📖 The best recent #poetry – #review roundup
Afterburn by #BlakeMorrison; Into the Hush by #ArthurSze; Unsafe by #KarenMcCarthyWoolf; Only Sing by #JohnBerryman; Lamping Wild Rabbits by #SimonMaddrell; Dream Latitudes by #AliaKobuszko
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"The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business."
Poems: www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/john-b...
✒️ #JohnBerryman, American poet and scholar, #DOTD 7 January 1972. #Poetry #Literature
“One must be ruthless with one’s own writing or someone else will be.”
Poems: www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/john-b...
✒️ #JohnBerryman, American poet, was #BOTD 25 October 1914. #Poetry #Literature
Image of three books: Mistress Bradstreet: the Untold Life of America's First Poet, None But the Righteous by Chantal James, and American Jezebel by Eve LaPlante.
Excited to take a break this weekend from my research on John Berryman and 17th-century Puritan America by reading Chantal James's novel.
#bibliophile #HomagetoMistressBradstreet #JohnBerryman #AnneHutchinson #AnneBradstreet
"The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business."
Poems: www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/john-b...
✒️ #JohnBerryman, American poet and scholar, #DOTD 7 January 1972. #Poetry #Literature
