Last month NPF editorial assistant Tyler Babbie attended The 39th Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture Since 1900 and he wrote a report on his experience, which I am only just now getting around to posting. NPF alumni are always in ample evidence at this three-day event — as presenters and also as subjects of [...]
Archive for the ‘Everything Else’ Category
A Child Poet in the Public Sphere
Posted in Everything Else, tagged Eigner, Larry Eigner on April 11, 2010 | 8 Comments »
One of the delights for longtime readers of Larry Eigner in the new Collected Poems is the extensive representation of Eigner’s juvenilia. The editors — Curtis Faville and Robert Grenier — have included a photographic reproduction of Poems by Laurence Joel Eigner, an eighth grade class project, and a section of “First Poems (1937-1950).” There [...]
Typos and Abbrevs.
Posted in Everything Else, Sagetrieb, tagged Eigner, Emerson, Fama, Larry Eigner, Steven Fama on April 8, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Steven Fama left a comment yesterday that I thought to bring front and center. He’s referring here to the Larry Eigner text on the cover of Sagetrieb 18.1 and also to my transcription of it (both are reproduced in the previous post): to what degree should we, in reading the typescript (or transcription thereof), add [...]
Olson in Worcester
Posted in Everything Else, tagged Charles Olson, Ed Sanders, Olson, Sanders on March 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This weekend the Worcester County Poetry Association celebrated the centennial year of Charles Olson (link). Though associated with the nearby city of Gloucester — the central location of The Maximus Poems — Olson was born and raised in Worcester. His relationship to the city was the subject of one of the weekend’s first presentations, by [...]
Considerations
Posted in Everything Else, tagged Curtis Faville, editing, editorial theory, Eigner, Emily Dickinson, Faville, Larry Eigner on March 26, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Curtis Faville, editor with Robert Grenier of The Collected Poems of Larry Eigner, has posted a three-party essay on his blog, The Compass Rose, on his relationship to Eigner’s work (part one), his approach to editing the work (part two), and his thoughts on Eigner as person (part three). These considerations form a sequel to [...]
Of Proper Margins…
Posted in Everything Else, tagged Eigner, Gary Schmidgall, Horace Traubel, Larry Eigner, margins, Steven Fama, Walt Whitman, Whitman on March 23, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Steven Fama’s blog, the glade of theoric ornithic hermetica, has recently featured several posts on the new Collected Poems of Larry Eigner. One of these was a manifesto on margins. And if “manifesto” seems strong in this context, consider the following passionate sentences: Dear readers, I feel as if I’ve been had, as if a [...]
Mary de Rachewiltz Poems
Posted in Everything Else, tagged Ezra Pound, Mary de Rachewiltz, Poetry Magazine on February 7, 2010 | 2 Comments »
I meant to post a notice a month ago that there were three poems by Mary de Rachewiltz in the January issue of Poetry. You can read all three of them online: “Roses“ “Giving Birth“ “She Stands“ I was reminded of this yesterday by a visit to Lippincott’s, the local used book store, where I [...]
