Sunday, May 06, 2007

Saluting Jack Gilbert

A note on Jack
with some of my favorite
poems of his

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The newspaper book review:
a thing of the past?

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The third
New York Times piece
on Martin Duberman’s
bio of
Lincoln Kirstein
in ten days

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Google Books:
What’s not to like?

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Robert Chrysler
needs us
to watch his back

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Your style
is your brand

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Creative writing classes
& depictions of violence

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The scroll
arrives
in Santa Fe

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Indie bookstores:
hanging on

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As go books
so go CDs?

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New hope
for the
School of Quietude

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A portrait of
Frederick Seidel

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A portrait of
Al Young

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Mitt Romney’s favorite author?
L. Ron Hubbard

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Stephen Harper’s favorite book?
The Guinness Book of Records

Quick, Americans:
who is Stephen Harper?

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Reading Danish poet
Niels Hav
in
Morocco

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The beat
of the Nuyorican Poets

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Laureate at work

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The Poet Laureate
of Montgomery County, PA

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A poetry reading
in 30 languages
in
Eau Claire

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Ban the book,
invite the author

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Once on the Whitbread short list,
he’s turned self-publisher
of his poems

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Book club
bitchiness

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First prize:
concentration of clichés
in the service of
National Poetry Month

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Poetry news
from the Twin Cities

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Bob Dylan
scares children

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SAM I am:
The new
Seattle Art Museum
is a hit

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An anthology
of Iranian
women’s poetry

from the Middle Ages
to the present

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They write you up,
your mum & dad

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The eye
of Ryan McGinley

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The Male Gaze

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Blatherum Infinitum

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Recent responses
to poems from
The Age of Huts:

Pearl Pirie
on
The Chinese Notebook

Luminita Suse
on
Sunset Debris

& Jack Kimball
is reading
(more likely rereading)
L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E

Plus
I’ve turned up
in at least two dreams
at the
Annandale Dream Journal