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by John Hartley Williams from Poetry Wales (Gefunden auf den Seiten von Poetry Daily) In England today few poets are as popular as Dylan Thomas – his magical poems have corrupted a whole generation of English poets; yet he is surely one of the… Continue Reading „Dylan Lives!“
Aus der Fülle ihres Archivs präsentierte die New York Review of Books im November einen Geleitartikel (aus ihrer ersten Ausgabe von 1963) und zwei Briefe von Robert Lowell. / 6.11.03
and the music curls and drums, races and swells to meet the sharpness of his reportorial eye, the spring of his rhymes. „He has sent a voltage around a generation,“ said Seamus Heaney this past summer, admiring him for his „verbal energy“ and for… Continue Reading „Eminem is a berserker“
The sestina, an intricate verse form created and mastered by the Provençal poets, is a 39-line poem consisting of six six-line stanzas and one three-line envoi (or „send-off“). The six end-words are repeated in a prescribed order, as end words in each of the… Continue Reading „Amerikanische Sestine“
In the beginning there was Beat. Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, Allen Ginsberg’s Howl, William Burroughs’s Naked Lunch. Here were writers who took the same words everyone else had at the time and used them in new ways, much like the bebop jazz players… Continue Reading „Am Anfang war der Schlag“
. ..frei: „Blindly punchin‘ at the blind / breathin‘ heavy / stutterin‘ / an‘ blowin‘ up/ where t‘ go / what is it that’s exactly wrong / who t‘ picket? / who t‘ fight. Auf deutsch heißt das dann: „Ich tapp ne fremde Straße… Continue Reading „Biermann übersetzt Dylan“
The portrait that emerges is that of a selfish artist who „lived for poetry, with single-mindedness of the sort he had long ago discerned in W. B. Yeats, the first poet who ever seized his imagination.“ Together, he wrote in a letter quoted in… Continue Reading „Plath/ Hughes: Kreative Hochzeit“
In seiner Reihe „Poet’s Choice“stellt Edward Hirsch eine Villanelle von Jennifer Grotz vor. / The Washington Post 12.10.03
Hier zwei Auszüge aus dem Essay If: On Transit, Transcendence, and Trope von David Baker, aus: The Gettysburg Review (gefunden bei Poetry Daily) Genres, so the argument goes, are sentimental and artificial distinctions, as false as a sense of self is to a person.… Continue Reading „Transit, Transzendenz und Tropen“
We’re celebrating the 115th anniversary of T.S. Eliot’s birth by revisiting James Wood’s eloquent defense of the poet against charges of anti-Semitism, first published in TNR in 1996… / schreibt The New Republic 23.9.03
Michael Collier (poet laureate in Maryland) kommentiert in The Baltimore Sun vom 21.9.03 das Gedicht „Eternity“ von Hart Crane über einen Hurrikan von 1926. Hier der Anfang des Gedichts: September – remember! October – all over. Barbarian Adage After it was over, though still… Continue Reading „Eternity“
The Habimah National Theater of Israel is visiting the United States for the first time in 40 years, with a four-day run (it ends tomorrow) at Symphony Space. It brings theatrical intelligence and moments of real power to „Kaddish L’Naomi,“ its staging of Allen… Continue Reading „Ginsbergs „Kaddish“ im Theater“
Tochter der Dichterin Sylvia Plath, protestiert mit einem Gedicht gegen die Verfilmung des Lebens ihrer Mutter, berichtet die Netzeitung. / 17.9.03
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