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Dear Readers,
This week our prose series continues with Olivia Lott's review of Noontimes Won, by Tristan Tzara, translated by Heather Green, from the September issue of Kenyon Review:
"Tristan TzaraÂs name may be synonymous with the world of Dada: the radical artÂor, rather, anti-artÂmovement of the 1920s European avant-garde. DadaÂs appeal tends to overshadow the hugely influential role that his poetry has played among international circles of experimental writers. This is perhaps most evident in the fact that we have surprisingly little access to TzaraÂs post-Dada work in English translation. Simply put:Â Noontimes Won, translated by Heather Green, is a collection that readers of radical poetry have been waiting for."
Look for it here.
Enjoy this week's poems!
Warmest regards,
Don Selby & Diane Boller
2. Sponsor Messages
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Sixteen Rivers Press announces a new anthology: America, We Call Your Name: Poems of Resistance and Resilience
In this book, over 200 poetsÂfrom Virgil and Dante to Claudia Rankine and Mai Der Vang, from Milton to Merwin, from Po Chü-i to Robin Coste LewisÂcall out to our country. “These poets have an urgent message to share with you,” writes Camille T. Dungy in the foreword. “This message is brand new, and it is also eternal. Read carefully. What you learn here might just save your life.” http://www.sixteenrivers.org
2019 UNT Rilke Prize
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3. Poetry News Links
News and reviews from around the web, updated daily: "I've got a few of these stories" - Tom Gatti reports on an afternoon with Clive James, Tom Stoppard and Julian Barnes. (New Statesman) Kevin Young introduces a multimedia feature of excerpts from Clive James's The River in the Sky. (The New Yorker) V. Joshua Adams on Sympathy for the Traitor: A Translation Manifesto, by Mark Polizzotti. (Los Angeles Review of Books) Rebecca Foust introduces "A Day of Peace," "Freud Before Bed," and "Distortion Formulas," by Kathleen Winter. (Women's Voices for Change) Rita Dove introduces a poem by Elizabeth Spires. (The New York Times Magazine) Who Is Mary Sue?, by Sophie Collins, reviewed by Jade Cuttle. (The Guardian) A Blank Verse Films film adaptation of David Mason's "Hangman." (Blank Verse Films) And more...4. New Arrivals
These new arrivals are available for purchase via Poetry Daily/Amazon.com.
Be With, Forrest Gander (New Directions) Dissolve, Sherwin Bitsui (Copper Canyon Press) Dangerous Household Items, David Orr (Copper Canyon Press) Anaphora, Kevin Goodan (Alice James Books) America, We Call Your Name: Poems of Resistance and Resilience , (Sixteen Rivers Press) Let the House of Body Fall, Sara J. Grossman (New Issues Press) Each Tree Could Hold a Noose or a House, Nina Puro (New Issues Press) Quartet, C. Violet Eaton (Ahsahta Press) Assisted Living, Erin Murphy (Brick Road Poetry Press) For Hunger, Margaret Ronda (Saturnalia) The Identity Thief, Derek Mong (Saturnalia)5. This Week’s Featured Poets
The work of the following poets will appear as Today's Poem on the days indicated:
Monday - Forrest Gander
Tuesday - Mary Ruefle
Wednesday - George Elliott Clarke
Thursday - Maged Zaher
Friday - Max Ritvo
Saturday -Nadya Radulova, tr. Maria Vassileva
Sunday -J. Michael Martinez
6. Featured Poets October 1 - October 7, 2018
These and other past featured poets may be found in our archive:
Monday - Edward Hirsch
Tuesday - James Arthur
Wednesday -Mia Ayumi Malhotra
Thursday - Jessica Traynor
Friday - Rafael Campo
Saturday - Elizabeth Tornes
Sunday -Albert Goldbarth
7. Last Year’s Featured Poets
These poems will be retired from our archive during the coming week.
Marcus Wicker, "Morning in the Burbs"
Mark Waldron, "How scrubbed-up clean"
William Logan, Two Poems
John Freeman, "Wimbledon"
Ted Kooser, "Luggage"
Declan Ryan, "Happy Days"
Harry Bauld, "In the Street without My Glasses"
8. Poem From Last Year
How scrubbed-up clean
are our spirits, these loquacious silver gods who glide at
some safe distance above their rank and proletarian bodies.
Foul though fascinating landscapes they are that they
traverse, besmirched with armpits and fruity genitalia
and belching gobs and those impulsive blurting sphincters
in whose hot updrafts they might ascend and soar.
O, but our spirits are so lustrous, so hairless, so advanced
in their glass-bottomed flying machines which run on
just about nothing! What quick and icy notions they have
that slot into one another like the tightest clocks, and how
they lick their lips as they gaze down in anticipatory glee,
for though they would not themselves wish to rough it,
they certainly will peep through their bedroom
windows, each a jiggling voyeur of its own ardent body
when that body has chanced upon another, and the pair
of them have knuckled down to their immersive work.
Mark Waldron
Poetry
October 2017
Copyright © 2017 by Mark Waldron
All rights reserved.
Reproduced by Poetry Daily with permission
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