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Poetry

Running in the Muddy Twilight

by Pier Paolo Pasolini,Translated by Stephen Sartarelli,

By Pier Paolo Pasolini, from The Selected Poetry of Pier Paolo Pasolini, out this month from University of Chicago Press. Pasolini, a writer and filmmaker, died in 1975. Translated from…

Destroy Your Safe and Happy Lives

by Michael Robbins,

A poet’s guide to metal

I Told You When I Came I Was a Stranger

by Pico Iyer,

Leonard Cohen’s first public musical performance

Twenty Little Poems That Could Save America

by Tony Hoagland,

Imagining a renewed role for poetry in the national discourse — and a new canon

Three Poets: “The Halls of Aspartame”

by Jess Cotton,

Timothy Donnelly on writing challenging verse, the cultural faith bred by 30 Rock, and the poet’s need to reach for the eternities

On the Shoulders of Giants

by Héctor Alvarez Castillo,Translated by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio,

From a February 2, 1985, interview with Jorge Luis Borges, by Argentine poet and essayist Héctor Alvarez Castillo, included in Camino a Babel, self-published by Alvarez Castillo last year. Translated…

Death alone is motion

by Jack Spicer,

Congenial Disorder

by Denis Donoghue,

Why should we look for comfort in poetry?

The mental kitchen

by W.H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden,Translated by Richard Howard,

Poetry

Running in the Muddy Twilight

Destroy Your Safe and Happy Lives

I Told You When I Came I Was a Stranger

Twenty Little Poems That Could Save America

Three Poets: “The Halls of Aspartame”

Sounding the word

Purple prose

On the Shoulders of Giants

Death alone is motion

Congenial Disorder

The mental kitchen

Debug

Poetry

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Running in the Muddy Twilight

Destroy Your Safe and Happy Lives

I Told You When I Came I Was a Stranger

Twenty Little Poems That Could Save America

Three Poets: “The Halls of Aspartame”

Sounding the word

Purple prose

On the Shoulders of Giants

Death alone is motion

Congenial Disorder

The mental kitchen

December 2007

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