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Lyn Hejinian, 1941-2024
From Brian Kim Stefans, Boston Review, December 1, 2001: Memento, in which the protagonist, lacking any ability to create new memories, has to tattoo his body with messages in order to maintain any sense of life’s continuity. Hejinian seems to find pleasure, if not an untapped resource, in the ability to lose one’s direction, as the…
“Lufthansa” by John Tranter [Introduced by Thomas Moody]
“Lufthansa” is one of Tranter’s best and most anthologised poems. The poem is mimetic of one of its early lines: it seems “struck by an acute feeling of precision” which leaves little room for interpretation or “meaning” that extends beyond the surface of its language. Michael Brennan has astutely drawn comparisons between the poem’s “unity,…
Happy Birthday, Ern Malley! [With an introduction by Thomas Moody lifted from David Lehman]
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Reservations | Izzy Noon
In he walks offering his name the same way he would offer me his name at the end of the night, This long night my mother warned me about when I would have to choose between misery and loneliness There was no popping champagne to cap the sordid meal. The post Reservations | Izzy Noon…
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Who’s Who on A. R. Ammons’s “Shit List” [by David Barber]
David Barber from LET ME COUNT THE WAYS: 22 TAKES ON THE POETICS OF LISTS [1] AMMONS, A. R. [Broadside]: Shit List; or, Omnium-gatherum of Diversity into Unity [Winston-Salem, North Carolina]: Privately Printed for Stuart Wright, 1979. Price: $300.00 Unbound. Broadside. Measuring 7” x 16”. A bit of faint creasing else fine. Only 30 copies printed; printed as…