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Who wants a 2013 National Poetry Month Poster?

Who wants a 2013 National Poetry Month Poster?

Joseph Ceravolo. Whose Collected Poetry is just out from Wesleyan.

Joseph Ceravolo. Whose Collected Poetry is just out from Wesleyan.

“All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace” by Richard Brautigan

“All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace” by Richard Brautigan

Bern Porter.

Bern Porter.

Aram Saroyan from Coffee Coffee

Aram Saroyan from Coffee Coffee

newdirectionspublishing: 99: Number of exercises in the original edition (1947) of Raymond Queneau’s Exercises in Style. 28: Number of additional variations by Queneau, available in English for the first time in the edition just published by New Directions. The original 99 are taken from in Barbara Wright’s 1958 translation; Christopher Gordon Clark rendered the 28 new additions. 10: Variations commissioned by New Directions for this edition from contemporary authors, including, among others, Jonathan Lethem, Harry Mathews, Lynne Tillman, and Frederic Tuten. 137 (in case you aren’t keeping track): Total number of exercises in this book. 3: Number of main characters in the book (a peevish young man with a long neck, another older male bus passenger, a friend of the young man’s), none of whom is named until the very last word of the 99th exercise. BOMBLOG: Queneau by Numbers by Raphael Rubinstein

newdirectionspublishing:

99: Number of exercises in the original edition (1947) of Raymond Queneau’s Exercises in Style.

28: Number of additional variations by Queneau, available in English for the first time in the edition just published by New Directions. The original 99 are taken from in Barbara Wright’s 1958 translation; Christopher Gordon Clark rendered the 28 new additions.

10: Variations commissioned by New Directions for this edition from contemporary authors, including, among others, Jonathan Lethem, Harry Mathews, Lynne Tillman, and Frederic Tuten.

137 (in case you aren’t keeping track): Total number of exercises in this book.

3: Number of main characters in the book (a peevish young man with a long neck, another older male bus passenger, a friend of the young man’s), none of whom is named until the very last word of the 99th exercise.

BOMBLOG: Queneau by Numbers by Raphael Rubinstein

Happy Birthday, Louis Zukofsky.

Happy Birthday, Louis Zukofsky.

(Source: The New York Times)

Sharon Olds has won the T. S. Eliot prize for Stag’s Leap, a deeply personal project which she says was inspired in large part by her husband leaving her for a younger woman. The collection, which took Olds fifteen years to write, was praised by the judges as “a tremendous book of grace and gallantry which crowns the career of a world-class poet.” Olds is the first female American poet to win the Eliot prize since its founding, in 1993. 

Sharon Olds has won the T. S. Eliot prize for Stag’s Leap, a deeply personal project which she says was inspired in large part by her husband leaving her for a younger woman. The collection, which took Olds fifteen years to write, was praised by the judges as “a tremendous book of grace and gallantry which crowns the career of a world-class poet.” Olds is the first female American poet to win the Eliot prize since its founding, in 1993. 

(via theparisreview)

Roof Magazine has been freed. Into .pdfs. (Thanks to Danny Snelson & Craig Dworkin)

Roof Magazine has been freed. Into .pdfs.

(Thanks to Danny Snelson & Craig Dworkin)

jenbenka: Wishes from Whitman’s “Leaves of Grass”… for 2013 or 2,013,000. (With backdrop by Michael Bonfiglio) 

jenbenka:

Wishes from Whitman’s “Leaves of Grass”… for 2013 or 2,013,000. (With backdrop by Michael Bonfiglio)