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Is the State of Contemporary Poetry Healthy? – Quote of the Day / William Logan5 comments

1minutebookreviewswordpresscom wrote 2 weeks ago: Just picked up Our Savage Art: Poetry and the Civil Tongue (Columbia University Press, 368 pp., $29. … more →

Tags: News, American poets, Amy Clampitt, book reviewing, Books, Garrick Davis, Gjertrud Schnackenberg, John Ashbery, Literary Controversies

Stick to your Polish, Joseph Conrad! … Whoa, Cleopatra! 144 comments

acacciatura wrote 1 month ago: A few questions and some leftover thoughts from the last entry in this blog, Ruth Padel and the Pres … more →

Tags: Poetry, Psychology, Social Trends, The Blogosphere, cleopatra, Derek Walcott, Doris Lessing, Harold Francis Bell, Judge Sonia Sotomayor

And For Today, Mein Liebeduders4 comments

AR wrote 5 months ago: Hofflesheesch mein gerter mieu Wasffelbrachten du. Laverrness, eh der rater ein Bedech, bedech. Ah, … more →

Tags: Random, Antiquity, Art, Books, Charles Wesley, Conservatives, Conservativsm, Conversion, Conversion Stories

Franz Wright: "Learning to Read"24 comments

D.S. Loney wrote 5 months ago: Should I be afraid of what I say about Franz Wright? After poet-critic William Logan napalmed the Pu … more →

Tags: Poetry, du fu, franz wright, James Wright, Kenneth Goldsmith, Tobias Wolff

Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell

S&Co. wrote 8 months ago: Lowell always seems to be stuffing her newest poem into his billfold, so he can take it out later li … more →

Tags: Books, Excerpts

Gary Snyder: "Mu Ch'i's Persimmons"

D.S. Loney wrote 8 months ago: There’s not too much more I can say about the life of Gary Snyder that Dana Goodyear hasn … more →

Tags: Poetry, Dana Goodyear, Gary Snyder, William Carlos Williams

Scot partner McCulloch wrote to DON GUILLERMO HARTNELL from Callao on June 2, 1831, + 'begged to be remembered to all friends, particularly Dona Teresa'

goyodelarosa wrote 1 year ago: +++  Don Jose received a plea for assistance dated June 7 (translation):  ++  MI AMADO PADRE:  ++  E … more →

Tags: Amigos, book tour, CAFE CHAT, HARTNELLIANA, memoir, Nostalgia, 'Ayacucho' ship to California carried Dr. Anderson, 'DON GUILLERMO ARNELL' HARTNELL, BEGG + McCULLOCH LIMA PERU

William Logan wrote from Hacienda del Monte Puno Peru to DON GUILLERMO HARTNELL in Lima inquiring about Spanish Franciscan Padres Jose Maria Zalvidea, Sanchez, Peyri + Ripoll

goyodelarosa wrote 1 year ago: +++  ’No news particular only the potatoes and pumpkins are looking up every day.  . . . .  ++ … more →

Tags: Nostalgia, memoir, Amigos, HARTNELLIANA, book tour, DONA TERESA DE LA GUERRA HARTNELL, THE LIVES OF WILLIAM HARTNELL BY SUSANNA BRYANT DAKINS, John Begg Lima Peru, PADRE RIPOLL de Mision La Purisima

William Logan managed an adobe tienda for MACALA y ARNEL at San Pedro harbor, depot for produce from Misiones San Fernando y San Gabriel + 'el pueblo de los Angeles'

goyodelarosa wrote 1 year ago: +++  In detail, the Harvard undergraduate working as a common seaman, describes his difficulties in … more →

Tags: HARTNELLIANA, 'Two Years Before the Mast', Adobe tienda using INDIAN labour, Hide tossing described by Richard Dana, McCULLOCH & HARTNELL ('MACALA Y ARNEL'), Mision San Fernando, Mision San Gabriel, PAGE 67, Pueblos de los Angeles

DON GUILLERMO HARTNELL 'enjoyed excellent health, but rather a lack of vitality, a languor of the spirit'

goyodelarosa wrote 1 year ago: +++  ”By granting this favor to the Padre,” wrote Hartnell, ‘We make him our frien … more →

Tags: Amigos, HARTNELLIANA, folk, FRANCIS' FOOTSTEPS, DON GUILLERMO ARNEL, THE LIVES OF WILLIAM HARTNELL BY SUSANNA BRYANT DAKINS, published in 1949 by Stanford University Press, McCULLOCH & HARTNELL ('MACALA Y ARNEL'), TRADER: CHAPTER TWO

the link-boys slouching and the rainy wind

Euglossine Bee wrote 1 year ago: The trigger for this particular missive was this article in the New York Times — http://www.ny … more →

Tags: Poetry, a treatise of Civil Power, Alley Theater, alley theatre, Byzantine Empire, Edgar Allen Poe, Empress Zoe, English architects, Geoffrey Hill


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