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Fifty Years in Poetry: W. S. Merwin
The Totality of Causes: Li-Young Lee in Conversation
Distinguished Achievement: James McMichael
From Pastoral to Epic: Virgil
Best Book: Alice Notley's Grave of Light
New and Improved: Poems and Biographies
Fifty Years in Poetry: W. S. Merwin
During a career that spans five decades, W. S. Merwin has continually
transformed himself and his work.
Celebrate his 80th birthday with recordings and collectibles from our Poetry
Store, including an exclusive CD of his historic 1966 reading with an
introduction by Robert Lowell; a short documentary on The Poet's View DVD;
and a limited edition letterpress broadside of Merwin's poem "Returning
Season." Learn more about Merwin, read a selection of his poems, and listen
to recordings and a special Poetcast on Poets.org.
On the web at: www.poets.org/wsmer
The Totality of Causes: Li-Young Lee in Conversation
"I went from thinking that the practice of aesthetics was a complete waste
of time to thinking that aesthetic awareness is the most complete form of
awareness we have," explains Li-Young Lee in a conversation with Tina Chang, which originally appeared in American Poet, the journal of the Academy of American Poets. Subscribe by becoming a member today. Read the interview, a profile of Lee, and poems by both authors, newly added to Poets.org.
On the web at: www.poets.org/lylee
Distinguished Achievement: James McMichael
"James McMichael has for many years been one of our most innovative poets,
with a broad thematic range, and a passionate commitment to the truths of
life and art," writes C. K. Williams. "His poems are at once as capacious as
novels, formally inventive, and emotionally profound." McMichael just received the 2007 Academy of American Poets Fellowship for
distinguished poetic achievement. Read his biography, a selection of his
work, and listen to recordings and a recent Poetcast on Poets.org.
On the web at: www.poets.org/jmcmi
From Pastoral to Epic: Virgil
Written over two thousand years ago, Virgil's poetry remains timeless, from the pastorals of his Eclogues and Georgics, to his ambitious and
influential epic, the Aeneid, which follows the journey of the Trojan hero Aeneas. Read an excerpt from a 1907 translation by Edward Fairfax Taylor in which Aeneas mournfully gazes at temple carvings depicting the fall of Troy. In passages from a Robert Fagles's brand-new translation, Dido unleashes her fury upon Aeneas as he prepares to leave her and Carthage behind, and Aeneas's father offers a lyrical account of the soul's journey.
On the web at: www.poets.org/virgi
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On the web at: www.poets.org/membership
Best Book: Alice Notley's Grave of Light
The Academy of American Poets is proud to announce that Alice Notley's Grave
of Light: New and Selected Poems 1970–2005 has been awarded the $25,000 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize for most outstanding book of the year. About the collection, Marie Ponsot remarked: "These poems give us thirty-five years of political, personal, death-defying engagement." Read her biography, along with selections from the book, on Poets.org.
On the web at: www.poets.org/anotl
New and Improved: Poems and Biographies
"There is no Frigate like a Book / To take us Lands away, / Nor any Coursers like a Page / Of prancing Poetry," writes Emily Dickinson in one of the many poems newly added to Poets.org, including classic and contemporary work by Robert Herrick, Lord Alfred Tennyson, Margaret Cavendish, Amy Lowell, Mark Doty, and Terrance Hayes, as well as children's poems by Lewis Carroll and Robert Louis Stevenson. Re-discover your favorite poets, with new poems, photos, links, and more added to the profiles of Yusef Komunyakaa, Galway Kinnell, Susan Stewart, Ellen Bryant Voigt, Hayden Carruth, and others.
On the web at: www.poets.org/poems & www.poets.org/poets
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