Olson’s Tombstone Blues
An email in my inbox this rainy morning led me to the site with the following press release. Thought I’d pass it on: For Immediate Release Dead Poets Society of America Contact Walter Skold: ...
Category: Obituaries
Stephen Kessler on George Hitchcock
Here is Stephen Kessler’s obit for George Hitchcock, as published yesterday in SantaCruz.com. George Hitchcock, 1914-2010 When I was an undergraduate and aspiring poet at school in upstate New York in the mid-1960s I...
Edwin Morgan (1920–2010)
Bill Sherman, in a comment to this morning’s post, informed me that the Scots poet/makar Edwin Morgan had passed at 90. You can read a first obit by the BBC here. Bill included the...
Against Tyrrany
This morning, reading about the English critic Frank Kermode‘s passing at ninety (here and here among many other places), I couldn’t help thinking back on Eric Mottram (who passed away at barely 70 nearly...
Tony Judt (1948 -2010)
Tony Judt died of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis – Lou Gehrig’s disease — on Saturday. Over the years I have immensely enjoyed the historian’s brilliant and insightful essays (at times acerbic-romantic, at times outrageous-calmly British) ...
Homage & Good-Bye to Tuli Kupferberg
On Saturday a Tuli Kupferberg homage was held at Saint Marks in the Bowery’s Poetry Project. The Fugs performed a number of Tuli’s songs, and some 40 plus people spoke or read to honor...
Crossing the Bar
And thus Robert C. Byrd kicked the proverbial bucket at 92, which could become problematic for votes in the Senate under the Obama administration. That old southerner who made good (a politician who can...
Memorial Reading for Leslie Scalapino
On Monday night, a memorial reading for Leslie Scalapino was held at the St Mark’s Poetry Project, in the presence of Tom White, Leslie’s husband, and organized by E. Tracy Grinnell and Charles Bernstein...
Roger Manderscheid (1933-2010)
And the Memorial Day occasion stretches on: news just in that the Luxembourg writer Roger Manderscheid, an old & dear friend, died on Tuesday night. Of the generation just preceding mine, he was the...
Andrey Voznesensky (1933-2010)
Andrey Voznesensky
“Interglacial Narrows (Poems 1915-2021)” Contra Mundum Press
“Always the Many, Never the One: Conversations In-between, with Florent Toniello” Contra Mundum Press
“Conversations in the Pyrenees”
“A Voice Full of Cities: The Collected Essays of Robert Kelly.” Edited by Pierre Joris & Peter Cockelbergh
“An American Suite” (Poems) —Inpatient Press
“Arabia (not so) Deserta” : Essays on Maghrebi & Mashreqi Writing & Culture
“Barzakh” (Poems 2000-2012)
“Fox-trails, -tales & -trots”
“The Agony of I.B.” — A play. Editions PHI & TNL 2016
“The Book of U / Le livre des cormorans”
“Memory Rose Into Threshold Speech: The Collected Earlier Poetry of Paul Celan”
“Paul Celan, Microliths They Are, Little Stones”
“Paul Celan: Breathturn into Timestead-The Collected Later Poetry.” Translated & with commentary by Pierre Joris. Farrar, Straus & Giroux