a quick question. Do I remember correctly your saying that you had received via e-mail a…
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“September 1, 1939” [by W. H. Auden]
Here it is again: September 1, 1939, seventy-eight years later. Can you picture Auden at that "dive" on Fifty-Second Street, (aka Swing Street) on that terrible day when the Germans invaded Poland and quaked…
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“September 1, 1939” [by W. H. Auden]
September 1, 1939 I sit in one of the divesOn Fifty-second StreetUncertain and afraidAs the clever hopes expireOf a low dishonest decade:Waves of anger and fearCirculate over the brightAnd darkened lands of the earth,Obsessing…
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Meet the Press: Canarium Books—A Conversation with Joshua Edwards
Dante Di Stefano: Kenneth Koch, adding to the famous adage by Wallace Stevens, said: “Not only is all poetry experimental, but all that is truly experimental is poetry.” When I think about the work…
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“Lunch Noir” [by Jim Cummins]
He painted an apartment for her once,just to get her off his hands;then he was sayonara, gone. He never heard about the drugs,the nude frolic in a public fountain,the ward. When she escaped,naked under a…
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Paul Taylor, Choreographer 1930-2018 [by Mindy Aloff]
Michael Trusnovec and Laura Halzack in Paul Taylor’s Le Sacre du Printemps (The Rehearsal). Photo: Paul B. Goode Somewhere in a sealed box in a basement is a single copy of a thirty- or…
