Ending the year on a cranky note.
I don’t exactly know who Gly Maxwell is, but here’s a quote from him. Or maybe her. “The problem with most free verse is that it locates wisdom in the self and not in the language.” Fine, I think...
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Throw Them Out
So yesterday I was throwing out drafts of poems, and not sonnets or any other fixed form, either. Straight up poems. The kind I usually write. It was fun. I’ve read poetry and written at it for so long now that I can...
Read MoreGuy Davenport
Guy Davenport has got to be the smartest guy in Lexington, Kentucky, and probably in all of Kentucky and many adjoining states. I hope he ambles over to Keeneland, one of the most beautiful race tracks in the country, but if he...
Read MoreOn Sonnets, Hollywood, and Buddy the Cat
I just threw last month’s sonnets away, too, but put them on top of the garbage because last week I spotted one of my trash guys in Starbuck’s reading Proust. Therefore, I thought he might have some helpful hints,...
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