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Poetry Hut Blog (Free subscription) | 10/05/2009
— Lewis Turco: Odd and Invented Forms — *** — Fifteen-minute poetry theater: Wallace Stevens seduced by conflict — *** — Bei Dao’s interaction with Clayton Eshleman and his wife Caryl begins in 1992, when Eliot Weinberger wrote to ask if he would nominate Bei Dao for the semester-long MacAndless Chair in the Humanities at Eastern Michigan University — *** —...
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Bernadette Geyer (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
I was a little disappointed with the poetry selection at the American Association of Univ. Women Book Sale at the McLean Community Center this year. Not to mention having to go through both the Literature and Fiction sections (what's the diff? who knows...) because poetry was lumped into both categories. In past years, book sales were dangerous places for me. But my time is limited now, so I have become...
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Poetry & Poets in Rags (Free subscription) | 09/08/2009
for Lucas [Klein], is to supplant, or replace, earlier translations. Rather, since each translation enacts its own reading, these translations present an alternative to Hinton’s vision, and to his performance of that vision. As their long history with Bei Dao can attest, Clayton and Lucas see manifold meanings in Bei Dao’s writing, and believe that he deserves to be read as often, and as...