Essay: "English verse is not the same after Donne. Harmony and gentility go out the window."
(The Atlantic)
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https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/09/john-donne-poetry-super-infinite-book/670605/
Conversation: "Romantic poets model for us, or at least for me, the possibility of rigorous, difficult hope..."—Maureen N. McLane
(McSweeney's)
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https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/maureen-n-mclane
Essay: "My primary aesthetic principle, I once told a therapist, is absence."—D.S. Waldman
(LitHub)
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https://lithub.com/a-poetics-of-failure-on-the-truths-that-lie-between-words/
Interview: "How do we face the world and also love the world? That’s one of the questions of my life, maybe."—Ada Limón
(The Rumpus)
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https://therumpus.net/2022/06/06/resurrection-on-a-daily-basis-exploring-the-hurting-kind-with-ada-limon/
Review: "Woe unto the poet who is overpraised in his lifetime."
(The New York Times)
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https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/12/books/review/robert-lowell-memoirs.html
Essay: "Poems have the potential to tailor, fine-tune, and pattern passion into form."
(LitHub)
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https://lithub.com/chris-martin-on-poetry-autism-and-the-joy-of-working-with-neurodiverse-writers/
Report: "Last September, Milkweed Editions... offered Revilla a book deal after she topped more than 1,600 other poets in the 2021 National Poetry Series open competition."
(UH News)
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https://www.hawaii.edu/news/2022/08/10/poet-professor-published-book/
Review: "The poems in Winter Recipes desire nothing except to shed desire, to strip down to some crystalline still point."
(The Rumpus)
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https://therumpus.net/2022/07/12/the-last-book-of-poems-i-loved-louise-glucks-winter-recipes-from-the-collective/
Obituary: "James Longenbach... whose prolific writings on poetry... helped keep the art form in the public eye and explained its complexities to the masses, died July 29..."
(Rochester City Newspaper)
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https://www.rochestercitynewspaper.com/rochester/james-longenbach-university-of-rochester-professor-who-wrote-about-poetry-for-the-masses-dies-at-62/Content?oid=14951298
Essay: "...Miłosz is also a poet of the miraculous, a poet of wonder, a poet of doubt, and perhaps the best poet of old age we’ve had since Whitman."
(LARB)
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https://lareviewofbooks.org/entitled-opinions/czeslaw-milosz-a-california-life/?mc_cid=56d2b4e361&mc_eid=09c1b0af6d
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