"When critic Harold Bloom was invited by Lehman to select 'the best of the best' American poems for the series’ 10th anniversary edition, Bloom refused to select any poems from the volume guest-edited by Adrienne Rich."
I wrote about the forty-year anthology project, poetry’s place in Big Five publishing, and editor David Lehman's culture wars vision of American verse.
tmi: ma died without a will, so I went to france to get that worked out & france said call chicago and get yr birth certificate i said i have a copy right here & france said we need a new one so i call chicago and C says 5 weeks by mail but in person one day so I did that today
i have to say, as a trans journalist who has covered the "trans debate" for about a decade now, there is no daylight between how the trump administration and conservatives lie about tylenol and autism and how they've lied about youth trans care.
this country really wants there to be a strict definition of political violence - nah, sorry, all the violence in the US is political- maybe politics is the matter of how we coexist - and violence is a deeply ingrained human choice - so this is who we are- can it be changed?
I watched a video of it at one point - so strange-he didn’t seem to know what he was getting himself into & that seemed to make it all slow, dangerous, questionable, & boring - but I hear you - and US and German artists seemed to have a lot to say to each other in the 70s at least
