(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 […]
Month: January 2011
Qitat – Two fragments of odes to dead poets
To Milton and Abu Nuwas: inspired by Elliot’s thoughts on individual talent and the tradition, behold, my ode to two poets, far better than I.. I. Milton; noble pedant, I like your blank verse, produced by factory assembly lines, for it does bore a legion of school boys, who lack the lungs for heights of […]
Part 3 – Wrapping up stealing the thunder of Giants, and pissing on their Shoulders
[photo source danliterature.files.wordpress.com] So my posts have likely pissed off a few readers, in fact they probably haven’t launched into how empowering what I’m saying really is. What I’m trying to say, when internalized, may be far more relevant to you, as an individual, than your emotive knee jerk reaction may register. An authentic Right […]
Dudes, Nanos gigantium humeris insidentes – Part 2
“When you get what you want in your struggle for self And the world makes you king for a day, Just go to the mirror and look at yourself And see what that man has to say. For it isn’t your father or mother or wife Whose judgment upon you must pass. The fellow whose […]