A Short Organon: ‘Poetic Integrity’
I was asked by Denver’s Westerlind (via e-mail) about my thoughts on ‘poetic integrity.’ At once I felt a real clarity and …
July 2013
Sunning in a Nunnery; or, ‘A Review in 11 Fits’; or, Aandaal’s “The Song of Kamadeva, God of Love” (Trans. Ravi Shankar)
Ravi Shankar vs. Aandaal, eighth-century female saint. A translation from Tamil to English presented in Cortland Review’s ‘Summer Feature: In …
POTM: Gjertrud Schnackenburg’s “Signs”
Signs Threading the palm, a web of little lines Spells out the lost money, the heart, the head, The wagging …
Youna Kwak and ‘The Living Substance’
Without minimizing the joy and magic that poetry enacts in place, there is the further possibility that poetry can do more than entertain …
Elizabeth Robinson’s “Leopold Stokowski tells Marian Anderson, ‘My roof is too low for you'”
Simone Weil, in The Iliad, or The Poem of Force, writes ‘And as for the soul, what an extraordinary house it …
The Spider in Laura Riding
Elegy in a Spider’s Web What to say when the spider Say when the spider what When the spider the …
‘Edgy’ Poetry
Let’s be frank: the ‘edgy’ in poetry is a called-for characteristic of the most nebulous sort. Yet a cursory look …
Henri Cole’s “City Horse”
A poem that draws anxiety to the widths of a wire, Henri Cole’s “City Horse” is achievement in both run-on form …
