Mapping the New (Interview with Rain Taxi)

Mapping the New:

An Interview with Marjorie Perloff

Rain Taxi: Review of Books, 6, no. 2 (Summer 2001): 46-48.

Question

Having just read POETRY ON & OFF THE PAGE, one of its more invigorating features is its non-literariness. It’s the least academic and professorial work of literary criticism I can remember reading in a long while. I’m assuming it is by conscious design – since it is […]

Robert Duncan’s Letters to Denise Levertov

Poetry, Politics, And The “Other Conscience”:

The Duncan/ Levertov Correspondence

Published in PN Review 112 (Nov-Dec, 1996): 33-38.

In 1952 Denise Levertov, then living in New York, received a poem-letter titled “For A Muse Meant” signed only “R. D.” and bearing a San Francisco postmark. The poem begins:
in

spired /the aspirate

the aspirant almost

without breath

and refers, some lines later, to “A great […]