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While we're on the subject of magnificence, many thanks to Stacey and David for inviting me on board this week! — RPB
Commented Jan 13, 2012 on Spend It All [by Robert P. Baird] at The Best American Poetry
Spend It All [by Robert P. Baird]
Pass much time in the company of poets—young or old, online or off—and soon enough you’ll find yourself privy to the cycles of consternation and dismay inspired by the general insignificance of poetry. Even as America counts more active poets than ever before, the art itself, or so the periodic ...
Spend It All [by Robert P. Baird]
Pass much time in the company of poets—young or old, online or off—and soon enough you’ll find yourself privy to the cycles of consternation and dismay inspired by the general insignificance of poetry. Even as America counts more active poets... Continue reading
Posted Jan 13, 2012 at The Best American Poetry
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Hi David, thanks again! Our trip happened in the summer of 1999.
Commented Jan 13, 2012 on On Peter O'Leary's Luminous Epinoia [by Robert P. Baird] at The Best American Poetry
On Peter O'Leary's Luminous Epinoia [by Robert P. Baird]
“Martin Buber tells this tale: ‘Rabbi Mendel once boasted to his teacher Rabbi Elimelekh that evenings he saw the angel who rolls away the light before the darkness, and mornings the angel who rolls away the darkness before the light. ‘Yes,’ said Rabbi Elimelekh, ‘in my youth I saw that too....
An Interview with Oren Izenberg [by Robert P. Baird]
Posted Jan 12, 2012 at The Best American Poetry
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On Peter O'Leary's Luminous Epinoia [by Robert P. Baird]
Posted Jan 11, 2012 at The Best American Poetry
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Hi David, Michael can confirm, but I'm pretty sure this is the world premiere of "Appetite." — RPB
Commented Jan 11, 2012 on An Interview with Michael Robbins [by Robert P. Baird] at The Best American Poetry
An Interview with Michael Robbins [by Robert P. Baird]
Fair to say that Michael Robbins has been on something of a tear recently. He’s had poetry published in The New Yorker and Harper’s, in December he finished his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago, and he reviews regularly for Poetry and the London Review of Books. Currently he’s a visiting pro...
Thanks for the notes, Rob and everyone. For whatever it's worth, Ralph Waldo Emerson actually completed a translation of the Vita Nuova in 1843, but it wasn't published until 1957, long after Rossetti's.
Commented Jan 10, 2012 on Dante, Near and Far [by Robert P. Baird] at The Best American Poetry
Dante, Near and Far [by Robert P. Baird]
There is much strange in La Vita Nuova, the libello or “little book” that Dante composed fifteen or so years before starting in on the Divine Comedy. Take, for starters, the form of the book, an alternation of prose and poetry that produces effects as dizzying as any in Williams's Spring and A...
An Interview with Michael Robbins [by Robert P. Baird]
Posted Jan 10, 2012 at The Best American Poetry
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Dante, Near and Far [by Robert P. Baird]
Posted Jan 9, 2012 at The Best American Poetry
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Tunisia, Egypt, Uganda?
Posted Jan 30, 2011 at 3quarksdaily
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What is Julian Assange Up To?
Posted Dec 5, 2010 at 3quarksdaily
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