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Comment on Citizen and Poet by Link Trove – Pesbo

Link Trove – Pesbo — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 17:13:43 +0000

[...] a person I just met who mentioned him off the cuff, one an interview in the current Descant and now Lawrence Ferlinghetti interviewed earlier in the year at the blog of New [...]

Comment on Translations of classical Chinese poems by Bill Bartmann

Bill Bartmann — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 19:53:11 +0000

Excellent site, keep up the good work

Comment on Translations of classical Chinese poems by MeriMagdalen

MeriMagdalen — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 00:00:46 +0000

Cool sight. I will add this to my favorites.

Comment on Of Being Numerous by Jeffrey

Jeffrey — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 14:47:13 +0000

Forrest hits the nail in the soul — and the occasional disparity between what’s on the page and what GO read. Devoted poetry scholars, there’s a dissertation in there! His daughter once said that GO didn’t give that many readings because of stage fright (!) But we were actually able to track down quite a few readings to pull from for this cd, which includes poems from all his books. Why not buy 3 for those summer encounters?

Comment on Of Being Numerous by Forrest Gander

Forrest Gander — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 10:43:54 +0000

Yes that voice. It was splendid to include the cd with the Collected Poems. His short breath– all those years of heavy smoking– intensifies the readings, dramatizes the serial construction of the syntax, the sense of incompletion and arrival, doesn’t it? As though the struggle to breathe and the struggle to arrive “at clarity” were one in the same, as they are.

Comment on Indie hip-hop artist named Poet Laureate of Edmonton, Alberta by ZEITGEIST

ZEITGEIST — Fri, 29 May 2009 07:20:33 +0000

[...] you might enjoy the new poet laureate of Edmonton, Roland Pemberton/Cadence Weapon. (Via the New Directions poetry blog). The Globe and Mail has an interview with Pemberton, in which he explains how to [...]

Comment on Translations of classical Chinese poems by newdirectionspoetry

newdirectionspoetry — Tue, 26 May 2009 20:07:41 +0000

Thanks so much for the kind words and the support. Please do stop by again and let us know what you think of the new selection. Soo Jin

Comment on Translations of classical Chinese poems by Mortimer Peacock

Mortimer Peacock — Tue, 26 May 2009 20:00:19 +0000

I’m a great fan of Rexroth’s translations myself, though I must confess I had no idea that ND had just released collected editions of his Chinese and Japanese translations until I came to this here blog. Must purchase.

Love ND, love the blog. Keep up the good work.

Comment on Citizen and Poet by Atlas Darwin

Atlas Darwin — Thu, 07 May 2009 18:56:32 +0000

Perceiving Rexroth’s work as insufficiently timeless..like Plimpton I wonder if he was all party and no printed page….and while not a homophobe, the nonconformity quotient of proud homosexuality, while once powerful in its lack of acceptance is lost on our generation. I speak of a dimension of color blindness… It’s like drug use and criminals…Still my lineage as a poet of politics, citizenship and bias is as traceable to Ferlings and Rex as much as Sandburg, Dylan, Nemerov and R. A. t. M. I guess I comment just to wreckanighs two of my favorite americans.

Comment on Language out of work by New Directions on Christian Bök on Language in Poetry « A Compulsive Reader

New Directions on Christian Bök on Language in Poetry « A Compulsive Reader — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 15:01:59 +0000

[...] Soo Jin, on the New Directions Poetry page, riffed a bit off of that statement: There is a sort of duplicity in the language of poetry, or as I heard Marie Ponsot once say: “Each word in a poem should function on at least three levels.” I loved that “at least” implying the infinity of language. [...]