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Reginald Shepherd's Blog: August 2008
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A blog about poetry, literature, and art, that occasionally engages other issues of importance and interest. Tuesday, August 26, 2008. On Alvin Feinman’s “True Night”. Edited by Kevin Prufer and Joy Katz, and in my essay collection. Orpheus in the Bronx. So it is midnight, and all. The angels of ordinary day gone,. The abiding absence between day and day. Come like true and only rain. Comes instant, eternal, again:. As though an air had opened without sound. In which all things are sanctified,. Or still ...
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Reginald Shepherd's Blog: May 2008
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A blog about poetry, literature, and art, that occasionally engages other issues of importance and interest. Thursday, May 22, 2008. Speech After Long Silence. My recent extended absence from this blog, and from the Poetry Foundation's Harriet blog, has been due to severe illness (the worst of my life, including my colon cancer) and a long hospital stay. There is always the pain: dull, sharp, throbbing, stabbing, gradually building or suddenly overwhelming, ranging from the persistently uncomfortable to ...
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Reginald Shepherd's Blog: Taking Dictation from a Martian Muse
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A blog about poetry, literature, and art, that occasionally engages other issues of importance and interest. Sunday, January 7, 2007. Taking Dictation from a Martian Muse. I like the idea of poetry as dictation, because writing does feel like that sometimes. I’ve had at least one poem that was literally dictated to me—I woke up and the poem was reciting itself in my head, though I had to come up with my own ending. Don't we all? You've dived headfirst into blogging, that's for sure! Orpheus in the Bronx.
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Reginald Shepherd's Blog: July 2008
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A blog about poetry, literature, and art, that occasionally engages other issues of importance and interest. Monday, July 14, 2008. In Memoriam Alvin Feinman, 1929-2008. I am still in the hospital, awaiting surgery on an abdominal fistula that refuses to heal on its own—quite the contrary—but it’s very important to me to have Robert post this piece. In Memoriam Alvin Feinman, 1929-2008. I love all of Alvin’s poems, but this one in particular, the first poem of his I ever read, is one of my favorites.
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Reginald Shepherd's Blog: January 2009
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A blog about poetry, literature, and art, that occasionally engages other issues of importance and interest. Tuesday, January 27, 2009. National Book Critics Award Finalist. Reginald's essay collection,. Orpheus in the Bronx: Essays on Identity, Politics, and the Freedom of Poetry. Links to this post. National Book Critics Circle. Orpheus in the Bronx. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Orpheus in the Bronx. Orpheus in the Bronx. National Book Critics Award Finalist. Pensacola, Florida, United States. Squanderm...
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Reginald Shepherd's Blog: June 2008
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A blog about poetry, literature, and art, that occasionally engages other issues of importance and interest. Friday, June 27, 2008. On the New American Poetry. The question of what a tradition is and who is entitled to lay claim to it is quite alive these days. Many contemporary poets trace their literary ancestry back to what have come to be called the New American Poetries, after Donald M. Allen’s influential anthology. The New American Poetry. The Poetics of the New American Poetry. 147) This implies ...
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Reginald Shepherd's Blog: September 2008
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A blog about poetry, literature, and art, that occasionally engages other issues of importance and interest. Tuesday, September 30, 2008. Comments on “Kinds of Camouflage”. 1 Déjeuner, with Herbs. Then I am sitting naked on damp grass. It rained in my yesterday). While two white gentlemen. In black frock coats share lunch. Around me, passing chèvre, cold andouille,. And baguettes, passing bon mots. In French, in someone’s nineteenth century,. My muddled impression of one. I can’t. Be May; my skin responds.
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Reginald Shepherd's Blog: February 2009
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A blog about poetry, literature, and art, that occasionally engages other issues of importance and interest. Sunday, February 15, 2009. Kevin Prufer on Reginald. Following up on the recent announcement that Reginald's essay collection,. Orpheus in the Bronx. Has been named a finalist for the award in criticism by the National Book Critics Circle, NBCC board member Kevin Prufer has posted a short piece about Reginald on the NBCC blog. Links to this post. Orpheus in the Bronx. Sunday, February 8, 2009.
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Joan Houlihan: December 2007
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Poet, Critic, Educator. Friday, December 28, 2007. Looking for mr. elliptical. Since I’ve been asked by Chad Parmenter. To participate in a symposia on the subject of Elliptical Poetry, I’ve been pondering the meaning of ellipticism—in poetry and everywhere else. Stephen Burt applied the word to a handful of poets in the early ‘90s (see American Letters and Commentary, Issue #11 and, online, my interview with him in Perihelion. But the question I have is: what contemporary poetry is. Brinkmanship begets ...
