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GLUT! PICKING (OFF) QUIETISTS AND POST-MODERNS
Ron Silliman: the poets, there are too many of them, yes? As numbers overwhelm, the post-modern panic continues. Marjorie Perloff began the stampede with her recent essay, “Poetry on the Brink.” Ron...
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DON’T BE IN LOVE SO I CAN BE IN LOVE
Don’t be in love, so I can be in love, And darling, for you, I will do the same. A sunny love is never deep. Real love makes us weep And misery is better when we have someone to blame. If an aching in...
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VIDA SHOCKER: ARE WOMEN TO BLAME?
It’s idiotic to blame a whole gender, isn’t it? Well, OK, let’s do it… Even animals can count. Humans, one would think, would be a little more savvy at interpreting data. We’ve seen the latest raw...
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THE HERESY OF THE ACCESSIBLE
Aristotle. The Greeks: they keep the moderns and post-moderns honest. C. Dale Young, in a recent article in the American Poetry Review, writes: We live in a strange time, a time when the word...
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THIS BALLAD
The lyric is half a dialogue, The song, a character’s utterance in a play; The sun was shining when I entered the cinema, The movie was long; what happened to the day? My poem was a burning candle, My...
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I HAVE NO PLAN
I have no plan, I have no adventure that is bold, Except to love you Until I get old. I have no plan, No life with excitement in it, Except to adore you Every minute. No strategy Has built the pillars...
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A POEM’S LANGUAGE IS—LANGUAGE
Tony Hoagland: A Quietist. But always starting trouble! A Tony Hoagland “mic-grabbing” tantrum (?) at AWP Boston in the name of accessible poetry against obscure, academic, show-off poetry has...
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THOUGH IT CREPT UPON ME SLOWLY
Though it crept upon me slowly, My life fell to a power That spread like a growing storm, That grew like a growing flower, That swelled like a swelling tide, Which drowned bridegroom and bride, And...
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SCARRIET MARCH MADNESS 2013: THE SOUL OF ROMANTICSM
To amuse our readers, each year, Scarriet puts together a bracket of 64 poets/poems for a “March Madness” Tournament of Criticism that figures up winners, losers, and finally one champion. It’s...
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ANIS!! LEFT-WING HUFF POST CRITIC OF THE TWITTER AGE
Anis Shivani might be a bitter guy, but as a literary critic at the Huffington Post he exemplifies the sort of high-brow hating which pleases like a good nerdy fuck. Let’s say this much of criticism...
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MORE SCARRIET MADNESS NEWS: FILLING THE 2013 BRACKETS
The Romantic brackets for this year’s tourney are filling up with haunting poems, some known, some neglected. All the poets in this year’s hoop dreams tournament have one thing in common. They have no...
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HERE COMES THE MADNESS
Compared to the “Romantic” Byron, the last modern poet, the Modernists are just morose. More Bracket news for Scarriet’s March Madness 2013 Byron’s entry is the first 6 stanzas of the third Canto of...
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POETRY AND KISSES
When the heart of the beloved melts, As lover moves in with poetry and kisses, She feels again the syllables she misses. Poetry is perfect, song would be too loud; Her skin receives the sighing words...
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CLASSICAL SELECTIONS UP, WITH WORLD PREMIERE SCARRIET TRANSLATION OF CATULLUS!
Have you heard? We’re going to be in Scarriet’s March Madness!! Six very old poems have made the cut for this year’s Madness, featuring Romanticism, old and new. Read them as you drink old wine....
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RENAISSIANCE AND EARLY ROMANTICISM READY TO RUMBLE
The world has always had room for Romanticism and meditative gloom! And don’t worry! Soon we’ll have the actual brackets! THEY FLEE FROM ME THAT SOMETIME DID ME SEEK Thomas Wyatt (1503-1542) They...
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MORE ROMANTIC POEMS JOIN THE MADNESS!
Here’s a look at some more poems selected for this year’s Madness, with Romanticsm, Old & New, the theme. Scarriet will include some living authors as well, as old will face off against new....
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THE 2013 SCARRIET MARCH MADNESS BRACKETS!!
Here they are!! Competition will start immediately! The four number one seeds: Goethe, Keats, Shelley, and Coleridge, no surprise there… Let the Road to the Final Four begin!! ROMANTICISM: OLD AND NEW...
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GOETHE! NORTH NO.1 SEED ROUTS DONALD JUSTICE, 81-57.
Goethe’s “The Holy Longing” advances easily. The painting scene in 19th century France, like the life of drama in ancient Athens, was heavily competitive, judged and awarded, and Criticism, even in...
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TWO BATTLES IN THE NORTH: FROST V. CAMPION, CATULLUS V. RIMBAUD!
Rimbaud: Goes Against Catullus in Round One Robert Frost is the no. 2 seed in the North—right behind Goethe’s no. 1 seed, ‘The Holy Longing,” the Romantic tour de force by the German titan. The...
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TWO MODERNS, LARKIN, ASHBERY, IN MADNESS TANGLED
Can Ashbery go further in Scarriet’s 2013 Romanticism tourney? Is the ancient quarrel—who is better?—between ‘ancients and moderns’ a conceit of those ancients who are gone, or a conceit of we...
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