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Friday Notebook 08.26.2011
I’ve been reading, as a sort of relief from poetry, the utterly European novellas of the Sicilian writer Leonardo Sciascia. The first three quotes below are from Open Doors; the second is from Death and the Knight. They are two of the four novellas collected in Open Doors and Three Novellas, the title of which implies that Open Doors itself is not a novella. Well, maybe so. Although it is must 72 pages long, it is structured like a novel.Read More
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Three Poems by Roberto Juarroz
One of the most intrepid translators of the mercurial Roberto Juarroz is my friend Mary Crow, whose selection of Juarroz’s late poetry was recently released by White Pine Press as Vertical Poetry: Last Poems. (Just an aside: White Pine Press is surely one of the country’s great literary publishers, and yet it seems quite a bit lesser known than Copper Canyon, Graywolf, or Milkweed.Read More
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More on The Poem in Its Skin
I mentioned Paul Carroll’s The Poem in Its Skin in the previous post but forgot to scan the cover. So here it is. I have to scan it because it’s out of print, along with all of the books from Carroll’s Follett Books imprint, Big Table Books. Via Big Table Carroll published the fat and important anthology The Young American Poets (1968), as well as the first collection of W. S.Read More
Joseph Hutchison, Colorado Poet Laureate 2014-2019, has published 20 collections of poems and edited or co-edited three poetry anthologies. He currently directs two master’s-level programs for University College at the University of Denver: Professional Creative Writing and Arts & Culture Management. Joe lives with his wife, Melody Madonna, in the mountains southwest of Denver, Colorado, the city where he was born. 
