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On Poetry and Loss

by Joe Weil April 27, 2011 Memoir
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The handling of such overwhelming material is first and last, a question of form. Grief, loss, outrage, must be made portable.

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Some Notes on Translations of Horace

by Micah Towery February 7, 2011 Poetry and Poetics
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If you are a poet writing in English, you carry Horace in your own voice.

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It’s [nearly] a summer day

by Zachary Pace April 15, 2010 Poetry and Poetics
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So we are taking off our masks, are we, and keeping
our mouths shut? as if we’d been pierced by a glance!

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Frank O’Hara’s “To The Poem”

by Ben Pease March 23, 2010 Art
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Paparazzi

by Adam Fitzgerald March 20, 2010 The Other

“When we define the Photograph as a motionless image, this does not mean only that the figures it represents do not move; it means that they do not emerge, do not leave: they are anesthetized and fastened down, like butterflies.”

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more correspondence

by Zachary Pace February 11, 2010 Art
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I want to begin praising If There is Something to Desire by Vera Pavlova, translated by Steven Seymour (her husband, her muse! how romantic, how intrinsic!) released last month from Knopf, her first collection published in English. These one hundred poems go so far so terrifically fast (almost all under ten lines) that Pavlova seems [...]

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