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My only method for reading poetry is to follow the trail. Artistic lineages, like linguistic and genetic lineages, are endless. There is an unbroken line of...
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“…to read without joy is stupid.” John Williams (author of Stoner, Butcher’s Crossing and Augustus)
Read MoreHayden Carruth, 1921-2008
Hayden Carruth, 1921-2008 The Last Poem in the World Would I write it if I could? Bet your glitzy ass I would. Â Like many poets my age I first encountered Hayden...
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Mayakovsky led me naturally back to Whitman. I remember well being astonished by Whitman in high school. Here was a man in the mid 19th century who saw it all, saw...
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Wi The Haill Voice  25 poems by Vladimir Mayakovsky translated into Scots with a glossary by Edwin Morgan Carcanet Press 1972  After writing about O’Hara I became...
Read MoreThe Laughing God
The Laughing God Last night Maja and I watched McCain and Obama speak at the Columbia University forum on public service. We responded as predicted, scorning...
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