From the anxiety of influence to the anxiety of irrelevance
“Is poetry relevant? Even among poets there seems to be a nervous consensus that it’s not.”
“Is poetry relevant? Even among poets there seems to be a nervous consensus that it’s not.”
Thomas Mann told the young James Lord that he possessed “the gift of admiration,” which “above all enables a talented person to learn.” See also.
Aimee Bender’s The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake appears early next month. She’ll discuss the book with Heidi Julavits at Symphony Space on June 14.
Foreign Policy’s collection of translated accounts includes a visit with a Vietnamese mother whose “demon-faced baby,” now a grown woman, is a casualty of Agent Orange.