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NarcissusWorks (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
Announcing Jacket 38 -- Late 2009: http://jacketmagazine.com/38/index.shtml Jonathan Williams -- Niedecker -- H.D. -- Blaser -- Dorn -- Geoffrey Hill -- Bei Dao A free internet literary magazine -- Interviews -- Reviews -- Articles -- Poems Editor: John Tranter :::::: Associate Editor: Pam Brown Writers previously published in Jacket (only) may submit material. We only have time to read for Jacket...
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The Wooden Spoon (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
“A Congealed Nebulosity” a review by Nigel Beale Reading Geoffrey Hill’s Collected Critical Writings feels a lot like what it might to step into a graduate seminar in 19th and 20th century poetry without having taken the prerequisite courses, or completed the required reading. It will not be immediately understood by “a common well-educated, thoughtful man of ordinary talents;”...
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The Wooden Spoon (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Friends! Americans! Readers! Lend me your screens — The Critical Flame is proud to announce the publication of Issue #4, Nov / Dec , our last of the year. Within its digital pages, you'll find Quarterly Conversation editor Scott Esposito reviewing Evelio Rosero's new novel The Armies , winner of The Independent's Foreign Fiction award in 2009; eminent broadcaster and journalist Nigel Beale reviews...
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Anecdotal Evidence (Free subscription) | 10/05/2009
“The three qualities I admire in the poetry I like best are: Accuracy, Spontaneity, Mystery .” Alice Quinn, the editor of Elizabeth Bishop’s Edgar Allan Poe & the Juke Box: Uncollected Poems, Drafts, and Fragments , tells us the poet wrote this in the late fifties or early sixties, in a notebook entry that begins “Writing poetry is an unnatural act. It takes great skill...
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Anecdotal Evidence (Free subscription) | 09/25/2009
“France lay very much in our path, our path to almost everything that could beckon us forth from our base – and there were very few things in the world or places on the globe that didn’t beckon us; according to which she helped us along on our expansive course a good deal more, doubtless, than either she or we always knew.” So wrote Henry James in 1915, less than a year before...
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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...
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Culture Industry (Free subscription) | 09/09/2009
Interviewer : What is the role of the poet in our world? Geoffrey Hill : He has none. In London, when a taxi driver who loves to talk with his passengers, asks me what I do, I tell him I am a retired university professor. It is best to leave that I am a poet to the last. The driver would collapse with total laughter while driving and that would be dangerous. The great poet has no social function. The...
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Ivebeenreadinglately (Free subscription) | 09/09/2009
Issue 17 of the Quarterly Conversation has just gone up, and it's full of good stuff. I already mentioned Jordan Anderson's piece on two I've Been Reading Lately favorites, Proust and Javiar Marias, a few days ago when I was proofreading it; if, like me, you're breathlessly anticipating November's English-language publication of the final volume of Marias's trilogy Your Face Tomorrow , Anderson's piece...
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Books, Inq. (Free subscription) | 09/07/2009
... of our age. Patrick Kurp reviews Selected Poems by Geoffrey Hill . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) How odd to think that Hill, the bane of postmodern poets and critics, may be the most “avant-garde” poet working today. He pushes the resources of English—etymology, music, multiplicity of meaning, rhetorical devices—further than other writers dare. His poems can be as densely allusive,...
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The Wooden Spoon (Free subscription) | 08/10/2009
Last week I was on vacation in Georgia, on Saint Simon's Island, about an hour south of Savannah. The parents of TBG rented a house there, very large and very close to the beach, and it was extremely generous of them to invite me along with their family. Somehow — amid all the guitar playing, feasting & libation, sailing, walks on the beach, sunburns, driving to and fro, arguments or fights...
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Christian Science Monitor (Free subscription) | 06/18/2009
Today is the birthday of Geoffrey Hill, one of the most rewarding and one of the most difficult of poets. Born in 1932, his lineage is long, traceable ultimately to Bede the Venerable, whose engagement with history, unity, and the mystical embodiments of landscape Hill shares. His poetry concerns the ...
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