What Sparks Poetry:
James Longenbach on Sir Thomas Wyatt’s “They Flee From Me”
"I’ve never much cared if a poem is metered or not, rhymed or not, and I found the twentieth century’s transformation of these formal tools into weapons by and large distracting. All poems live or die in the concerted arrangement of syllables into patterns that are alternatively broken or reinforced. Wyatt taught me that." |
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“One Good Thing About Being Alive is the View”
In a roundup of the best recent poetry collections, Joanne Less introduces three debut collections, by Will Harris (Rendang), Mina Gorji (Art of Escape) and Crispin Best (Hello). She also highlights the new translation of leading Japanese poet Itō Hiromi's Killing Kanoko / Wild Grass on the Riverbank, noting that, 'Itō entwines the sensual and the grotesque in this radical, relentless collection."
viaTHE GUARDIAN |
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