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What Gunpowder Poets Are Reading

April 21, 2017

We asked Kurt Olsson, winner of the 2016 Spacks Prize for his book Burning Down Disneyland, what books he’s enjoying now:
  • Garden Time, W.S. Merwin (Copper Canyon Press)—the poems tend to strike the same chord, but what a wonderful chord.
  • You Never Know, Ron Padgett (Coffee House Press)—Padgett does what he does as effortlessly as tying his sneakers. Damned funny to boot.
  • I Never Knew What Time It Was, David Antin (University of California Press)—a poet I’d never heard of before I read his obituary in the New York Times. I’m still under the spell of his “talk poems.”
  • Extracting the Stone of Madness, Alejandra Pizarnik (New Directions)—scary good scary poet who killed herself at 36.
  • Unthinkable Tenderness, Juan Gelman (University of California Press)—like Pizarnik, another Argentine poet trying to make sense of the unspeakable.

Plus The Shape of a Pocket, John Berger (Vintage)—late essays by a polemicist who wrote with the eyes of a painter and the sensibility of a poet.

 
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