Stanford professor and poetry critic Marjorie Perloff makes a striking defense of avant-garde poetry—attacking in the effort strains of mainstream lyricing—in the current Boston Review. The magazine has made the entire fluid essay available on-line. In “Poetry on the Brink,” Perloff begins by framing contemporary poetry as a career move and lays down the for […]
(Sources: BBC, CBC, CNN, The Korean Herald, MSNBC, NPR, The New York Times, The Telegraph, The Weekly Standard, Wired, a student from my class) In 2006…a four-year jail sentence….On his release…put under house arrest…and for the next 19 months…kept a prisoner in his own home, sometimes severely beaten As the Chen Guangcheng inc […]
The phantom of the man-who-would-understand, the lost brother, the twin— [....] the comrade/twin whose palm would bear a lifeline like our own: [....] merely a fellow creature [...]