baithak (Free subscription) | 11/02/2008
A poet should never fall in love with another poet — love is already too much like gambling on oil futures. Two poets in love must succumb to the same folie à deux as the actor and the actress, the magician and the fellow magician, because each knows already the flaws beneath the greasepaint, the pigeons hidden in top hats, all the pockmarked truth beneath illusion. Real lovers, Shakespeare long ago...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 11/16/2008
Just a quick note to mark the occasion of my being moved to write to you out of dumbstruck admiration instead of righteous indignation for the first time in ages. William Logan’s review of “Words in Air” (Nov. 2) is a marvel. “Sometimes falling in love is as much an act of criticism as criticism is an act of love,” indeed!James WallingVancouver, Wash.•William Logan analyzes...
Maud Newton (Free subscription) | 11/11/2008
... unfolded before me.* Levi’s detailed imaginings put me in mind of Carrie Frye’s recent post on William Logan, Hart Crane, and the role of fact and fantasy in biography — and in writing characters generally. Anticipating a sleepless flight back to Chicago from the Barbara Pym conference in London, I had packed the second volume of Anthony Powell’s A Dance to the Music of Time ; re-reading...
Books, Inq. (Free subscription) | 11/02/2008
The Complete Correspondence Between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell . "Sometimes falling in love is as much an act of criticism as criticism is an act of love." — William Logan
News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 10/25/2008
A MAN made it easy for police to catch him with cocaine at a music festival – by walking around with white powder on his nose.
Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 10/25/2008
A MAN made it easy for police to catch him with cocaine at a music festival – by walking around with white powder on his nose.
About Last Night (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
In the October issue of Poetry, William Logan writes about the responses he received to his review of Hart Crane's...
Books, Inq. (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
William Logan responds to his criticism's critics; and, well, eats a little crow in the bow :) I love Crane unconditionally; he's a bridge to somewhere transporting; however, I can't help but think Wyndham Lewis would have captured his essence much more heart-breakingly than the illustrative portrait (which is fine, such as it is) accompanying this Poetry Foundation feature.
Poetry Hut Blog (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
Poetry News: So while I’ve been out Hayden Carruth died, the fake anthology was published (which I think is funny - the Rod McKuen is a nice touch) and the Nobel Committee said American writers are unworthy …. — Exclusive Preview: Bob Dylan’s ‘Tell Tale Signs’ — — Picasso’s interest in poetry comes as no surprise to [...]
