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from ISSUE XXXII August 2021
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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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Witnesses of Remembrance by Kunwar Narain (translated by Apurva Narain) (Eka, 2021) reviewed by Mathura
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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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Featured Poet
Forrest Gander (born 1956) is an American poet, translator, essayist, and novelist. The A.K. Seaver Professor Emeritus of Literary Arts & Comparative Literature at Brown University, Gander won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 2019 for Be With and is chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His new collection Twice Alive came out in May this year at New Directions.
Editor's Choice
Triin Paja lives in rural Estonia. Her poetry has appeared in Prairie Schooner, Portland Review, Pleiades, Cincinnati Review, and Room, among others. She is the author of two poetry collections in Estonian, Nõges (Värske Raamat, 2018) and Ürglind (Tuum, forthcoming) and has won The Betti Alver Literary Award and The Juhan Liiv Prize for Poetry. Her poetry in English has been nominated for a Pushcart, Bettering American Poetry, Best of the Net, Best New Poets, and the Rhysling Award.
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Louise Dupré, born in Sherbrooke (Quebec, Canada), has published twenty books, which have received many awards. Plus haut que les flammes (Beyond the flames) and La main hantée (The Haunted Hand) both won the Governor General’s Award for poetry. In December 2014, she was appointed to the Order of Canada "for her contributions to Quebec literature as a poet, novelist, playwright, essayist and professor."
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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).]
