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...reeds with my pens / elation....” Yet although the poet’s fixation on physiognomy is somewhat off-putting, it also serves as a reminder of his basic humanity. The speaker in these poems is not only a craftsman rendering his visions of life into astonishing verse??he is also an elderly man like any other, faced with the concerns that accompany the process of getting older...
...These recursive moments extend throughout the book, resonating with the more formal structure of poetry or music, which so often relies on reiteration and redoubling. The lyricism of the text is ever present, and Christensen’s prowess as an experimental poet, known for her groundbreaking works in verse??in particular “It,” “Alphabet,” and “Butterfly Valley: A Requiem,” all of which have been translated into English in recent years—cannot be forgotten when reading her prose...
Lauterbach will be lecturing tonight at 6 p.m. in the Thompson Room of the Barker Center. Preview her verse??and analysis of what makes bad poetry bad— after the jump...
...assistant in the English department, as “smaller than usual.” Along with the spontaneity of the reading, it fell on the same day that two other major poets gave readings in the area, including John Ashbery at MIT. Armantrout read from “Verse?? and from her most recent compilation, “Next Life,” as well as from unpublished works. Reading with rapidity and inflection, she created images of life characterized by elements of the everyday, mixing symbols of the absolute and of the universal...
...Well-meaning critics may propose that there is no grammatical problem and the new verse??s object is in fact “throng” rather than “jubilee.” If this is true, these critics only have succeeded in crafting a grammatically correct, but awkward sentence as they change “throng” from a verb to a noun. I am not exactly sure what a “jubilee throng” is, jubilee being the adjective apparently, but I am sure they can convolute some meaning into...