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Selected Translations by W. S. Merwin

The translation of poetry requires justification. Not necessarily for conceptual reasons, but because the experience of reading translated poetry however transcendent and beautiful always feels lacking, incomplete, like living in…

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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: Dorothea Lasky v. Elizabeth Bishop

All of a sudden my inbox is filling up with links from friends to two essays related to poetry that have almost everything and nothing in common at once, and…

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“How to Survive a Hotel Fire” by Veronica Wong

The princess is not a poet, but we never forget that she is written by one, a very good one indeed.

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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: Marilyn Hacker Is No Hack

Here’s hoping more people read the concise and precise interview about translation up on Guernica between Erica Wright and Marilyn Hacker. When we talk about someone being a prolific translator,…

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“Roleplay” by Juliana Gray

In Juliana Gray’s Roleplay, though the book has its share of formal verse – triolets, sonnets, etc – don’t be surprised if you run into a zombie or two. Roleplay…

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The Last Poem I Loved: “Oh Karma, Dharma, pudding and pie” by Philip Appleman

Of all of the people I know who own a smartphone (a majority, anymore), most of them get up in the morning and immediately reach for said smartphone from their…

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A Brief History of The Rumpus Poetry Book Club

Back in July of 2010, The Rumpus started a poetry version of its book club. Board member Camille Dungy selected Shane Book’s Ceiling of Sticks to start us off and…

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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: MFA in the Palm of Your Hand

Released just the other day, the new Paris Review app is slender, simple and, for the cost of absolutely nothing, is already worth as much, nay more, than any MFA…

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“The Children” by Paula Bohince

The plosive thrills and quietly mournful tenor of the finely-wrought poems Paula Bohince’s The Children (her second full-length collection) reward enormously upon first encounter, and only more so upon subsequent…

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“The Fact of the Matter” by Sally Keith

In The Fact of the Matter, moments are artifacts to be labeled and sorted. The poems are not an attempt to make sense – of time, of history, and of…

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The Last Poem I Loved: “Sleeping Lioness” by Larry Levis

As a fiction writer, and as a reader, I gravitate toward stories from the perspective of a specific, imperfect and alert, outward-and-inward-looking consciousness, a transparent eyeball with legs and, at…

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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: Portland!

Portland Goes Wild for Mathew Dickman and the Objectivist Tradition Now: I can’t tell you whether or not two days ago I was in a brief e-mail back and forth…

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