Archive for June, 2008
Monday, June 30th, 2008
Prose on Poetry: A Reading Group (of sorts)
Sometimes I take pride in my own ignorance about poetry; other times I feel like a fool. I’ve read millions of poems (and I’m not sure if that’s hyperbole), thousands of books, but I’ve read very little prose on poetry, and my understanding remains intuitive. It’s the poems that are interesting to me, not people [...]
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Thursday, June 26th, 2008
Addendum to the Last Post (Pieces of You)
Turns out the Mets could handle a bad poet after all: David Wright hit two home runs in the first two innings, and Miguel couldn’t get through the third, giving up 8 runs and securing his 10th loss of the season. If only his slider broke with the confidence of his lines… Anyway, I ended [...]
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Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
Celebrity Poets
The way this season is going, the Mets will probably lose tonight to Miguel Batista. A 37-year-old journeyman from the Dominican Republic with a putrid 6.26 ERA, Batista is often casually described as “one of the smartest man in baseball.” Why? Because he’s a published poet! He’s also written a novel, and is working on [...]
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Friday, June 20th, 2008
The Ballad Stuck in My Head
I’ve been reading a lot of formal poetry lately, thanks mostly – and perhaps surprisingly – to the upcoming Cowboy/Western issue. Cowboys love their meter and rhyme. Poetry sprung up 50,000+ years ago as a pneumonic device for people who hadn’t yet invented the ballpoint pen (not to mention the ball itself), and verse became [...]
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Monday, June 16th, 2008
New Blurb – Gregory Orr
Asking for blurbs with your hat in your hand is no fun — it puts the “cap” in capitalism (haha), and forces us to momentarily acknowledge that there’s more to artistry than art. But when your favorite poets read and seem to genuinely like your book, it all becomes worthwhile. I don’t know if anyone [...]
