I've seen Forest Gander several times at Brown University, I respect his
work. He is Married to CD Wright also exceptional.
- Peter
On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 12:20 AM, andrew burke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Well, I enjoyed that reading, thanks Barry. And I am a cautious Merwin fan
> -
> when I say 'cautious' I mean I am not swept away by everything he writes,
> but when he speaks to me, it really resonates. The first one to do that
> was,
> yes, The Drunk in the Furnace - what a good poem.
>
> I was in a professor's uni study yesterday and noted the range of Merwin
> books on his shelf. I said, quizzically, 'Oh, y're a Merwin fan?' and he
> replied, 'I used to buy every word he wrote, but I haven't read anything by
> him for years.' Maybe this is the price of being so prolific.
>
> Andrew
>
> On 21 April 2011 23:42, Barry Alpert <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > Though I've learned to expect little of interest to me emanating from the
> > taste range of the poet laureates who pass thru the Library of Congress,
> I
> > have to admit I was pleased and surprised by the selection of W.S. Merwin
> > for the 2010-2011 season. When I was an undergraduate at Washington
> > University in St. Louis, the English Department had a taste for poets
> > published by Atheneum and I can remember writing an essay on Merwin's
> book
> > THE DRUNK IN THE FURNACE for a faculty member who was also an Atheneum
> poet,
> > Donald Finkel. Even when I was teaching at Philistine University, I
> treated
> > the relationship between Merwin's prose poetry and his more
> > conventional-looking poetry. I would still prefer reading a translation
> by
> > W.S. Merwin over those by many other translators.
> >
> > Even if this is the only reading curated by W.S.M. during his term as PL
> > which I'll attend, I've never had a chance to witness either poet live
> > (except for the year Robert Bringhurst was--purely by accident--my
> next-door
> > neighbor). I've prepared myself by sorting out the videos of Gander &
> > Bringhurst on youtube and would like to single out one in particular
> which
> > was conceptualized by Forest Gander (that is, he's credited with "poem,
> > music, video"):
> >
> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAe726yL8K8
> >
> >
> > "April 21 - Witter Bynner Fellowship Reading. Poet Laureate W.S. Merwin
> has
> > chosen two seasoned voices in poetry, Forrest Gander and Robert
> Bringhurst,
> > to receive the 2011 Witter Bynner Fellowships, and will introduce the
> poets
> > on April 21 at the Library of Congress. Gander and Bringhurst will read
> > their poems at 6:45 p.m. in the Mumford Room on the sixth floor of the
> James
> > Madison Building. A book signing and reception will follow the event."
> >
> >
> > Barry
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Andrew
> http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
> 'Mother Waits for Father Late' republished available at
> http://www.picaropress.com/
> http://www.qlrs.com/poem.asp?id=766
> http://frankshome.org/AndrewBurke.html
>
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