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The More Things Change…
Every New Year, this mood of melancholy doggedness… the And here, in a similar register, what strikes me as the best Occupy Writers poem so far, by D. A.Read More
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A Life-Altering Friendship: Dale Jacobson on Thomas McGrath
Dale Jacobson I can’t thank Lyle Daggett enough for posting on his blog this link to a long, powerful memoir by poet Dale Jacobson about his friend and mentor, Thomas McGrath. It’s exciting to have this essay for several reasons. One, McGrath deserves to be more of a presence on our cultural radar, if only because his work has been severely undervalued and almost certainly suppressed—not by some conspiracy of nefarious political opponents, but (worse) by a pernicious aesthetic correctness, according to which poetry that embodies a profound systemic political critique is somehow not “first order” poetry.Read More
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Spontaneous Allen
Dig it. A tantalizing excerpt from a Village Voice interview with Allen Ginsberg, published October 15, 1958. Ginsberg was 32 at the time.Read More