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Dear Readers,
Our prose series continues this week with David Baker's "Representative Men," reviewing books by Reginald Dwayne Betts and Zach Savich, from Kenyon Review:
"What does anyone—any one of us—represent? Whom do we represent? In 'The Poet' Emerson fuses democratic idealism and aesthetic power when he asserts that the poet is representative: 'He stands among partial men for the complete man, and apprises us not of his wealth, but of the common wealth'... I want to press on the issue of representation anew as I look at two new books of poems by emerging male poets who seem, at first, to represent far-distant points on the continuum of cultural engagement and personal revelation. What does it mean to represent?"
Look for it here.
Best wishes for the new year!
Warmest regards,
Don Selby & Diane Boller
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3. Poetry News Links
News and reviews from around the web, updated daily: A. E. Stallings reviews Stephen Yenser's Stone Fruit. (Los Angeles Review of Books) Dan Dervin reviews Guilty Thing: A Life of Thomas De Quincey, By Frances Wilson. (The Free Lance-Star) Nandini Majumdar interviews Ishion Hutchinson. (The Wire) Rebecca Foust introduces "Meditation in Middle Age" by Catherine Tufariello. (Women's Voices for Change) One Toss of the Dice: The Incredible Story of How a Poem Made Us Modern, by R. Howard Bloch, reviewed by Richard Davenport-Hines. (The Spectator) Anna Heyward on "The Tragic Death of Mark Baumer." (The New Yorker) Rumi’s Secret: The Life of the Sufi Poet of Love, by Brad Gooch, reviewed by Elizabeth Lund. (The Christian Science Monitor) Kaveh Akbar interviews Roger Reeves. (Divedapper) And more...4. Selected New Arrivals
These and other new arrivals are available for purchase via Poetry Daily/Amazon.com.
Spirit Boxing, Afaa Michael Weaver (University of Pittsburgh Press) Afterings, Deborah Tall (Hobart and William Smith Colleges Press) The Heronry, Mark Jarman (Sarabande Books) Elizabeth Bishop: A Miracle for Breakfast, Megan Marshall (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) The Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded, Molly McCully Brown (Persea Books) Whereas, Stephen Dunn (W. W. Norton & Company) Insomnia (new in paperback), Linda Pastan (W. W. Norton & Company) Queen Kong, Amanda J. Bradley (NYQ Books) Lowly, Alan Felsenthal (Ugly Duckling Presse) The Demotion of Pluto: Poems and Plays, Deborah Meadows (BlazeVOX [books]) Terra Nova, Cynthia Huntington (Southern Illinois University Press) Full Body Pleasure Suit, Elsbeth Pancrazi (Tavern Books) At the Devil's Banquets / Aux Banquets du Diable, Anise Koltz, tr. John F. Deane (Tavern Books) Imagine Not Drowning, Kelli Allen (C&R Press) Les Fauves, Barbara Crooker (C&R Press) Debris Field, Miriam N. Kotzin (David Robert Books) Harmonies Unheard, William Swarts (David Robert Books) I Should Praise, Julian A. Miller (David Robert Books) Chuckleberry Chutney, Skip Hughes (David Robert Books) It Doesn't Work Like That, RA May (Word Poetry) The God of Roundabouts, Susan Shaw Sailer (Word Poetry) Before the Ink Is Dry, Martha Deborah Hall (Word Poetry) Incognito, Biljana D. Obradoviċ (WordTech Editions) Truth and Beauty, Marion Deutsche Cohen (WordTech Editions) The Scientific Method, Kim Roberts (WordTech Editions) In the Absence, Dara Barnat (Turning Point) Bare Hands, Lindsey Royce (Turning Point) The Cholo Who Said Nothing, Kenneth Robert Chacón (Turning Point) Pretty Things Please, Marjorie Thomsen (Turning Point) Lives & Mortalities, Carol Frome (CW Books) Stripper in Wonderland, Derrick Harriell (Louisiana State University Press) The Atheist Wore Goat Silk, Anna Journey (Louisiana State University Press) Dilemmas of the Angels, David Romtvedt (Louisiana State University Press)5. This Week’s Featured Poets
The work of the following poets will appear as Today's Poem on the days indicated:
Monday - Esteban Rodríguez
Tuesday - Dean Young
Wednesday - Mark Jarman
Thursday - Afaa Michael Weaver
Friday - Kiki Petrosino
Saturday - Andrea Jurjević
Sunday - D. A. Lockhart
6. Featured Poets January 23, 2017- January 29, 2017
These and other past featured poets may be found in our archive:
Monday - Jessica Fisher
Tuesday - Kimberly Johnson
Wednesday - Floyd Skloot
Thursday - Lisa Russ Spaar
Friday - Neil Shepard
Saturday - Molly Peacock
Sunday - Safiya Sinclair
7. Last Year’s Featured Poets
These poems will be retired from our archive during the coming week.
Elizabeth Smither, "My mother's house"
Paula Bohince, "Butterflies"
Henri Cole, "The Party Tent"
Fleda Brown, "Edward Hopper's Automat"
Jill Osier, "Left to Itself the Heart Continues to Pound at Its Chest"
Bonnie Jo Campbell, "Set Theory"
Joyce Peseroff, "Horse, Alone, November"
8. Poem From Last Year
My mother's house
Once, near nightfall, I drove past my mother's house.
She was inside it, moving about some task.
I saw her move from room to room.
I could have stopped. Shortly she would draw the blinds
but a knock on the door might alarm her
who had her routine for night.
It was all those unseen moments we do not see
the best of a friend, the best of a mother
competent and gracious in her solitude
as if she was concentrating as she had as a child
on something she was reading or pondering
a thought that occupied a minute of a day
and brought her pleasure at her own competence
to tame a minute, to exist inside it
as still as the minute was to itself
neither neutral nor particular but she made it
who would soon walk into the last room
of her life and go to sleep in it.
Elizabeth Smither
The Manchester Review
Issue 15
Copyright © 2015 by Elizabeth Smither
All rights reserved.
Reproduced by Poetry Daily with permission
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