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1) Evan Gruzis The essence of the simile is for me rooted in a kind of naiveté and risk, an innocence that rushes headlong into the impossible pivot of an association that impossibly arrives at something accurate—a pivot and an... Continue reading
Posted Jul 14, 2012 at The Best American Poetry
I asked my friend, the artist and scholar Blake Bronson-Bartlett, to write us a little essay about Stephen Crane. Blake and I had been discussing Crane’s curious status and reception in the history of American literature. Crane makes possible Hemmingway... Continue reading
Posted Jul 12, 2012 at The Best American Poetry
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MMC Da Click’s sound isn’t easily classifiable. They remind me of the Weeknd or Frank Ocean, which is to say theirs is a somewhat psychedelic, poetic cast of hip-hop and R&B, but they also go toward pop and have elements... Continue reading
Posted Jul 11, 2012 at The Best American Poetry
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[i] [ii] [iii] [iv] [v] [vi] [i] “Album Zutique” Text: “The Album Zutique was a communal journal for the poets and artists with whom Rimbaud associated while living in Paris....They called themselves Zutistes, a word coined from the French exclamation... Continue reading
Posted Jul 10, 2012 at The Best American Poetry
The following interview with film-maker, poet, and editor Nick Twemlow took place in mid-June of 2012 in Iowa City. Nick’s first poetry collection, Palm Trees, is forthcoming (along with the poet Joel Craig’s first book) from Green Lantern press in... Continue reading
Posted Jul 9, 2012 at The Best American Poetry
Ish Klein’s poems are a synthesis of imagination, virtuosity, and feeling the likes of which I’ve never seen before. For this post, I asked Ish to write a poetics statement and asked if I could include her poem “From a... Continue reading
Posted Jul 8, 2012 at The Best American Poetry
Please welcome the scholar and translator Diana Thow, who for today’s entry has generously provided poems from her translation of Amelia Rosselli's Serie Ospedaliera (Hospital Series) in addition to some illuminating and insightful Rosselli context and commentary. —RF From Serie... Continue reading
Posted Jul 7, 2012 at The Best American Poetry
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