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Dear Readers,
This week we continue our prose series with an excerpt from Adam Zagajewski's Slight Exaggeration, translated by Clare Cavanagh (Farrar, Straus and Giroux):
"I can't write poems in recent weeks either. It's not the first time it's happened. And it's not worth going on about either. There's not much to tell. Karol Berger found something Victor Hugo said on the subjectÂhe told me about it as we were walking in Paris, in the 16ème. When someone asked him how hard it was to write poetry, he answered, 'When you can write it, itÂs easy, when you can't, it's impossible.'"
Look for it here.
Enjoy this week's poems!
Warmest regards,
Don Selby & Diane Boller
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News and reviews from around the web, updated daily: Terrance Hayes introduces a poem by Michelle Whittaker. (The New York Times) Housman County: Into the Heart of England, by Peter Parker, reviewed by Alan Riding. (The New York Times) New collections by Tara Bergin, Elaine Feeney, and Siobhán Campbell reviewed by John McAuliffe. (The Irish Times) John Quinn reflects on the legacy of "the soldier-poet Francis Ledwidge, the centenary of whose death occurs on July 31st." (The Irish Times) Louis Menand on Michael Robbins's Equipment for Living: On Poetry and Pop Music and more. (The New Yorker) The Songs We Know Best: John Ashbery's Early Life, by Karin Roffman, reviewed by Mark Ford. (The Guardian) And more...4. New Arrivals
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The Humility of the Brutes, Ron Smith (Louisiana State University Press) The Darkness of Snow, Frank Ormsby (Wake Forest University Press) Rocket Fantastic, Gabrielle Calvocoressi (Persea Books) Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016, Frank Bidart (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) The Silence That Remains: Selected Poems, Ghassan Zaqtan, tr. Fady Joudah (Copper Canyon Press) The Unaccompanied, Simon Armitage (Alfred A. Knopf) Bad Summon, Philip Schaefer (University of Utah Press) Reassurance in Negative Space, Elizabyth A. Hiscox (Word Galaxy Press) Manhattanite, Aaron Poochigian (Able Muse Press) A Year of Mourning: Poems 271-322 of Petrarch's Rerum vulgarium fragmenta, Petrarch, tr. Lee Harlin Bahan (Able Muse Press) Whiteout, Jessica Goodfellow (University of Alaska Press) The Up and Down of Feet: Poems 1994-2010, Elke Erb, tr. Rosmarie Waldrop (Burning Deck) Triste Tristan and Other Poems, Paol Keineg, tr. Laura Marris and Rosemarie Waldrop (Burning Deck)5. This Week’s Featured Poets
The work of the following poets will appear as Today's Poem on the days indicated:
Monday - Craig Santos Perez
Tuesday - Lance Larsen
Wednesday - Robert Hedin
Thursday - Sarah Passino
Friday - Scott Cairns
Saturday - Tim Bowling
Sunday - Rick Campbell
6. Featured Poets July 24, 2017 - July 30, 2017
These and other past featured poets may be found in our archive:
Monday - Dean Rader
Tuesday - Ange Mlinko
Wednesday - Grace Schulman
Thursday - Alessandra Lynch
Friday - Philip Fried
Saturday - Grace Bauer
Sunday - Peter Cole
7. Last Year’s Featured Poets
These poems will be retired from our archive during the coming week.
Robin Robertson, "In Easgann Wood"
Alison Stone, "Pandora"
HÃ¥kan Sandell / tr. Bill Coyle, "Requiem for a Returnee"
Jim Davis, "Landscape with Cesare Pavese"
Nina Lindsay, "My Bare Feet"
Stephen Kampa, "Meant, in Time, to Crack"
Juan J. Morales, "Gift"
8. Poem From Last Year
Landscape with Cesare Pavese
    Cento of Disaffections
No telling why I was there in the fields that evening.
The drunk mechanic is happy to be in the ditch.
A gust of wind rattles the arbor. The horse shudders.
The boy raises his eyes to the terrible clouds.
The whole world is covered in plants that suffer.
Only the old man knows what really goes on at night.
All of a sudden it's cold, leaves let go of their branches.
The moment has come when everything stops.
The boy's afraid to look at himself in the dark.
People with bodies should let them be seen.
And the boys are climbing all over the scaffolding.
Then silence again. We were made for this.
We'll go down into the maelstrom mute.
And somebody now is walking silently past.
Jim Davis
Bellevue Literary Review
Spring 2016
Copyright © 2016 by Jim Davis
All rights reserved.
Reproduced by Poetry Daily with permission
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