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Tag Archives: poetry
Constantine Cavafy’s The Complete Poems of Cavafy
Modern Greece has produced an amazing body of literature including works by such luminaries as Nikos Kazantzakis, George Seferis, and others. One of the most significant members of this select community is the poet Constantine Cavafy. The Complete Poems of … Continue reading
Billy Collins’ Questions About Angels
Born in 1942 in New York City, Billy Collins has published numerous collections and garnered, among other recognition, fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Guggenheim Foundation. He is possibly … Continue reading
Various artists’ howls, raps & roars: recordings from the san francisco poetry renaissance
“I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix …” But then I heard them reading their existential stream of consciousness rants, … Continue reading
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Tagged Beat poetry, poetry
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Mark Doty’s Sweet Machine
I don’t know if it’s possible for anyone not to be taken by Mark Doty’s poetry. Reading one or two (which I try to do with poetry, so as not to become too glib about it) is like eating one … Continue reading
Basho’s On Love and Barley: Haiku of Basho ( trans. Lucien Stryker)
Basho is, to many, synonymous with haiku. He took his name from a wide-leaf banana tree, rare in Japan, given to him by a student, which stood beside the door of his hut near Edo (modern Tokyo). Basho wrote during … Continue reading
Jimmy Santiago Baca’s Black Mesa Poems
Jimmy Santiago Baca was born in Santa Fe, New Mexico, in 1952 and abandoned by his parents when he was two years old. After living with one of his grandparents for several years, he was placed in an orphanage and … Continue reading
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Tagged American Poetry, poetry
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Toby Barlow’s Sharp Teeth
I’ve had one previous experience with fantasy in verse (well, unless one counts the Iliad, the Odyssey, and the like), and it wasn’t a happy one. Nevertheless, when Toby Barlow’s Sharp Teeth crossed my desk, I screwed my courage to … Continue reading
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Tagged contemporary fantasy, fantasy, horror, poetry
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Catherynne M. Valente’s Apocrypha and A Guide to Folktales in Fragile Dialects
We chew scripture to keep from biting off our tongues as we seize and weep under the bodies of saints, our legs dislocate to take in the pristine coronae, until there is no Catherine left, only the numinous canon they … Continue reading
Lawrence Schimel’s Fairy Tales for Writers/Charles Ardai’s The Good-Neighbor Policy: A Double-Cross in Double Dactyls
We are very fond of small presses here at Green Man Review, not least because they publish some of the most interesting things out there. Several years ago, A Midsummer Night’s Press was revived after a fairly lengthy hiatus. The … Continue reading
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Tagged fairy tale, mystery, poetry
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Constance W. Hassett’s Christina Rossetti: The Patience of Style
I suppose it’s accurate to say that we live in an archaeological age. We in the West spend a great deal of time investigating and re-evaluating the past, sometimes to our benefit, sometimes not so much. There are, for example, … Continue reading
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Tagged Christina Rossetti, criticism, nonfiction, poetry
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