Gizzi and Killian claim for Spicer "a broad and lasting effect on a diverse range of writers nationally and internationally." You expect that sort of boilerplate to advertise a book such as this, and they may well be right, but my guess is that Spicer's effect is not so easy to recognize. He would have loathed the thought of poets writing Jack Spicer poems. Those who might write like him are in for a withering squawk from their Martians. To receive Spicer's effect — no doubt tonic for some — poets must abjure "the big lie of the personal" in favor of the poems their antennae pick up from the airwaves.
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Simic is a poet not of big gloomy poems but of small glooms and fears that haunt our waking lives and disturb our sleep.
- Mixed book bag
It looks like a good season run-up to beach reads, with new fiction from Denis Johnson and Aleksandar Hemon, biographies of Gabriel García Márquez and Cornelius Vanderbilt, and John Updike's final collection of poetry.
- And here's the verse part
I think it was Bashō who said, "Yankees suck three ways. So hard. So bad. Wicked bad."
- Warring with words
Five local poets are heading to West Palm Beach, Florida, to represent Maine in the 2009 National Poetry Slam during the first week of August. The event has taken place in a different city every year since 1990; in 1995, Maine took fourth place, and last year the team split the field and placed 36 out of 80.
- Tall tales
This fall brings fiction and poetry lovers new treats from old friends.
- True romance
Bright Star is the best movie ever made about John Keats, the great Romantic poet who died at the age of 25. According to the Internet Movie Database, however, it is also the only one.
- Learning curve
Maine novelist teases our brains
- Rhyme schemes
In honor of poetry month, these books have been plucked from the torrent.
- News to me
Notwithstanding the occasional university-press finalist (this year: David Kirby), the National Book Award for poetry is generally open to only a few American poets.
- Frank Carlberg | The American Dream
Other jazz musicians have set the poetry of Robert Creeley to music. Here poetry takes on the form of incantation in the repetition of Creeley's short, oblique verses.
- Portland Music News: April 10, 2009
We have a tentative street date for cheek-metal purveyors PIGBOAT 's new album, Float: April 21, with a release show later that week, April 25, at Geno's
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