[New-Poetry] Re: Dick Barnes

[David Graham]

You've anthologized Dick Barnes, haven't you, Sam?  That may be where  
I first tumbled on to him.

A nice essay on Barnes by Rbt. Mezey (quoting liberally from his  
introduction to the selected poems) is online here:

http://www.pomona.edu/Magazine/PCMfl05/DEbookshelf.shtml

If anyone's interested, I found a good number of his poems & a  
sampling of his Borges translations online, too--easily discoved via  
Google.



On Dec 13, 2006, at 11:29 AM, Rsgwynn1 at cs.com wrote:

> In a message dated 12/13/2006 11:19:31 AM Central Standard Time,  
> GrahamD at ripon.edu writes:
>>
>>
>> Speaking of unknown poets, last summer I discovered the work of  
>> Dick Barnes, whose selected poems were published posthumously in  
>> 2005.  Like Frederick Seidel's, his was a name I guess I was  
>> vaguely aware of, but I couldn't have named a book or poem by  
>> him.  He's still not exactly easy to find--not published by FSG,  
>> for one thing.
>>
>>
>> His selected poems was edited by Robert Mezey, whose introduction  
>> to the work is very compelling.  I'm sure that the blurb on the  
>> jacket from David Ferry ("one of the best poets we've had in  
>> America") will convince as few readers as Adam Kirsch's praise of  
>> Seidel seems to, but Barnes is really worth checking out.
>>
>>
>
> He and Mezey co-translated Borges's poetry, but the poet's estate  
> would not allow the huge book to be published.  It's pretty  
> impressive work, restoring Borges's formal practices.

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