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Would You Do That Again?
In short, the book offers the expert work of an expert: it is as if Bly is writing messages against the sky using not a plane but his own flawless wings and capacious vivid breath.Talking into the Ear...
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Stealing Sugar From the Castle: Selected Poems 1950 – 2013 by Robert Bly
Robert Bly is a classic American poet. This new compilation of his selected poems, Stealing Sugar From The Castle, is representative of not just the times in which he wrote, but they speak to his...
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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: The Poem as Whistling Father
When I was a boy in east Texas my father used to take me to the beach on Galveston Island. With my older brothers and our dog, Velvet, a brown boxer with a sweetie pie disposition, we’d take a day at...
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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: The Dugout
One afternoon in the Dugout on Commonwealth Ave. Marc Maron invited me to sit at a table with him. Marc was with Joshua Clover and a couple of guys from the English department I’d seen around but...
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Reckoning with the Bros: Trump, Bly, and Swimming in the Sea of Grief
There are dark forces roiling beneath the surface of American life. Along with nearly everyone from my side of the political spectrum and many from the other, I am wringing my hands as I watch...
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The Rumpus Interview with Ravi Shankar
I met co-editors Ravi Shankar and Alvin Pang in New Haven, at a public discussion of their recent anthology, Union: 15 Years of Drunken Boat, 50 Years of Writing from Singapore (Ethos Books and Drunken...
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The Rumpus Interview with Connie Wanek
Connie Wanek said that she only started writing poetry seriously in her late thirties, but since then, she’s been published in Poetry and the Atlantic Monthly, has received a Witter Bynner Fellowship...
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It’s Only a Matter of Time: A Conversation with Jack Driscoll
Jack Driscoll is the author of eleven books—four novels, four poetry collections and three short story collections. Quite a few of these have been chosen for awards over the years. The World of a Few...
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An Invisible World: Tomas Tranströmer’s The Half-Finished Heaven: Selected...
Between 2001, when The Half-Finished Heaven: Selected Poems was first published, and now, Tomas Tranströmer won the Nobel Prize and died. It seems reasonable, then, to rerelease the volume with...
View ArticleNotable Twin Cities: 2/10–2/16
Sunday 2/10: Enjoy a discussion of If They Come for Us by Fatimah Asghar. SubText Books, 3 p.m., free. Monday 2/11: Literary Witnesses presents a celebration of Robert Bly and his Collected Poems....
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