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from ISSUE XXXI December 2020
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"Poetry is concerned with using with abusing, with losing with wanting, with denying with avoiding with adoring with replacing the noun. It is doing that always doing that, doing that and doing nothing but that. Poetry is doing nothing but using losing refusing and pleasing and betraying and caressing nouns. That is what poetry does, that is what poetry has to do no matter what kind of poetry it is. And there are a great many kinds of poetry." |
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editors' Recommendations
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November: Poems by Jaspreet Singh
(Bayeaux Arts, 2017)
reviewed by Christine Wiesenthal
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Waiting for The Light by Alicia Ostriker (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2017)
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Between Two Gardens by Laura Quinn Guidry (Alamo Bay Press, 2017)
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Tidal Events- Selected Poems by Mária Ferenčuhová reviewed by Anna Blasiak
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Wings to Soar High, by Amir Or reviewed by Seth Michelson
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War Music – An Account of Homer’s Iliad, Faber and Faber, edited by Christopher Reid
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The Singer of Alleppey by Pramila Venkateswaran, Shanti Arts LLC (2018)
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Ivan Štrpka (30.06.1944) is a Slovak poet. With his kindred spirits, the poets Ivan Laučík and Peter Repka, in the 1960s Štrpka founded an individualistic poetic group, “The Lonely Runners”. He wrote a manifesto for it, which was officially banned. The matters at issue were freedom of thinking, living and making art, the responsibility of the individual, and rejection of communist dictatorship and censorship.
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"A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is; otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named."
[Friedrich Von Schlegel (1772-1829), German philosopher. Aphorism 114 in Selected Aphorisms from the Athenaeum (1798), translated by Ernst Behler and Roman Struc, Dialogue on Poetry and Literary Aphorisms, Pennsylvania University Press (1968).]
