Finding poetry in Kennedy assassination
http://www.wbez.org/episode-segments/2011-11-22/finding-poetry-kennedy-assassination-94275http://www.wbez.org/episode-segments/2011-11-22/finding-poetry-kennedy-assassination-94275
Tuesday marked the 48th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination. The moment has worked itself deep into the American psyche, spawning commissions, books, movies and theories all bent on uncovering what really happened that day. Author and poet Tony Trigilio was fascinated by the mystery surrounding Kennedy’s assassination. He poured over the Warren Commission Report and then, he started reading Lee Harvey Oswald’s personal diary. But he didn’t find conspiracy; he found poetry. The result was Historic Diary - his latest collection of poems.
Web extra: Tony Trigilio reads two poems from his book Historic Diary: Kiss Junie and Rachel for me, I love you, be sure to buy shoes for June, and The Manchurian Cadidate.
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April is the Bestest Month - Great New Reviews
Two perceptive writers, Felino Soriano and Hayley Mollmann, have joined Jared Demick as part of the Bug’s review team. In this issue, the following books are reviewed:
Urayoán Noel’s Hi-Density Politics
César Vallejo’s Against Professional Secrets
Edwin Torres’s Yes Thing No Thing
Anne Portugal’s absolute bob
Charles Bernstein’s Attack of the Difficult Poems
Sawako Nakayasu’s Hurry Home Honey: Love Poems 1994-2004
Ruxandra Cesereanu & Andrei Codrescu’s Forgiven Submarine
Peter Waterhouse’s Language Death Night Outside: POEM. Novel
http://www.dzancbooks.org/the-collagist/2011/4/14/youd-be-a-stranger-too-by-weston-cutter.html
Book Notes at Large Hearted Boy:
http://www.largeheartedboy.com/blog/archive/2011/04/book_notes_west.html
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