Rich's biographical page at the Academy of American Poets.
"Permeable Membrane," Rich's quite recent essay on poetry-and-politics.
Whitman's "Song of Myself." (For the bit quoted in "Ghazals: Homage to Ghalib," see section 6.)
An introduction to Ghalib and some translations.
John Donne's poem "A Valediction Forbidding Mourning."
Marie Curie in brief, and again with other details.
An interview from the late 1990s.
The poet Miranda Field appreciates Rich's first book of prose, Of Woman Born.
Monday, November 24, 2008
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
elizabeth bishop and adrienne rich
A simple map: Key West Bight.
A recent photo: lots of boats in Key West Bight.
A Key West resident on the changing bight.
View from a height, through mist, of Petropolis.
Petropolis with surroundings: high terrain.
Queen Anne's lace, close up.
Queen Anne's lace, with "drop of blood."
A recent photo: lots of boats in Key West Bight.
A Key West resident on the changing bight.
View from a height, through mist, of Petropolis.
Petropolis with surroundings: high terrain.
Queen Anne's lace, close up.
Queen Anne's lace, with "drop of blood."
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
elizabeth bishop and robert lowell
Bishop sites with potted biographies and reliable introductions: at the Academy, at the University of Illinois, and at the Poetry Foundation.
Barbara Page's Elizabeth Bishop site at Vassar College, and its comprehensive bibliography.
Bishop reads "The Armadillo."
Charles Baudelaire's sonnet "Correspondances"(compare to Bishop's "The Bight").
Elizabeth Bishop at Harvard, with audio of ten poems from North and South.
Also from the Academy, the poet and Bishop scholar Lloyd Schwartz on her recently discovered love poems, and the poet Katie Ford on Bishop and obsession.
Bishop (and Stevens and others) in Key West.
Some of the many letters between Bishop and Lowell. More of those letters, excerpted in The Believer.
Helen Vendler in the New York Review of Books on the new edition of Bishop-Lowell letters: "What was it that made 'Cal' and 'Elizabeth'... so necessary to each other's happiness?"
Dan Chiasson, in the New Yorker, on the new edition of Bishop-Lowell letters.
Christopher Benfey, in the New Republic, on the same book.
William Logan, in the New York Times Book Review, on the same book.
Adam Kirsch appreciates Lowell's last book, Day by Day.
John Palatella, in Boston Review, on Bishop's posthumously published drafts of poems.
David Orr in the NYT Book Review on the same book: "You are living in a world created by Elizabeth Bishop."
Meghan O'Rourke of Slate on the Bishop controversy.
Barbara Page's Elizabeth Bishop site at Vassar College, and its comprehensive bibliography.
Bishop reads "The Armadillo."
Charles Baudelaire's sonnet "Correspondances"(compare to Bishop's "The Bight").
Elizabeth Bishop at Harvard, with audio of ten poems from North and South.
Also from the Academy, the poet and Bishop scholar Lloyd Schwartz on her recently discovered love poems, and the poet Katie Ford on Bishop and obsession.
Bishop (and Stevens and others) in Key West.
Some of the many letters between Bishop and Lowell. More of those letters, excerpted in The Believer.
Helen Vendler in the New York Review of Books on the new edition of Bishop-Lowell letters: "What was it that made 'Cal' and 'Elizabeth'... so necessary to each other's happiness?"
Dan Chiasson, in the New Yorker, on the new edition of Bishop-Lowell letters.
Christopher Benfey, in the New Republic, on the same book.
William Logan, in the New York Times Book Review, on the same book.
Adam Kirsch appreciates Lowell's last book, Day by Day.
John Palatella, in Boston Review, on Bishop's posthumously published drafts of poems.
David Orr in the NYT Book Review on the same book: "You are living in a world created by Elizabeth Bishop."
Meghan O'Rourke of Slate on the Bishop controversy.
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
robert lowell
Augustus Saint-Gaudens' memorial to Robert Gould Shaw and the Massachusetts 54th.
A detail from the memorial.
A larger image of the memorial, on Boston Common.
Photos from the 1967 March on Washington. Soldiers vs. protesters outside the Pentagon. A closeup.
Charles V by Titian (click inside page to expand for full-sized image). A journalists' introduction to the same painting.
Lowell at Harvard, with a link to a 1946 reading.
Lowell at the Academy. Audio for "Skunk Hour." (Other audio at Academy site.)
A detail from the memorial.
A larger image of the memorial, on Boston Common.
Photos from the 1967 March on Washington. Soldiers vs. protesters outside the Pentagon. A closeup.
Charles V by Titian (click inside page to expand for full-sized image). A journalists' introduction to the same painting.
Lowell at Harvard, with a link to a 1946 reading.
Lowell at the Academy. Audio for "Skunk Hour." (Other audio at Academy site.)
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