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Dear Readers,
This week we continue our prose series with the Introduction to Naming Thy Name: Cross Talk in Shakespeare's Sonnets, by Elaine Scarry:
"Having so often heard Shakespeare's account of their love, we might wish to ignore his voice for a brief time and submerge ourselves instead in the voice of the beloved friend. Though he often speaks in great distress, he also defends himself brilliantly against Shakespeare's complaints. In his most intimate poems, he conceives of himself and his lover as twins, and speaks with the tender confidence we associate with Romeo and Juliet.
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While it may be hard to turn away from this lyric voice, we must open this story by listening for a time to Shakespeare. By doing so we will come to see what, with the help of patience and suspension of disbelief, may eventually stand forth with simple clarity: the beautiful young man is the poet, international diplomat, and brave defender of religious tolerance Henry Constable—or, as he was often called by contemporaries, 'sweet Henry Constable.'"
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: Paul Wilnere reviews two posthumous collections by Philip Levine, The Last Shift, and My Lost Poets. (San Francisco Chronicle) Geoff Page reviews Jan Owen’s The Wicked Flowers of Charles Baudelaire, Andrew Taylor’s Impossible Preludes: Poems 2008-2014, and Peter Boyle's Ghostspeaking. (The Australian) William Logan reviews Ishion Hutchinson's House of Lords and Commons. (The New York Times) Matthew Zapruder introduces Christopher Salerno's "In Vitro." (The New York Times Magazine) In Part 6 of his series, David Biespiel reflects on William Carlos Williams's "To Elsie." (The Rumpus) Paul Muldoon's Selected Poems 1968-2014 reviewed by Dwight Garner. (The New York Times) Andrew McCulloch introduces Howard Nemerov's "Burning the Leaves." (The Times Literary Supplement) Kaveh Akbar interviews Jericho Brown. (Divedapper) Carol Rumens introduces Louis MacNeice's "Meeting Point." (The Guardian) And more...4. Selected New Arrivals
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The work of the following poets will appear as Today's Poem on the days indicated:
Monday - Stephen Edgar
Tuesday - James Galvin
Wednesday - Aliki Barnstone
Thursday - Janice N. Harrington
Friday - Thomas Reiter
Saturday - Amy Wright
Sunday - Caitríona O'Reilly
6. Featured Poets November 14 - November 20, 2016
These and other past featured poets may be found in our archive:
Monday - Ted Kooser
Tuesday - Stanley Plumly
Wednesday - Steve Kronen
Thursday - Kay Cosgrove
Friday - Ron Smith
Saturday - Anne Pierson Wiese
Sunday - Mary Elder Jacobsen
7. Last Year’s Featured Poets
These poems will be retired from our archive during the coming week.
Gary Fincke, "Upon the Tongue"
Gibbons Ruark, "Last Day at Newbliss: Remembering Richard Hugo"
Jon Loomis, "Regret"
Donald Hall, "Her Garden"
Chad Bennett, "Idiorrhythmy"
Richie Hofmann, "Mirror"
Wendy Barker, "Teaching Mrs. Dalloway I'm Thinking"
8. Poem From Last Year
Idiorrhythmy
First, there was faith—
how a terrestrial
body pulled by the force of
attraction toward
earth's molten center
nonetheless hung willing
from a fixed point.
Second, desire—
how such a body in
and through motion could acquire a trapped
arc of momentum ...
Then
I was born; some god
set this pendulum going
inside me.
Chad Bennett
The Colorado Review
Fall/Winter 2015
Copyright © 2015 by Chad Bennett
All rights reserved.
Reproduced by Poetry Daily with permission
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