digital emunction

From the first canzone of Dante’s Convivio, recalled after reading Edmund Hardy’s interview with Peter Larkin at Intercapillary Space:

Canzone, io credo che saranno radi
color che tua ragion indendan bene,
tanto la parli faticosa e forte.
Onde se per ventura elli addivene
che tu dinanzi da persone vadi
che non ti paian d’essa ben accorte,
allor ti priego che ti riconforte,
dicendo lor, diletta mia novella;
“Ponete mente almen com’io son bella!”

Canzone, I fear there will be few
who understand your meaning well,
so difficult and fierce is your telling of it.
Therefore if by chance it happens
that you go before some people
who don’t seem to grasp it,
I beg you, my new delight,
take heart! and tell them,
“Consider at least how beautiful I am!”

My review of Larkin’s Leaves of Field can be found here (PDF).

A 232-page issue featuring the poetry of Andrea Brady, Chris Goode, Peter Manson, and Keston Sutherland. Also: critical work on these poets by Jeremy Noel-Tod, Simon Jarvis, John Wilkinson, and Matt Ffytche; and an interview with Chris Goode by Sam Ladkin. The issue also includes fifteen reviews of new British poetry (including my review of Peter Larkin’s Leaves of Field [PDF]), a note by Keith Tuma on younger British poets, letters by Catherine Wagner and Peter Riley, and a poster by Andrew Duncan (”Styles of British Poetry 1945-2000″).

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This 192-page issue of CR features:

POEMS
C.D. Wright’s long poem “Rising, Hovering, Falling,” Devin Johnston, Alan Bernheimer, Joel Felix, Arkadii Dragomoschchenko, Peter Larkin, Peter O’Leary, Geraldine Monk, Ray DiPalma, Merrill Gilfillan, Gavin Selerie, Medbh McGuckian

FICTION
Jerzy Ficowski, “Filzbad” by Diana George [PDF], Brian Lennon

INTERVIEW
with Stefanie Marlis (by Eric P. Elshtain)

ESSAYS
John Wilkinson on Marjorie Welish
Robert Archambeau on James McMichael

REVIEWS AND NOTES
Robert P. Baird on Harry Thomas’s Montale in English
Daniel Borzutzky on Daniil Kharms’s Blue Notebook
Brian Whitener on Svetislav Basara’s Chinese Letter
Matthias Regan on Jena Osman’s An Essay in Asterisks
Eric P. Elshtain on Carol Moldaw’s Lightning Field
Melissa Girard on Srikanth Reddy’s Facts for Visitors
Michael Robbins on Daniel Kane’s All Poets Welcome
Paul Hoover on the Chicago literary scene

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