"An Interview with Alice Notley"
"At once mobile and highly formally attentive, Notley’s poems synthesize a wide range of poetic tradition(s) while sounding like no one else. Over the course of her career, comprising, at present, over 40 books, Notley has written work ranging from tiny New York School style occasional poems to epic work on the scale of Dante’s Inferno, as in her most recent book, The Speak Angel Series (Fonograf Editions, 2023)."
via POETRY SOCIETY OF AMERICA |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Keene Carter on David Ferry's The Odes of Horace
"The genius for a simple clarity is what makes all of Ferry’s Horace and Virgil so commendable, and his verse is proof as well that 'simple clarity' is not 'economy,' nor less and stranger language. That he adds a word or removes a god is hardly worth attacking when the former makes for grace and the latter is a name we neither cared about nor said correctly. Instead, like the King James translators, he understands that another language is another material, and one cannot build a wooden house from marble. The attempt will last forever." |
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