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Our own Michael Robbins has two reviews out this week:  a wickedly hilarious takedown of Robert Hass’s selected poems in the new issue of Poetry magazine, & a less wickedly hilarious ]]> http://www.digitalemunction.com/2010/09/01/is-the-yak-smeared-with-the-juice-of-cherries/ The Limits to Capital Just wanted to post, belatedly, a link to Ms. Dark’s excellent interview with Gopal Balakrishnan in Lana Turner, since I have of late found myself nonplussed by the skepticism with which what seems an utterly uncontroversial, even trivial, claim is…

]]> http://www.digitalemunction.com/2010/08/31/the-limits-to-capital/ Poetry in Hyde Park If you’re in Hyde Park on Saturday, please come see me read my poems at Majel Connery’s fantastic Salon performance series.

On the Program:

Larry Zbikowski (guitar)
Harold Olivey (voice)
Michael Robbins (poetry)
Des Pickard (singer/songwriter)…

]]> http://www.digitalemunction.com/2010/08/03/poetry-in-hyde-park/ Just Read the Fucking Book Browsing the poetry section in 57th Street Books today, I discovered that Knopf has placed the following blurb on the back of the paperback edition of Jack Gilbert’s The Dance Most of All:

“The best poems here are valuable bulletins

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]]> http://www.digitalemunction.com/2010/07/15/just-read-the-fucking-book/ Self-titled Just a note to say that I have four poems in the new issue of Fence (printed at the editor’s behest under one title as a single poem in four sections, although they’re four separate poems in my manuscript…

]]> http://www.digitalemunction.com/2010/07/12/self-titled/ Real Taste I don’t talk about it much, but I spent part of my childhood in the careless & tacky condition of the very poor. Small town Colorado was where I learned what an eviction notice is, what food stamps could &…

]]> http://www.digitalemunction.com/2010/07/10/real-taste/ The Rumors of Hip Hop’s Demise Have Been &c. Look, I don’t have time to do critical justice to Big Boi’s Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty, so I’m just going to say that it’s the best album of the year by far & you…

]]> http://www.digitalemunction.com/2010/07/07/the-rumors-of-hip-hops-demise-have-been-c/ I Have Never, Never Kissed a Car Before Just a note to say I have a new poem up at The Morning News, which recently started publishing poems (by the likes of D. A. Powell & Andrea Cohen, no less). “Slider” is from my “bad…

]]> http://www.digitalemunction.com/2010/06/29/i-have-never-never-kissed-a-car-before/ Dancing on Architects in the Village Voice Just a note to say my first record review appears in this week’s Village Voice, which is especially nifty for me, since it was Robert Christgau’s columns in that paper that first taught me what music criticism could be.…

]]> http://www.digitalemunction.com/2010/06/15/dancing-on-architects-in-the-village-voice/ Life Studies Niggas just write
I recollect
I really lived it, man
—Young Jeezy

Those blessèd structures, plot and rhyme—
why are they no help to me now
I want to make
something imagined, not…

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