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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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DETERMINED TO BE A FALCON (–a new scarriet poem–)
Determined to be a falcon, I flew Somewhere into midnight— The happiness of my days were few— But saw death and flames’ lurid light Stretching skyward, embarrassing a night I always found quiet, With...
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WAS EDGAR ALLAN POE MURDERED?
It is still October, the anniversary month of Edgar Allan Poe’s mysterious end. Re-reading international best-selling author Albert Jack’s piece on Poe’s death got us thinking again: the crucial facts...
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Ben Mazer’s “Poetry Mathematics” and the 30 Best Poetry Essays of All Time
First, the List: 1. REPUBLIC (BKS, 3, 10)- PLATO A truism, but agree or not, every poet must come to terms with Plato. 2. THE FOUR AGES OF POETRY- THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK This essay rocks. A genuinely...
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THOSE WACKY NEW CRITICS AND THEIR ‘INTENTIONAL FALLACY’ FALLACY
New Critic John Crowe Ransom: the American face of Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot All poets and critics do one of two things: mystify or clarify. The New Critics were mystics. The mystic’s strategy is...
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ADVICE TO POETS
Don’t find your voice—find the voice; Write about what you’ll never know; Pay attention to grammar; Find the killer of Edgar Poe. In your rhythm, imitate a hammer, Or like a piano, be soft and slow;...
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JOHN ASHBERY IS BURNING ALL HIS POEMS
John Ashbery: Was Plato right? Are the best poets crazy? You know it will happen: the inevitable revulsion: the coy poem that doesn’t mean anything, but washes over us with a million possible...
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POETRY: IT’S THE SAME OLD SONG
The Four Tops: Examined different meanings and the self-reflexive. Oh, the heavy apparatus of learning poetry. Lecturing for two hours on the difficult subject of poetry is easy—for the inspired...
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THE OLD ROMANTICS WHOM THE MODERNS DESPISE
The old Romantics whom the Moderns despise Operate clandestinely in our skies, Pray to Apollo, lie in long grass, The happiest knights, beloved of a lass Tender, smiling, and virtuous. They care not...
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YOU’RE STUPID AND EZRA POUND IS NOT
Ezra Pound: Did a fatal error cripple the Modernist revolution? Poetry today is in the worst state imaginable: 1) not popular, 2) not respected, and 3) not understood. “Not popular” would not hurt so...
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THE CONTROVERSIAL FRANZ WRIGHT: PUNK OR PROPHET?
Meg Kearney: is she the victim? Here is the Franz Wright letter generating all the controversy: Meg Kearney, in response to your invitation, insinuating I would like the writing program at Pine Manor:...
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WHAT IS POETRY, ANYWAY?
The way to see a star is to attend to its ray. We may be loved for our ray–our poetry, for instance–and not our star–our physique and face. The civilized cultivates the ray. So what is poetry? What is...
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BURSTING ANOTHER MODERNIST MYTH: THE MUSIC OF POETRY
We hear it all the time these days: if speech is musical, it’s not serious. Since the Modernist revolution and its Creative Writing Progam put Keats in a museum, the absolute worst thing a poem can...
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FRANZ WRIGHT GOES OFF ON MEG KEARNEY, PART TWO
Everyone agrees education is a powerful tool, and reading and writing is perhaps the most important educational piece of all. My 10 year old daughter is already writing adventure stories with...
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RASULA AND CHASAR: HEAD BUTT OVER THE POETRY GLUT
We already have a glut of this ‘poetry glut’ nonsense and “Glut Reactions,” a conversation between two author/professors, Jed Rasula and Mike Chasar in the Boston Review, highlights its nonsensical...
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MARJORIE PERLOFF: HEY, DUMMIES, I’M A YEATS SCHOLAR!
Perloff: Her Poundian agenda faltering, Yeats comes to the rescue! The Boston Review’s recent symposium (December 6, 2012) re-visiting Marjorie Perloff’s “Poetry on the Brink” (May/June 2012) is...
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IS RON SILLIMAN SANE?
The history of poetry is never the history of the best poems, but rather the history of change in poetry. —Ron Silliman Ron Silliman took a break from his cutting and pasting video links on his...
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DESPITE THE UNIVERSE’S LENGTH: NEW SCARRIET POEM
The stars are lights that give no light. They tease, but do not aid, our sight. Peering at the stars at night, Knowing stars partake of light, We see stars, but faking bright, Only points of ruined...
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