FULCRUM #6 (730 pages) features unpublished Beckett, Frost, Paz; spotlights “Poetry and Myth,” debate between Kisnella and Warren, translations of Seferis, Vian, Quevedo and much else
Issue # 6 of the acclaimed literary annual, FULCRUM, features previously unpublished and uncollected writing by Samuel Beckett, Robert Frost and Octavio Paz; original scholarship on “Samuel Beckett as Poet” by Christopher Ricks, Eliot Weinberger, Marjorie Perloff and others; a special section on “Poetry and Myth”; a debate between poets John Kinsella and Rosanna Warren; translations of poetry by George Seferis, Boris Vian and Francisco de Quevedo; a great deal of outstanding current poetry and literary criticism; and visual art.
Now out from Salt Publishing: THEATRE by Alison Croggon.
Alison Croggon’s bold new collection, Theatre, uses a range of narratives, fables, monologues and compressed lyrics to examine female identity and the idea of divine experience. Stepping confidently between different registers and a wide range of forms, Croggon’s poetry shows a writer at the height of her powers narrating a female world of folk tales, trials, challenges, transgressions, and mythologies, where rites of passage are both linguistic, spiritual and political, and where persona is stripped back to an essential humility always journeying into fragile and impossibly beautiful worlds.
1945 to the 21st century, with poets ranging from Edwin Denby (b. 1903) to those currently in their twenties. Jeff Hilson, the editor, contributes an introductory essay.
The Man in the Booth in the Midtown Tunnel by Doug Holder (Book) in Poetry.
For years that image of the man in a small plastic booth in the fume-filled Midtown Tunnel that connects Queens to Manhattan in NYC haunted me. As a kid traveling into the city from the sheltered, well-manicured lawns of Long Island to the enigmatic, cosmopolitan world of Manhattan, I couldn’t help but wonder about that blue- uniformed lone figure pacing the perimeter of his plastic cage. I think he represented to some extent my fear of the world outside the comforts of my family, and the staid, small town I lived in, Rockville Centre. - Doug Holder
