The favorite artist
of British artists
ever
§
And the top rated
woman artist
§
Brice Marden
at length
in the New York Review of Books
§
Peter Schjeldahl
on
Kiki Smith
§
Designating a painting
historic
§
Mel Bochner
on
The Joys of Yiddish
§
An “auto-bug-offery”
by James Laughlin
§
Plagiarists of the past
alas
§
Yet another poem
entirely in questions,
this time
by Galway Kinnell
§
“Whitman’s exactly the right patron
for a poet like Kinnell”
(one more attempt
to make an SoQ
interesting
by placing him
into an avant lineage)
§
Hooking up
thru the
London Review of Books
§
Why Melville matters
even if he’s still not popular
§
A second
New York Times
review of
Against the Day,
this one positive
§
“The biggest surprise,
not counting the space devoted to
white slavery, Tamerlane's tomb
and Jonah and the whale,
is an astonishing excess of
ukuleles.”
John Leonard on
Against the Day
in The Nation
§
There are exactly
four books of poetry
among this year’s
New York Times
”100 Notable Books”
list, by
Louise Glück,
Allen Ginsberg,
Galway Kinnell
&
Ishmael Reed
(Glück,
who is 63,
is the “baby”
in this quartet)
§
“The pen is edgier than the blade”:
a poet-in-residence
for a cricket tour
§
UbuWeb
has converted all
of its rare and out-of-print
film & video holdings
to on-demand streaming formats
a la YouTube,
which means that you
can view everything
right in your browser
without platform-specific software
or insanely
huge
downloads
(There are still some exceptions,
such as Frank Mouris’
Frank Film,
still my favorite instance
of film as poetry)
§
The subtitle of this review
of Ginsberg’s biography
describes him only
as the
”Poet who wrote ‘Howl’”
§
The trouble with Ted
§
Andrew Motion
on being laureate
§
The poet laureate
of Brownsburg,
§
A new story
by
Eugene O’Neill
§
That low-fi sci-fi
trading as “speculative poetry”
§
A test of translation
concerning
Fagle’s Aeneid
§
A little piece
on
Creeley’s Collected
(with Zukofsky
spelled with an ‘S')
§
John Timpane
on all the new books
concerning
Allen Ginsberg
