Poetry Daily Newsletter July 25, 2016

Contents

Letter from the Editors
Sponsor Messages:
- Poetry London Summer 2016 Issue
Poetry news links
Selected new arrivals
This week’s featured poets
Last week’s featured poets
Last year’s featured poets
Poem from last year

1. Letter from the Editors

Dear Readers,

Our prose series this week, "At Scraich of Day" is an interview of Robin Robertson by Robert Stewart, from New Letters (Spring / Summer 2016):

"Dionysus, for me, is the most attractive of all the gods in the Greek pantheon. He's the trickster god and the equivalent to the North American Coyote, or the Scandinavian Loki. He is a protean figure, always transforming himself into other things; more protean than Proteus, in fact. He is the most volatile of all the gods, the youngest god in the pantheon, and the most intriguing, I think. So I've been following his progress and trying to write about him for quite a few years"

Look for it here.

Enjoy this week's poems!

Warmest regards,

Don Selby & Diane Boller

2. Sponsor Messages

Poetry London Summer 2016 Issue
In the new issue of Poetry London, Jennifer Militello, an exciting U.S. poet new to the magazine joins Pascale Petit, alongside new work from Emily Berry, Ian Duhig, Rachael Boast & Jan Wagner & translations by Jack Underwood. Newcomers to Poetry London include Joey Connolly, Alex Houen & Natalya Anderson.

In the review & features section, Lawrence Kramer writes on setting poems to music, Karen McCarthy Woolf interviews Maura Dooley & reviews include books by Sarah Maguire, Stevie Smith & RF Langley.
http://poetrylondon.co.uk/subscribe/

3. Poetry News Links

News and reviews from around the web, updated daily:

Kathleen Graber reviews The Darkening Trapeze, by Larry Levis. (Los Angeles Review of Books)
Frank McNally recalls the war service and career of the writer who once read his own obituary. (The Irish Times)
Kate Kellaway reviews Alice Oswald's Falling Awake. (The Guardian)
Scott Silsbe reviews The Darkening Trapeze, a book of previously uncollected poems by Larry Levis, edited by David St. John. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
Alex Dueben interviews Morgan Parker. (Paris Review Daily)
Centres of Cataclysm: Celebrating Fifty Years of Modern Poetry in Translation, edited by Sasha Dugdale and David & Helen Constantine, reviewed by Sean O'Brien. (The Guardian)
Michael Magras on Ben Lerner's The Hatred of Poetry. (Minneapolis Star Tribune)
Brandon Kreitler on Ben Lerner's The Hatred of Poetry. (Los Angeles Review of Books)
Becca Rothfeld on Ben Lerner's The Hatred of Poetry. (Los Angeles Review of Books)
Israeli Defense Minister Compares Beloved Palestinian Poet to Hitler". (The New York Times)
Claire Armistead profiles Alice Oswald. (The Guardian)
And more...

4. Selected New Arrivals

These and other new arrivals are available for purchase via Poetry Daily/Amazon.com.

Dog Star Notations: Selected Poems 1999-2016, Håkan Sandell (Carcanet Press)
Infinite Altars, James Brasfield (Louisiana State University Press)
KYSO Flash 2015: Anthology #2, Clare MacQueen, editor (KYSO Flash Press)
New Shoes: Haibun Stories, Dan Gilmore (KYSO Flash Press)
Twenty Girls to Envy Me, Orit Gidali, tr. by Marcela Sulak (The University of Texas Press)
A Different Wakeful Animal, Susan Cohen (Red Dragonfly Press)
Two Men Rowing Madly Toward Infinity, William Reichard (Broadstone Books)
After the Storm, Thomas Zemsky (Broadstone Books)
ruina montium, Jeremy Paden (Broadstone Books)
Wine Dark, Jenny Drai (Black Lawrence Press)
The Magic Kingdom, Russel Swensen (Black Lawrence Press)
Blue Hallelujahs, Cynthia Manick (Black Lawrence Press)
Salvage, Kristy Bowen (Black Lawrence Press)
Four American Poets, Anthony Costello, editor (The High Window)
The World As Is: New and Selected Poems, Joseph Hutchison (NYQ Books)
What Blooms in Winter, Maria Mazziotti Gillan (NYQ Books)
A Love Supreme, Professor Arturo (NYQ Books)

5. This Week’s Featured Poets

The work of the following poets will appear as Today's Poem on the days indicated:

Monday - Marilyn Hacker
Tuesday - C. D. Wright
Wednesday - Timothy McBride
Thursday - D. A. Powell
Friday - Alice Notley
Saturday - Kate Angus
Sunday - Robin Robertson

6. Featured Poets July 18 - 24, 2016

These and other past featured poets may be found in our archive:

Monday - Haji Khavari / tr. Roger Sedarat
Tuesday - Edward Doegar
Wednesday - Philip Gross
Thursday - James Richardson
Friday - Midge Goldberg
Saturday - Alicia Ostriker
Sunday - Thomas McCarthy

7. Last Year’s Featured Poets

These poems will be retired from our archive during the coming week.

George Guida, "The Kissed Ring"
Ed Skoog, "Grateful Dead Tapes"
Alberto Ríos, "When There Were Ghosts"
Stanley Plumly, "Variation on a Line from Elizabeth Bishop’s 'Five Flights Up'"
Samn Stockwell, "Supermarket Pastoral"
Frannie Lindsay, "Tenebrae"
Kathleen Halme, "There Was a Deer Whom the Carthean Nymphs Held Sacred"

8. Poem From Last Year

There Was a Deer Whom the Carthean Nymphs Held Sacred

—Metamorphoses, Ovid

I was a god in that body.
Out of my head grew
a splendid rack of antlers

I bore through the high streets
like a fine dendritic arbor.
My beloved, Cyparissus,

strung a large pearl
over my forelock; it bobbed
like a globe of thought.

He rode me bareback
or led me by a poppy bridle.
To go about was to be loved.

I was welcome in parlors and gardens.
Children wove me garlands
of gardenia, bleeding heart,

and the mistletoe my darling's bow
released from high trees.
Mothers rocking babies on porches

offered a breast to me.
On the day the blossoms fell,
I lay dreaming in the grove

and was taken from this life—
oh the horror of my beloved's error—
shot through like any being.

Kathleen Halme
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