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IS POETRY BECOMING STUPID AND RACIST?
What to make of this recent article in The Atlantic, which finds that any critique of contemporary Letters is, by definition, an attack by an angry white male? Joel Breuklander in The Atlantic takes...
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YOU LIE IN SHELLEY’S ARMS, CONDEMNED
You lie in Shelley’s arms, condemned, In the sweetest bed, Far from the public sun. Banished by the morality of the crowd, You fear your love-making is too loud, For with discovery, All you built with...
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YOU ARE NOT SYLVIA PLATH: A NEW SCARRIET POEM
He took his love to Sylvia, They loved all day. They didn’t want to do anything else. So he went away. I hated you a poem, A poem like no other, I hated you a poem, Because you were my lover. Why...
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SCARRIET MARCH MADNESS, THE ROMANTICISM VERSION, CONTINUES: HOAGLAND V. PLATH
“A man in black with a Meinkampf look” The biography of the poet—how important is it? For Romantic Poetry, it is of paramount importance, for Humanist and Renaissance and Platonist reasons—the poem is...
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NEW SCARRIET POEM
The Sleeping Lovers “How wonderful is Death” -Shelley, Queen Mab Too much desire and we tire Of desire for desire. Too much desiring, and weary, Still loving, we are leery Of doom from a fiery desire;...
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HOW MUCH THAT DIES RETURNS
Look how a sadness has become a madness, Yet love, the madness, cured me— You were more alone than alone, But when I spoke, you heard me. Look at the beauty reflected in the glass. It will pass, it...
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IT IS TODAY
This day is the best day. It is better than all the other days. It is today. They were good, but they didn’t stay. This day is the best day. The wall calendar will sing of May, The clock face will...
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IS THE OLD MATERIAL/SPIRITUAL DIVIDE LEGIT?
Yes it is. And here’s why. In thinking generally about anything–and all creative thinking is general thinking–it is always better to think in dualities. If the universe has a fundamental building...
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REALLY NEW SCARRIET POEM
Form is her attire; She leaves color for the younger ones. The argument for desire Is as simple as the Arno that runs Brown and sometimes white into the sea. As simple as fire, Simple and easy. Form...
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THEY COME
They come from nurseries into college, Looking old before their time, Wearing old peoples’ clothes and smoking. Weren’t you just in the playroom Trying out nursery rhymes in a little girl’s voice? And...
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SILLIMAN’S LINKS
We thought it might be amusing for Scarriet to take a full tour of Ron Silliman’s Poetry Links. Ron provides this service every couple weeks, an internet feast of what’s happening in the poetry/art...
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SILLIMAN LINKS, PART 2
21. Scottish Poetry Library blog mourns the death of young singer-songwriter, poet Lise Sinclair. We do, too. 22. Boston Book Review interviews Maureen McLane, author of Her Poets, chapters of which...
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SILLIMAN’S LINKS (WHEW!) PART 3
And the critical look at the Silliman Links of 8/12/13 continues… 61. Galleycat reports that “USA ranked 23rd in World for Time Spent Reading” which we have a feeling is one of those stats that means...
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SILLIMAN’S LINKS PART 4 (go, SILLIMAN go!)
83. NY Times Sunday Book Review presents Story Coaster, a cute cartoon drawing of a standard fiction—”climax, falling action”—analysis depicted by a roller coaster. har har 84. artspace writes on...
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WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE? (NEW SCARRIET POEM)
Who Are These People? Who are these people Who think they can be objective? They cannot, unless in a jury trial Objectivity is handed to them as a mission. Left alone, they pursue a revery of sorts,...
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HOW CAN I TELL (NEW POEM FROM SCARRIET)
How Can I Tell How can I tell you how my day was? A day is a thousand years. Charm always, always uses less words. Only simple gestures are certain. What then shall I do with excess, Which is at the...
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YOU KNEW IT WAS COMING: CAMILLE PAGLIA LECTURES MILEY CYRUS
Time magazine’s Camille Paglia article headlines with “Cyrus’s derivative stunt reveals artistically bankrupt musical culture,” and one hardly needs to read what predictably follows from everyone’s...
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KENNETH GOLDSMITH IS NOT A CONCEPTUALIST!
Kenneth Goldsmith: Not one concept in his head. If you are really curious about beer, the expert will tell you there are only two kinds: ale and lager. Likewise, there’s only two kinds of wine: red...
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THERE REALLY WAS A FIRE
There really was a fire More important than the sun Cooking us without incident, Causing night rains to come. There really was a fire In our muscles, in our worldly brains, Causing age and...
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THE NEWEST SCARRIET POEM!
I GET NO REST Floods have taken my grave, I get no rest. A poem is parked In my heart which beats in my breast. I get no rest. East wind and chilly rain. I get no rest. A poem promised Sun, said to...
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