[New-Poetry] Re: Poetry Blogs

Fri Jun 8 12:29:16 EDT 2007

How very nice of you Bob, I do appreciate any mention.
Unluckily I switched to Beta Blogger and lost all my links, my sitemeter, and my moon (I also loved that moon: waxing and waning)
I am therefore quite depressed.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Bob Grumman 
  To: NewPoetry: Contemporary Poetry News &amp;Views 
  Sent: Friday, June 08, 2007 6:23 PM
  Subject: [New-Poetry] Re: Poetry Blogs

  A while back, I announced that I was going to write about poetry blogs in my Small Press review column.  Since then, I've done a number of them, covering some New-Poetry members' blogs--Mike Snider's and Chris Lott's, for instance.  I'm working on another installment in which I'll be mentioning David Graham's list of blogs, and his Poetry Library.  I want to mention the blog I thought you had, too, David--although it looks like you are one of the few of us without one.  If you have one, please let me know its URL.

  Anyone else who wants to make me aware of a blog, do so.  I can't be exhaustive, but I'm trying to cover as many as I can--across the whole range of what's going on in American poetry.  The column I'm doing today will be about James F.'s, Halvard's, Anny's, Jeff's, Tom Beckett's--and David's, if he has one.  Won't, alas, be able to say much about any of them--but something.

  Thanks, Bob

    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: David Graham 
    To: NewPoetry: Contemporary Poetry News &amp;Views 
    Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2007 8:43 AM
    Subject: [Norton AntiSpam] [New-Poetry] American Modernism

    Out of town & offline for a week, I'm coming late to this thread, so forgive me if someone's already mentioned a lovely little anthology edited by Karl Shapiro:  *Prose Keys to Modern Poetry*.  I believe it's long out of print, but still available on Amazon & the used shops.   

    Best single collection I've seen, even after all these years.  It collects most of the classic statements from Whitman, Poe, Baudelaire, through Pound, Eliot, Stevens, Lawrence, Jeffers, et al.  From 1962, originally, but not much outdated, since it covers original statements by the originators.  

    Kenner's books are not only essential but great fun to read. 

    Not usually considered much in discussions of modernist thought, Frost has attracted some interesting attention from critics who do consider him such. Richard Poirier's *Frost:  the Work of Knowing* is  about the single best book on Frost, I'd say, and firmly places him as the intellectual peer of Eliot & Stevens.  Frank Lentricchia's *Modernist Quartet* is similar, linking Frost with Pound, Stevens, and Eliot.

    Pinsky's classic *The Situation of Poetry* is about post-modern poetry, but has one of the most lucid discussions of modernist thought that I've seen.  

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    David Graham
    grahamd at ripon.edu

    Home Page:
    http://web.mac.com/drjazz/iWeb/Site/About%20Me.html

    Poetry Library:
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    On Jun 1, 2007, at 12:22 PM, Anny Ballardini wrote:

      Don't know if these are useful, but this is what I had to go through:

      Besides the Cantos and Personae by Pound;
      ABC of Reading by EP
      Pound: selected prose 1909-1965
      Guide to Kulchur by EP
      A guide to EP's Personae (1926) Ruthven
      The Solitary Volcano by John Tytell
      The Imagist Poem by William Pratt

      then a couple of guides to the Cantos.

        ----- Original Message ----- 
        From: Jeff Newberry 
        To: NewPoetry 
        Sent: Friday, June 01, 2007 5:21 PM
        Subject: [New-Poetry] American Modernism

        A request for some of the more scholarly-minded folks in the NewPoetry world:

        One of my comprehensive examinations is on American Modernism.  I'm looking for some titles of critical works that discuss Modernism as a concept.  Particularly helpful would be any work focused on American Modernist writers or artists.  The more contemporary the criticism, the better--although, I'd appreciate any titles. 

        I am looking at Hugh Kenner's two books, The Pound Era & A Homemade World:  American Writers of the Modernist Era.

        I'd appreciate any suggestions. 

        Best,

        Jeff Newberry

        -- 
        "Memory believes before knowing remembers.  Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders."
        —William Faulkner, Light in August 

        http://museoffireblog.blogspot.com 

        -- 
        "Memory believes before knowing remembers.  Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders."
        —William Faulkner, Light in August

        http://museoffireblog.blogspot.com 

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