"I don't know that we really think any thoughts; we think connections between thoughts. That's where the mind moves, that's what's new." Anne Carson talks to Emma Brockes • The Guardian

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" 'Baudelaire' is an avenue — crowded, foggy and skull-lined — along which one passes to think about the modern world itself." Joshua Clover • The New York Times

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"These syllables might be nonsensical, but they are telling and resonant." John Skoyles • The Atlantic

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"Charles Bernstein has made a habit (and a career) out of questioning modern American poetry's love affair with personal experience and 'voice'." David Kaufmann • The Forward

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"Where once he tested poetry against ugliness, the imagination against the world, now he settles for the dreary, flummoxed middle zone of life." Dan Chiasson on C.K. Williams • The New York Times

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"If the experiment of the 20th century was to separate rhythm and meter, the challenge of the 21st century may be to re-connect them in a vital and fruitful way." Timothy Steele • Poets.org

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"Even when there is a prevalent period style, the pluralism of North American poetry goes about its business." D.W. Fenza • AWP

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"The lack of authorship seems to serve as an invitation, opening up a space within the poem for a new writer to occupy." Simon Armitage on translating Sir Gawain and the Green Knight • The Guardian

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"In order to draw upon the forms of the tradition, one must also be able to subvert them." J.S. Renau on David Caplan's Questions of Possibility • Contemporary Poetry Review

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"If I had asked somebody to promise to destroy something of mine and they didn’t do it I would feel it to be a grave personal betrayal." Helen Vendler talks to Rachel Donadio • The New York Times

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"Who is the best American poet writing today? Though the news will not be welcome to prize juries, literary philanthropists, and the people who choose the poems for the subway, I think it may be Frederick Seidel." Adam Kirsch • The New York Sun

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"Good poetry will contradict itself." Tony Hoagland on Eleanor Lerman • The Nation

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"Today’s American poets investigate a new way of thinking about the most basic facts of existence." John Burnside • Poetry Review (pdf)

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"Unlike each detail happiness comes to no end ..." Claudia Rankine on Lyn Hejinian's Happily • Poets.org

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"In the post-industrial age, this is the only form of real exploration left." Will Self walks the walk • The New York Times

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"Anne Carson is ruled by her utter abandonment to language." Alexis Smith • Powell's

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"Poetry is not linguistic aromatherapy. It is not a massage." Adrienne Rich talks to John Freeman • The Times

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