2012年12月6日 · Words in a poem take place against the context of silence (or maybe an espresso maker, depending on the reading series), whereas, as musicians like Will Oldham and David Byrne have recently pointed out, lyrics take place in the context of a lot of deliberate musical information: melody, rhythm, instrumentation, the quality of the singer’'s ...

2024年5月17日 · This song of them breaking again. Nick Martino He is the author of the forthcoming Scrap Book , which was selected as the Editors’ Choice for the 2024 Alice James Award.

A palinode, etymologically, is a backward song, a song of retracing one’s path to find it changed. This book emerged from a poetics of retraction, of self-doubt, free-floating remorse and blame. As the lead poem in this book, “Palinode” positions all of Blackacre as a recantation of Ignatz , which was a book that stood for the generative ...

2013年6月19日 · Translated from the Japanese by Christian Nagle. I. infancy. the snow that fell on me. was like floss silk ...

2015年3月25日 · The poems shift from a commitment to Black Nationalism to asking for “the new socialist reality, its [sic] the ultimate tidal wave.” The poem in which this quotation appears—“A New Reality Is Better / Than a New Movie!”—was originally published in Hard Facts, a mimeographed, stapled pamphlet. It was a stark illustration that after ...

2024年4月26日 · Camonghne Felix is the author of DYSCALCULIA and poetry collection Build Yourself a Boat, which was long-listed for the 2019 National Book Award in Poetry.

2015年3月10日 · The experimental poem devoted to dismantling common sense or ideology is governed by something like the post-Romantic value of “permanent parabasis”: an irony that refuses closure. The condition of its endlessreadability is that its subject should remain unfixed, never trapped in the partiality of an articulated identity.

2017年4月10日 · Whatever it is you’re thinking the poem has, if you don’t put that in the poem, the poem can’t have it. It will never have it.” I remember Charles Bernstein once said—I can’t recall the context—“grandmothers are not poems,” and this seems a pretty succinct way of addressing this issue of the not-I or not-me.

2022年9月1日 · A poem from The Unmooring was featured in the 2019 Poem-In-Your-Pocket anthology, co-created by the League of Canadian Poets and the Academy of American Poets. Adebe served as the 2019–20 Barbara Smith Writer-in-Residence with Twelve Literary Arts (Cleveland, Ohio) and was selected by Sonia Sanchez as the winner of the 2021 Boston …

A book in which each poem is memorable, the style necessary and particular to each poem, the language consistently doing the work required by the subject matter, Song and Dance would be a rare achievement in any era. And the subject matter here—the deterioration and death of the poet’s brother, Broadway actor David Shapiro, due to brain ...