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2011 has been off to a rough start, to put it mildly. From the Japanese earthquake, tsunami, and subsequent nuclear crisis, to violent revolutions in the Middle East, to deadly tornadoes and flooding in the American South, it’s enough to make one want to hide in a bunker for the rest of the year. Now that [more...]  Many people see poetry as an act of creation, but Srikanth Reddy shows in his latest collection, Voyager, that it can also be an act of erasure. Reddy transforms the memoir of Kurt Waldheim, the controversial figure who served as U.N. Secretary-General from 1972-81 and was found to be an intelligence officer in Hitler’s [more...] If you’ve been paying attention to our blog, you’ve noticed that three of the four new books being released this Spring belong to the New California Poetry series. What is the New California Poetry series, you ask? UC Press Poetry editor Rachel Berchten offers this explanation: A cornerstone of the UC Press Poetry program, the New [more...] Establishing National Poetry Month in April, which T.S. Eliot famously deemed “the cruelest month,” might seem a little misguided. But on closer look, the Academy of American Poets may be on to something. For Eliot, April is the month that stirs up all the emotions that have lain dormant in winter, “mixing/ Memory and desire.” [more...] The just-released H.D. Book, Robert Duncan’s homage to the modernist poet H.D. that eventually developed into a unique quest toward a new poetics, is turning heads in literary circles, and not just because of that handsome photo on the cover. Publishers Weekly, Bookforum, The New Republic, and The Nation have all praised the book for the [more...] Poetry lovers, take note: Legendary Beat poet Michael McClure will be reading from his new collection of poems, Of Indigo and Saffron, at City Lights Books on Wednesday, January 26 at 7:00 p.m. One of the five poets who heralded the Beat movement in the 1955 Six Gallery reading in San Francisco, [more...] Amiri Baraka, author of the American Book Award-winning Digging and over 40 other books of essays, poems, drama, and criticism, spoke with albuquerqueARTS magazine about conspiracy theories, the alchemy of poetry and music, and creating art in an imperialist context. On November 6, Baraka will collaborate with Cecil Taylor for the keynote performance of SHOUT-OUT: [more...] Poet Raúl Zurita was a 24-year old student in Valparaiso, Chile on the day of Augusto Pinochet’s coup in 1973, and lived for 17 years under the military dictatorship. In Purgatory, he records the pain and suffering he and the Chilean people experienced during that era, and reveals how this pain and suffering, as well [more...] On the surface, they may seem different—one is a book about American jazz, the other is about the relationship between romantic and experimental modern poetry—but Amiri Baraka’s Digging: The Afro-American Soul of American Classical Music and Poems for the Millenium, Volume 3: The University of California Book of Romantic & Postromantic Poetry, edited by Jerome [more...] In anticipation of Michael McClure’s book, “Mysteriosos and Other Poems”, (published in April by New Directions), Steven Fama wrote a blog post called “17 Reasons Why…I Love the Work of Michael McClure!”. Number one on the list was the October 7, 1955 reading at the Six Gallery in San Francisco. It was McClure’s first poetry reading, [more...] |
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