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NEW SCARRIET POEM: BUT MOST OF ALL I LOVE
But Most Of All, I Love You will see me absent-mindedly failing to be Aware of creatures talking directly to me, And you think: have I the right to be this free? Should I be allowed to flounder in...
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POETRY SHOUTS THE OBVIOUS
Poetry shouts the obvious to deaf ears— It’s not a professor studying an obscure poem for years— No, a poem shouts the obvious to every one of your peers— It’s not a cabal of self-righteous queers, A...
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I’M THE FIRST
I’m the first to lie awake And the last to fall asleep. At first love makes you happy And then it makes you weep. Why is love unhappy? It’s easy to say, The first time is when you cry when your lover...
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EDGAR LEE MASTERS AND EDNA MILLAY: THEY SUCK!
Edgar Lee Masters: Not sexy, but wrote prose poetry before WC Williams Fads are born of flux, yet to their followers they’re as real as steel, or iron. Tell a member of the hardcore poetry community...
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THE GRANDE SCHOOL OF POETRY
Ben Mazer—the new Byronism of the Grande school? The disgrace of seeming pre-Modern is a stigma created by the Modernists themselves, the small clique which dominated poetry for most of the 20th...
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IMAGINATION: A NO FRILLS DEFENSE
Imagination is not just one thing we have—it is the only thing we have. Imagination is how we experience the world. No other person or thing experiences it for us. Only we experience the world—which is...
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IS MARJORIE PERLOFF SOMEONE’S CRAZY AUNT?
Perloff: Keep your status quo away from my avant-garde! The distinguished professor and critic, Marjorie Perloff, recently published an essay, “Poetry on the Brink,” which has made quite an impression...
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NEW END OF SUMMER SCARRIET POEM!!
Most Of The World Is Already Made Most of the world is already made, Christ! Moments of summer by the sea Cannot be topped by you or me. Light belongs to the sun and invades the shade. Most of the...
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MEET ME
Meet me where my eyes meet yours And jealousy is far away, Writhing on distant shores. Meet me in the lands of earth, Where comedians cannot make fun Of mountain silence and slanting sun. Meet me where...
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THE THREE TYPES OF POETRY
I like discovering new poems. I almost said new poets, but that is too personal: poetry is marvelous because it allows us to experience human delight without all the messy and inconvenient aspects of...
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HAPPINESS IS THE STANDARD
Poets know intelligent and reasonably educated people who never read literature and are content in family, career, and home; confronted with the fact of this happiness gives poets, gives those absorbed...
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IS POLITICAL INTRACTABILITY GOOD FOR LITERATURE?
Santayana: Born in Madrid in 1863, died in Rome in 1952; at Harvard with Eliot and Stevens. We don’t see how those who are morally and politically simple, no matter well-intentioned they are in matters...
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GINSBERG V. GINSBERG
Was Allen Ginsberg’s father, published poet, Louis Ginsberg, as good as his famous son? Scarriet presents father and son: Louis Ginsberg (1885-1976) and Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997). From Louis...
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WHEN I SAW WHAT I HAD LOVED
When I saw what I had loved, I understood the wide sea— As rolling and wide as mathematics, or poetry— Knows less of love than I, and could not love poetry like me. When I saw what I had loved, And...
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RADICAL FEMINISM, SEX, CONCEPTION, AND POETRY
Shulamith Firestone. How far has feminism come? Is it any closer to understanding sex? We at Scarriet have a lot on our mind: feminism, sex, conception, and how it all connects to poetry. Shulamith...
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THE RIGHT-WING AVANT-GARDE
Next year is the 100th anniversary of the Armory Show: Duchamp’s ”Nude Descending a Staircase” was a big hit. The avant-garde is generally thought to be radical, not conservative, especially when we...
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A POET SPEAKS TO HIS LOVE—A NEW POEM FROM SCARRIET
How did she love when the love she found Demanded silence, and not one small sound Was allowed in her heavens or on her ground? She did not love, for silence engenders fear; Silence kills love if the...
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POETRY AND PARTISAN ZEALOTRY
Should the poet ‘take positions?’ We say, invariably not, for partisanship always implies progress or improvement and such a position can never be timeless—since improvements always involve present...
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BORROWED CLOTHES
Stephen Burt: Doesn’t look great in a jacket. Prefers wearing a blouse. We were amused to read the recent piece on Stephen Burt in the New York Times with the large color photo of Burt, the...
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NEW POEM FROM SCARRIET: EXCEPT BY LOVING YOU
When I have your love, I want your love, And when I want your love, I have it, too. How do I solve this riddle Except by loving you? When you leave me, love, You stay here, love, And when you remain,...
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