I often have an issue with a lot of political or revolutionary poetry, unless it’s really good, then I tolerate it or if it’s really good I praise it. Two overtly political poets, on opposite ends of the spectrum, are Nikki Giovanni and Geoffrey Hill Nikki Giovanni, Bicycles: Love Poems. I found Nikki Giovanni’s Bicycles: […]
Pleasures
life’s simple pleasures
Frederick Seidel, Poems 1959 – 2009. And Charles Upton, The Wars of Love
(direct Amazon links for you forthcoming) On Frederick Seidel, Poems 1959-2009 Joseph Beth Books just received a copy of Frederick Seidel’s massive Poems, 1959 – 2009. So I poached it off their shelves. The hardbound volume was $40, rather expensive, but Seidel’s works are hard to get a hold of in retail chains, and this […]
Links of the day, Sunday 3 October 2010
Fall is upon us. “..Night calls on summer’s end / Dark aspect, breed divine Knee-deep, the blood of swine / Come season, come reborn November Coming Fire..” – Samhain, November Coming Fire, as sung by Glen Danzig “..Winter kept us warm, covering / Earth in forgetful snow, feeding A little life with dried tubers. / […]
Misc. – Books now reading, and thoughts on Catching Predators – 18, September 2010
1. I am now reading three very interesting books. Fabian Biancardi’s “Democracy and the Global System a Contribution to the Critique of Liberal Internationalism” – an interesting look at post-modern democracy, globalism, and governance in our present era. I’ve not yet formed an opinion of this book so far. You can get it at Amazon […]