The Kenyon Review excitedly notes two publications by Carl Djerassi, famed chemist, playwright, novelist and man of letters. In March of 2012, Haymon-Verlag released a bilingual edition of Djerassi’s poetry collection Ein Tagebuch des Grolls/A Diary of Pique 1983-1984. In…
Two Recent Publications by Carl Djerassi
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May 16, 2012
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Toward New Pasts and Old Futures: an interview with Linda Norton
Andrew David King
May 15, 2012
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So-called “alternative” poetics always end up construed as self-conscious investigations into what it means for poems to be poems. This is an important question—one not asked nearly enough—though it need not be the only question such a book can pose.…
The Reconquest of the Long Form
Amit Majmudar
May 13, 2012
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There are, by my count, only two things that can save a long poem in English. Heterogeneity (Eliot and Pound; and those polyphonic, formally quite various sustained dramatic poems of Shakespeare) and/or Rhyme (Chaucer, Golding’s Ovid, Chapman’s Homer, Marlowe’s Hero…
Writing nature: On Melanie Rae Thon’s “The Voice of the River”
Hilary Plum
May 12, 2012
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In a recent interview, novelist Lance Olsen describes one of the endeavors of his just-released Architectures of Possibility: After Innovative Writing: I spend one chapter talking about how conventional notions of characterization are essentially Freudian in nature in that they…
Victor Hugo and the Two Tolstoys
Amit Majmudar
May 10, 2012
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One of the keys to Tolstoy is his early admiration of Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables. The young Tolstoy visited Hugo during a trip to Europe; the young Russian Count read and admired Les Miserables before he wrote War and Peace. This…
