New on Poets.org American Classics: Eight Influential Collections
Extended Curiosity: Rachel Zucker on the Long Poem
Pushing at the Boundaries: Antin, Greger & Rothenberg
Tide of Voices: Mark Doty on Why Poetry Matters
Justice Contained in Art: Hirsch & Dove on the Political in Poetry
End-of-Summer Reading: Reviews of Recent Notable Books
American Classics: Eight Influential Collections A groundbreaking book of poetry, whether singularly innovative in style or provocative in subject, creates a conversation that endures, often for generations. This month, we feature eight collections newly added to our showcase of Groundbreaking Books, by poets W. H. Auden, Ted Berrigan, Lyn Hejinian, Jackson Mac Low, W. S. Merwin, Muriel Rukeyser, Phillis Wheatley, and Louis Zukofsky. Learn more about these influential volumes, their poems, and critical reception. On the web at: www.poets.org/classics   | What 21st century book of poetry do you see becoming a groundbreaking book for future generations?
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Extended Curiosity: Rachel Zucker on the Long Poem  "What the long poem is most often 'about' is itself: the process of extended curiosity, noticing, thinking, and being aware." Exploring poems that "revel in going too far" and have expansive scope, Rachel Zucker suggests that longer works "offer something all their own and tell stories that cannot be told in other forms." Zucker praises the unusual experience of reading longer works: "My life interrupts the poem, which I can't read in one sustained burst of concentration, and the poem interrupts my life as I find I've spent my whole afternoon traveling its landscape." Read Zucker's 18 defenses of the sub-genre in her essay "An Anatomy of the Long Poem."
On the web at: www.poets.org/longpoems
Pushing at the Boundaries: Antin, Greger & Rothenberg Learn more about three poets who have extended the limits of poetry while experimenting in other art forms. David Antin innovated the performance of poetry with his improvisational "talk poems" before moving into visual media. Debora Greger's work with collage interweaves with her verse as a pursuit of inspiration. Jerome Rothenberg's far-ranging curiosity made him an enormously innovative translator of world literatures, while his own poetry draws on his interest in performance and the visual arts. Find out more about these poets and read works by all three of these original voices, each newly profiled on Poets.org. On the web at: www.poets.org/danti, www.poets.org/dgreg & www.poets.org/jroth
Tide of Voices: Mark Doty on Why Poetry Matters "The project of poetry, in a way, is to raise language to such a level that it can convey the precise nature of subjective experience," proclaims Mark Doty in a lecture delivered at the Key West Literary Seminar. "Such enchanted language could magically dissolve the barrier of skin and bone and separateness between us and render perception so evocatively that we don't just know what it means, we feel what it means." Listen to a recording of the lecture and read the full transcript. On the web at: www.poets.org/mdoty
 Justice Contained in Art: Hirsch & Dove on the Political in Poetry In their conversation on "History & Poetry" at last year's Poets Forum, Academy Chancellors Rita Dove and Edward Hirsch tackled the thorny concept of political poetry. "The poet wants justice, and the poet wants art. In poetry, you don't actually get one without the other," assures Hirsch. Dove suggests that "a poem that can be used for political persuasion, if it's a good poem, is going to stand up regardless." Watch an excerpt from the conversation now, and attend this year's series of conversations on Saturday, October 30. Discounted All-Events passes are available until September 15. On the web at: www.poets.org/poetsforum
End-of-Summer Reading: Reviews of Recent Notable Books Still looking for that great summer read? Check out reviews of recommended books by Graham Foust, Amy Gerstler, Ray Gonzales, Marilyn Hacker, John Koethe, Catie Rosemurgy, Wei Ying-wu, and others. On the web at: www.poets.org/summerreading
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