April 4, 2017
Poetry In Public III: Deborah Bernhardt and Repetition
In the notes on “Genesis I” in Jerome Rothenberg’s Technicians of the Sacred, he writes: What’s of interest here isn’t the matter of the myth but the power of repetition & […]
June 10, 2016
First Person Plural: Part III (Muhammad Ali)
Throughout my last two posts, I’ve been thinking about strength (and complication) in numbers—the first person plural: “We.” In between those posts and this one, the news broke that boxer […]
February 8, 2012
Borrow ≠ Poetry
1) It happens with some regularity: somewhere I’ll read someone pontificating about some aspect of modern poetry and, in doing so, will note that poetry comes from an oral tradition. […]