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What a terrific poem.
"Caress" [by Ron Padgett]
In a dream I caressed you and when I woke up I caressed the memory of the dream. I never caressed you in “real life.” I never even wanted to though I was close to liking the idea of caressing you. If I had caressed you I would remember it, which is what I did last night.
The perfect poem to welcome autumn. I love it.
"Autumn Evening" [by David Lehman]
The New York School Diaspora (Part Fifty-Nine): Richard Stull [by Angela Ball]
Posted Sep 12, 2023 at The Best American Poetry
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Thank you, Denise. I am so sorry you have lost your brilliant collaborator and your generous editor, to whom I also owe gratitude. Rest in poetry is such a wonderful wish. You are a source of light and consolation.
WEDNESDAYS WITH DENISE: August 30, 2023
We lost two amazing poets last week. Ed Ochester passed on August 22 and Maureen Seaton on August 26. Since 2000, Ed was my editor University of Pittsburgh Press. Maureen was my best friend and collaborator since 1987. I know they both also impacted the lives of so many of you. In addition to gi...
David Schloss, I so much appreciate your comment. Thank you.
Sarah Gelder, thank you for your generous response.
The New York School Diaspora (Part Fifty-Eight): Anthony McCann [by Angela Ball]
Deseret for John Ashbery Out here someone else is thinking of you, turning now towards you, to the west and away. Your table has been set—and that’s scary, why not? But the nominations have begun and soon you’ll substitute yourself in doorways, and on stairs when these hillsides burst in flames...
The New York School Diaspora (Part Fifty-Eight): Anthony McCann [by Angela Ball]
Posted Aug 29, 2023 at The Best American Poetry
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The New York School Diaspora (Part Fifty-Seven): Mark Ford [by Angela Ball]
Posted Aug 15, 2023 at The Best American Poetry
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Wonderful piece! Who else could encompass Romanticism in one paragraph? (The ante-penultimate.)
Percy Bysshe Shelley Goes Boating [by David Lehman]
Shelley was a classic Leo who was long thought erroneously to have Taurus rising. According to Mark Shulgasser, "the generally accepted birth time has placed 26 Sagittarius on the ascendant, which makes so much more sense, and then Jupiter is the chart ruler, squeezed between Neptune and Mar...
Thank you, Denise, for another great feature honoring a terrific-looking new book!
WEDNESDAYS WITH DENISE: August 2, 2023
Sally Wen Mao’s The Kingdom of Surfaces was published yesterday by Graywolf Press. The book interrogates the Western gaze, the eroticizing/exoticizing of Chinese people, women in particular. Each poem is a knockout that builds and complicates the theme. The poems often center on objects—jade, po...
Dear Walter--thank you for your comment!
David--so happy to see your enthusiasm. Thank you!
The New York School Diaspora (Part Fifty-Six): Loren Goodman [by Angela Ball]
WHO WOULD WIN Ernie Shavers vs. Ernie Hemingway — who would win??? Norman Mailer vs. Norman Bates — who would win??? Betty vs. Veronica — who would win??? Jacques Cousteau vs. Jacques Strap — who would win??? Yellow vs. Blue — who would win??? Blue vs. Gruyère — who would win??? The 60s vs. ...
The New York School Diaspora (Part Fifty-Six): Loren Goodman [by Angela Ball]
Posted Aug 1, 2023 at The Best American Poetry
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Can't resist posting this excerpt from Martin Stannard's review:
Of late I have yearned and longed for a poet new to me to take my breath away. And I have been living with this air of longing and, as a result, also with an air of disappointment. And for a month or two I have had this book – well, PDF to be exact – sitting around waiting to be picked up and reviewed, and I usually like Hanging Loose books because it’s a New York press I know, and I know Bob Hershon who runs it with Mark Pawlak, and it’s almost always all good, then today I sat down and opened the book and it was “goodbye breath” –
The New York School Diaspora (Part Fifty-Five): Justin Jamail [by Angela Ball]
Early April Subway Again room fills up like leaf gutters With attractive grouplets of the stubbornly Coy and then everyone waits together Like the pleasing skinny S-shaped Trees that fill my enemy’s back yard, A place of wet thoughts where forsythia Is asked, cruelly, to be the weather It forete...
Thank you, Martin. Glad to have the link to the review.
Thank you, David. Glad you enjoyed.
The New York School Diaspora (Part Fifty-Five): Justin Jamail [by Angela Ball]
Early April Subway Again room fills up like leaf gutters With attractive grouplets of the stubbornly Coy and then everyone waits together Like the pleasing skinny S-shaped Trees that fill my enemy’s back yard, A place of wet thoughts where forsythia Is asked, cruelly, to be the weather It forete...
The New York School Diaspora (Part Fifty-Five): Justin Jamail [by Angela Ball]
Posted Jul 11, 2023 at The Best American Poetry
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Thank you so much, Jill Newnham!
The New York School Diaspora (Part Fifty-Four): Kevin Thomason [by Angela Ball]
BLACK-AND-WHITE PHOTOGRAPH OF A RELATIVE Edges cut strange shadows this time of day. As sunlight strays, roof shade falls short on the porch, its doorway a slate-black slab behind a crouched man. Contrast dominates the scene, these dual grains of age a resistance to one another. Trees abate them...
The New York School Diaspora (Part Fifty-Four): Kevin Thomason [by Angela Ball]
Posted Jun 27, 2023 at The Best American Poetry
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The New York School Diaspora (Part Fifty-Two): Matthew Zapruder [by Angela Ball]
Posted Jun 13, 2023 at The Best American Poetry
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". . .she can be intimate and ironic at the same time": brilliant!
Also brilliant: "But Channing serves the song where Monroe makes her songs sound like illustrations of her life."
Marilyn Monroe as Chanteuse [by David Lehman]
We don't think of her as a singer, but Marilyn Monroe (whose birthday it is ) sang -- and sang well. Unlike Rita Hayworth and Kim Novak in Pal Joey, Deborah Kerr in The King and I, Natalie Wood in West Side Story, and Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady, she needed no dubbing. (They shouldn't have d...
The New York School Diaspora (Part Fifty-One): Anselm Berrigan [by Angela Ball]
Posted May 30, 2023 at The Best American Poetry
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The New York School Diaspora (Part Fifty): Tyrone Williams [by Angela Ball]
Posted May 16, 2023 at The Best American Poetry
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The New York School Diaspora (Part Forty-Nine): Dobby Gibson [by Angela Ball]
Posted May 2, 2023 at The Best American Poetry
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The New York School Diaspora (Part Forty-Eight): Nathan Hoks [by Angela Ball]
Posted Apr 18, 2023 at The Best American Poetry
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The New York School Diaspora (Part Forty-Six): Dorothea Lasky [by Angela Ball]
Posted Mar 21, 2023 at The Best American Poetry
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The New York School Diaspora (Part Forty-Five) Matthew Yeager [by Angela Ball]
Posted Mar 7, 2023 at The Best American Poetry
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This is such a wonderful idea! Hooray, Patricia; thank you, Denise!
WEDNESDAYS WITH DENISE: March 1, 2023
Patricia Smith’s latest poetry book Unshuttered was published on Feb 15. Starting twenty years ago at a Connecticut flea market, Smith collected more than 200 photographs of African Americans, each image between 120 and 180 years old. She uses the photographs (cabinet cards, cartes de visite, ab...
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