Carol Peters (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
[from C. P. Cavafy 's The Unfinished Poems , translated by Daniel Mendelsohn , Alfred A. Knopf , 2009] Antiochus the Cyzicene The people of Syria put up with him: as long as someone stronger doesn't come along. And what is "Syria"? It barely comes to half; what with the little kingdoms, with John Hyrcanus, with the cities that are declaring their independence. It seems the realm once began,...
] Outside the Lines [ (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
GANYMEDE POETS, ONE First annual anthology of all 38 poets published in the first six issues of the gay men¹s quarterly GANYMEDE 172 pages, 6x9² perfect-bound paperback book, illustrated throughout with thematic photos Purchase link, details, sample pages: http://ganymedepoets.blogspot. com/ "...an innovative, nearly overwhelming new player among poetry anthologies."-- AssociatedContent.com...
DWx (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Gene Damm has been around the poetry scene here in Albany as long as I remember, in fact I remember him as a fellow student at SUNY-Albany (as it was called back then) in the late 1960s. He has now published a book of his poems, Guanyin and other poems (The Troy Book Makers, 2009). Recently he did a reading/book-signing at the Book House in Stuyvesant Plaza to promote it. He has gathered together about...
Notable Books (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
PW Top 10 Cheever: A Life by Blake Bailey Await Your Reply by Dan Chaon A Fiery Peace in a Cold War: Bernard Schriever and the Ultimate Weapon by Neil Sheehan In Other Rooms, Other Wonders by Daniyal Mueenuddin Big Machine by Victor LaValle The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science by Richard Holmes Stitches by David Small Shop Class as Soulcraft by...
Third Factory/Notes to Poetry (Free subscription) | 09/17/2009
C.P. Cavafy, trans. Daniel Mendelsohn | Collected Poems | Knopf | 2009 Edmund and Jules de Goncourt, trans. Robert Baldick | Pages from the Goncourt Journals | New York Review | 2006 Fanny Howe | The Winter Sun | Graywolf | 2009 Devin Johnston | Creaturely and Other Essays | Turtle Hill | 2009 Devin Johnston | Sources | [...]
The Wooden Spoon (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
I really can't say enough complimentary things about George Kalogeris' essay in The Critical Flame on the power, style, and beauty of C.P. Cavafy's poetry (and, claro que sí , of Mendalstam's translation thereof): 'Medelsohn’s translation of the final phrase of the last line [of the poem "Caesarion"] is a provocative one. In nearly every version of which I am aware, translators...
The Wooden Spoon (Free subscription) | 09/09/2009
Ladies and Gentlemen, the editors of The Critical Flame are proud to present Issue 3. In it, publishing guru and former Soft Skull publisher Richard Nash considers the future of print in his review of Ted Striphas' The Late Age of Print ; poet and translator George Kalogeris turns his brilliant critical eye towards the new Collected Poems of C.P. Cavafy ; and emerging critic Andrew Seal tries to make...
Silliman's Blog (Free subscription) | 07/21/2009
Reading Rachel Loden’s “Affidavit” § The Normal and Adventitious Danger Periods For Pulmonary Disease in Children by William Carlos Williams (1913) § A video of d.a. levy reading § Amazon pulls a 1984 on 1984 on everybody’s Kindle Promises not to do it again Raising prices on ebooks invites piracy Meanwhile, a class-action suit over Kindle “cracks”...
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