In this issue:
William Archila: Three Minutes with Mingus
Rosebud Ben-Oni: Despite Their Best Efforts
Marianne Boruch: Three Blakes
Stephen Burt: "Like" A speculative essay about poetry, simile, artificial intelligence, mourning, sex, rock and roll, grammar, romantic love, William Shakespeare, Alan Turing, Rae Armantrout, Nick Hornby, Walt Whitman, William Carlos Williams, Lia Purpura, and Claire Danes
Regina Derieva: In Any Case • Outlet I • False Shame • Second-Hand • (Translated from the Russian by Frederick Smock.)
Tarfia Faizullah: Amulet • West Texas Nocturne • Confabulation
Frank X. Gaspar: Frank X. Gaspar interviewed by Ellen Bass
Frank X. Gaspar: Late Rapturous • June/July—Eleven Black Notebooks at the Desert Queen Motel • I Changed My Clothes with a Beggar Once
William Kistler: study eight • study nine • study eighteen • study thirty-nine • study forty-four • study fifty-six • study fifty-nine • study sixty-two • study sixty-three • study sixty-four • Afterword (on The Studies)
Joy Ladin: Emperors of Ice Cream: Sense, Non-sense and Silliness in American Poetry
Matthew Lippman: Blowhole • Everyone's Life Needs Rain • Sentimentality • Love Machine • Sweaty and Rich
James McCorkle: John Berryman • The Subtle Bodies
Timothy O'Keefe: Pinwheel
Robert Pinsky: Faeryland • "Faeryland" in 1982 and 2013 (The Poet on the Poem)
Carol Pittman: Not Everything Is a Metaphor
Nate Pritts: A Responding Noise
Mira Rosenthal: New Poetry in Translation: On Translation and Temperament
Books discussed in the column
Ilya Kaminsky and Jean Valentine. Dark Elderberry Branch: Poems of Marina Tsvetaeva. Alice James Books, 2012
Sohrab Seperhi. The Oasis of Now. Translated by Kazim Ali and Mohammad Jafar Mahallati. BOA Editions, 2013
Bernard Noel. The Rest of the Voyage. Translated by Elena Rivera. Graywolf Press, 2011.
Yannis Ritsos. Diaries of Exile. Translated by Karen Emmerich and Edmund Keeley. Archipelago Books, 2013.
Jason Schneiderman: The Sadness of Antonio
Ed Skoog: Turtles • Being in Plays • The Dining Room Table at My Place in Washington • When
Michael Waters: Poem, Slow to Come, on the Death of Logan • Lord Cockroach • Marvel • The New Gods • Punk Prayer • Mihaela Barefoot • Book of Names
Karen Whalley: As If
William Archila: Three Minutes with Mingus
Rosebud Ben-Oni: Despite Their Best Efforts
Marianne Boruch: Three Blakes
Stephen Burt: "Like" A speculative essay about poetry, simile, artificial intelligence, mourning, sex, rock and roll, grammar, romantic love, William Shakespeare, Alan Turing, Rae Armantrout, Nick Hornby, Walt Whitman, William Carlos Williams, Lia Purpura, and Claire Danes
Regina Derieva: In Any Case • Outlet I • False Shame • Second-Hand • (Translated from the Russian by Frederick Smock.)
Tarfia Faizullah: Amulet • West Texas Nocturne • Confabulation
Frank X. Gaspar: Frank X. Gaspar interviewed by Ellen Bass
Frank X. Gaspar: Late Rapturous • June/July—Eleven Black Notebooks at the Desert Queen Motel • I Changed My Clothes with a Beggar Once
William Kistler: study eight • study nine • study eighteen • study thirty-nine • study forty-four • study fifty-six • study fifty-nine • study sixty-two • study sixty-three • study sixty-four • Afterword (on The Studies)
Joy Ladin: Emperors of Ice Cream: Sense, Non-sense and Silliness in American Poetry
Matthew Lippman: Blowhole • Everyone's Life Needs Rain • Sentimentality • Love Machine • Sweaty and Rich
James McCorkle: John Berryman • The Subtle Bodies
Timothy O'Keefe: Pinwheel
Robert Pinsky: Faeryland • "Faeryland" in 1982 and 2013 (The Poet on the Poem)
Carol Pittman: Not Everything Is a Metaphor
Nate Pritts: A Responding Noise
Mira Rosenthal: New Poetry in Translation: On Translation and Temperament
Books discussed in the column
Ilya Kaminsky and Jean Valentine. Dark Elderberry Branch: Poems of Marina Tsvetaeva. Alice James Books, 2012
Sohrab Seperhi. The Oasis of Now. Translated by Kazim Ali and Mohammad Jafar Mahallati. BOA Editions, 2013
Bernard Noel. The Rest of the Voyage. Translated by Elena Rivera. Graywolf Press, 2011.
Yannis Ritsos. Diaries of Exile. Translated by Karen Emmerich and Edmund Keeley. Archipelago Books, 2013.
Jason Schneiderman: The Sadness of Antonio
Ed Skoog: Turtles • Being in Plays • The Dining Room Table at My Place in Washington • When
Michael Waters: Poem, Slow to Come, on the Death of Logan • Lord Cockroach • Marvel • The New Gods • Punk Prayer • Mihaela Barefoot • Book of Names
Karen Whalley: As If
