san antonio
Neat piece about me in the San Antonio News-Express. I’ll be there soon.
Work about poetry read online and enjoyed, just in the last few days: Helen Vendler makes a case for Simon Armitage in the New Republic; David Orr mulls “greatness” in the NYTBR; Camille Dungy, blogging at the Poetry Foundation, promotes Cal Bedient’s journal Lana Turner, which has not (whatever O’Hara said) collapsed: if you order the journal (and I think you might) you’ll find a stellar, scary, essay on Jonathan Richman and the global financial collapse by Joshua Clover, which many people are talking about, and a very good long poem in versets (lines of verse so long they are almost units of prose) by Juliana Spahr, which no one I know is talking about… yet.
By the way, what are your favorite recent books of prose poems (books of nothing but, or almost nothing but, prose poems)? I may have enough such books to start writing an essay (Waldrep, Brian Johnson, Stonecipher, Allison Benis White). And here’s a journal that publishes nothing else.
jenn lewin wrote:
do translations count? also Rosanna Warren has a series of lovely prose poems in a recent APR, which I’ve saved; Steve Monte will have more suggestions than I can offer…
Posted on 24-Feb-09 at 1:57 am | Permalink
Jennifer Clarvoe wrote:
I’d put in a plug for Colette Labouff Atkinson’s new book, Mean (from the University of Chicago).
Posted on 24-Feb-09 at 6:08 pm | Permalink
John Madera wrote:
Book of prose poems?
Consider JUICE by Renee Gladman and Anne Carson’s AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF RED.
Posted on 06-Mar-09 at 1:00 pm | Permalink