June 2008 Archives

Death is often a good career move in poetry. No sooner are the obsequies over and the baked meats eaten than the publisher warms up the presses for a definitive edition of the collected poems, solemnly proofread down to the last querulous comma. Yet not all poets are well served by such an exhaustive volume, which may seal up a reputation forever — indeed, such a book has sometimes been called a tombstone. A collected poems may be cruelest to a poet whose genius shone as intermittently as a firefly.

[From NYTimes.com]

Two poems by Jo McDougall from the Winter 2008 issue of 2RV are listed in Web de Sol's issue of eScene, which occasionally lists the best work published on the literary web.

[See Series 31]

"Colorful, penetrating art ... and a treasure trove of poems": So says NewPages.Com of the Spring 2008 issue of The 2River View.

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"Hermeneutical mysteriousness is the single most important reason why Objectivist ideals have endured in American poetry." Peter O'Leary digs deep into the Poetry magazine archive to uncover the origins of the Objectivist movement. [From The Energies of Words