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James Panero of the THE NEW CRITERION talks about the “wave of rising rents” in New York City that has forced artists to move to the “bleakest corners” of the city, by analyzing the urban renaissance of Bushick Brooklyn.
This month we offer A MISCELLANY OF BOOK REVIEWS, from classic English crime fiction by Elizabeth Daly to the re-issuance of Harvard’s disastrous The Notebooks of Robert Frost,”to Canadian poet Kenneth Sherman, who reminds readers in his essay collection, that poetry offers the deepest address to the hard truths of our own life experiences. Finally, a weekly roundup of noteworthy reviews from other sources from the website, THE SECOND PASS. Happy reading!
Kentucky is creating a bill to teach the Bible in public high schools . . . . The question is, is the Bible a legitimate piece of literature and therefore, should the bill pass, or is this merely a “back door” opportunity that will eventually usurp the separation of church and state?
“Books should offend you,” a professor told my literature class 30 years ago, when I started college. “They should make you squirm and sweat. They should keep you up at night.”
He paused for effect. “Have a nice a day,” he concluded.
Everybody laughed, of course. But the joke was on us. Americans want to feel good, and they want the same for their kids. So we try to protect them from books that hurt.
Ronny Someck is an Israeli-Iraqi poet who brings his readers into his own memories and combines them with the everyday reality of people, which is why his work has been translated into over a dozen languages.
Date & Time: Fri., June 4, 2010 @ 8:00-10:00 PM Location: Caffè Lena, 47 Phila St., Saratoga Springs, NY (518) 883-6394 Admission: $12.00 Taylor Mali is one of the most well-known poets to have emerged from the poetry slam movement and one of the few people in the world to have no job other than [...]
William Carlos Williams
“Poets are damned but they are not blind, they see with the eyes of the angels.”
Williams Carlos Williams was an American poet as well as a pediatrician and general practitioner of medicine who “worked harder at being a writer than he did at being a physician.” Fortunately for us, during his long lifetime, Williams excelled at both.
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