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Dear Readers,
This week's prose feature is John Taylor's "Who Is General Instin?" from the spring issue of Antioch Review:
"Has a poetic project like "General Instin" ever been carried out in the United States? I have never heard of anything even remotely resembling, in scope and approach, this droll, mysterious, and drolly mysterious cultural adventure that has involved dozens of French poets, writers, and artists for nearly two decades, and that has now come to fruition.
"The project began in 1996 when the novelist Patrick Chatelier (b. 1965), who had admittedly "gone astray" while strolling through Montparnasse Cemetery, came across the grave of one Adolphe Hinstin (1831-1905)..."
Look for it here.
Enjoy this week's poems!
Warmest regards,
Don Selby & Diane Boller
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3. Poetry News Links
News and reviews from around the web, updated daily: Dana Gioia's 99 Poems: New and Selected reviewed by Frank Wilson. (The Philadelphia Inquirer) Rigoberto González reviews collections by Derrick Austin, Michael Prior, and Phillip B. Williams. (Los Angeles Review of Books) Yves Bonnefoy, 93 (BBC News) Housman Country: Into the Heart of England, by Peter Parker, reviewed by John Mullan. (New Statesman) Alice Oswald's Falling Awake reviewed by Charlotte Runcie. (The Telegraph) David Mason on Nearer the Heart's Desire: Poets of the Rubaiyat, A Dual Biography of Omar Khayyam and Edward FitzGerald, by Robert D. Richardson; and Edward FitzGerald’s Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, edited by Robert D. Richardson. (The Wall Street Journal) Seamus Heaney's translation of Aeneid Book VI reviewed by Brooke Clark. (Partisan) And more...4. Selected New Arrivals
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Of Poetry and Protest: From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin, Philip Cushway and Michael Warr, ed.s (W. W. Norton & Company) The Silvering, Maura Dooley (Bloodaxe Books) The Constellation of Extinct Stars: And Other Poems, Scot Siegel (Salmon Poetry) The Night-Watchman's Daughter, Michael Heffernan (Salmon Poetry) The Red Bowl, Holaday Mason (Red Hen Press) Still Life with Poem: Contemporary Natures Mortes in Verse, Jehanne Dubrow and Lindsay Lusby (Literary House Press) Caligulan, Ernest Hilbert (Measure Press) Sleaze & Slander: New and Selected Comic Verse, 1995-2015, A.M. Juster (Measure Press) Snowman's Code, Midge Goldberg (University of Evansville Press) ShallCross, C.D. Wright (Copper Canyon Press) Alamo Theory, Josh Bell (Copper Canyon Press)5. This Week’s Featured Poets
The work of the following poets will appear as Today's Poem on the days indicated:
Monday - Daniela Danz / tr. Monika Cassel
Tuesday - Steve Kronen
Wednesday - Pádraig J Daly
Thursday - Ian Duhig
Friday - Michael Waters
Saturday - Ed Madden
Sunday - Floyd Skloot
6. Featured Poets June 27- July 3, 2016
These and other past featured poets may be found in our archive:
Monday - Bruce Cohen
Tuesday - Laurence Lieberman
Wednesday - Jessica Fisher
Thursday - Frederick Seidel
Friday - Aracelis Girmay
Saturday - Jay Deshpande
Sunday - Monica Youn
7. Last Year’s Featured Poets
These poems will be retired from our archive during the coming week.
Neil Shepard, "Hominid Up"
John Poch, "Perspective on Might"
David Kirby, "So Many Wows"
Phillis Levin, "Burgundy Scarf"
Alicia Jo Rabins, Two Poems
Andrew Elliott, "Something Unnaturally Fast"
Lee Sharkey, "Lashing the Body from the Bones"
8. Poem From Last Year
Burgundy Scarf
Undertone of dying leaf, marvel
Of a scarf lost on a walk long ago,
Later returning. Hand that made it
Gone. Hand of the boy for whom
It was made, for whom it was meant,
Alive, keeping it alive, passing it on.
Smoky. Worn. Hand accepting it
Mine, touching fabric of division,
Undulant woof of meaning, question
That cannot be asked. Tell me, Father,
Do you remember her still, the girl
Before my mother, who made it for you,
Knitting it day by day until it was done?
Why did you give it to me, for now
It is lost again on another walk
Across another lawn. Did you need it
To be gone, did you suffer
For this giving, did you hold the words
In check, and is that mine, too,
To believe that there are words behind
No words, mine to find no words
Behind them? And if it was easy
To give away and meant so little,
And she means nothing to you
Anymore, why did your fingers tremble
When you placed the wine-red scarf
Around my neck? Why did it take
So long for me to wear it, what is gone
Now that it's gone for good?
Phillis Levin
The Kenyon Review
July / August 2015
Copyright © 2015 by Phillis Levin
All rights reserved.
Reproduced by Poetry Daily with permission
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