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Most evenings at this time of year I can stand on my front porch and look up at the constellation Orion hanging over the horizon, conspicuous because of the brightness of its stars Betelgeuse (the shoulder), Rigel (in his left leg), Bellatrix, many other bright stars, as well as the Orion nebula. In mythology Orion was a […]
Yusef Komunyakaa’s own personal history, particularly his childhood, which is the subject of his book Magic City (University Press of New England, 1992), is very important to him. He’s imagined his great-grandparents’ entry into this country in his poem Mismatched Shoes, and wrote an incredible poem, originally appearing in Neon Vernacular, titled, Songs For My Father. His […]
On April 29th, 2007, poet Yusef Komunyakaa will celebrate his sixtieth birthday. His career as a poet began more than thirty years ago, and his first book Dedications and Other Darkhorses (R.M.C.A.J. Books), was published in 1977. Since then he’s become not only one of the best poets writing today but also one of the most prolific, having […]
World War I caused a major shift in the consciousness of Western civilization, possibly even global civilization, and such shifts are always best represented in art. The literature of World War I includes the bitter, occasionally harsh, poetry of poets like Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves, and of course Wilfred Owen, who was killed a week […]
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The poet Julia Copus has, for a young poet, a surprisingly strong, clear, straightforward voice. Her first book, The Shuttered Eye, was published in 1995 by Bloodaxe Books, a publisher known for breaking new ground. Their slogan, after all, is, “Poetry with an edge”, and that does apply to the work of Julia Copus. […]
Ironically we know more about Sin-leqi Uninni, the author of a version of Gilgamesh, which is significantly older, than we do about the author of Sir Gawain And The Green Kight and the allegorical poems Patience, Purity, and The Pearl. Simply called the Pearl Poet, we know he was a contemporary of Chaucer, but, living […]
Just a little over one-hundred years ago, on February 21st, 1907, to be precise, Wystan Hugh Auden was born. To mark the occasion a new edition of his Selected Poems has been published, adding thirty poems to the one-hundred originally included in previous editions of his Selected Poems. This new edition also includes some explanatory […]
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