What's the purpose of poetry? A news story made me think about that question again. It also made me take a fairly recent book down from my shelf that I haven't looked at in a while, Poetry of the Taliban, edited by Alex Strick Van Linschoten and Felix Kuehn (Columbia University Press). The Times of … Continue reading Mystic moments: Taliban poetry and more
Author: Nick Owchar
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If winter came to George R.R. Martin, what next?
So, what kind of obligation does a writer have to his fans? I couldn’t help thinking of George R.R. Martin after watching a trailer of Baz Luhrmann’s production of “The Great Gatsby.” That might seem like an unexpected leap, but it’s not a big one. Thinking about “Gatsby” made me think about F. Scott Fitzgerald’s last … Continue reading If winter came to George R.R. Martin, what next?
‘Belief is possible at night’: Averill Curdy’s poetry
It was such a nice experience this week dipping into Averill Curdy’s "Song and Error," published a couple months ago by Farrar, Straus & Giroux, and finding Ovid there. It’s a pleasure to pick up a book by a contemporary poet like Curdy (or Carol Ann Duffy, whose favorite seems to be Virgil) and find … Continue reading ‘Belief is possible at night’: Averill Curdy’s poetry
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