Harbour Lights by Derek Mahon. The Gallery Press, 2005. As Reviewed By: Alfred Corn Myths about poetry and its production resist rational criticism, and we may be wasting our time trying to deconstruct the fable that English-language poetry has unfolded under what might be called a presiding genius, a directive energy moving from place to [...]
About Alfred Corn
Alfred Corn is the author of nine books of poems, the most recent titled Contradictions, which appeared with Copper Canyon Press in 2002. He has published a collection of critical essays, titled The Metamorphoses of Metaphor and a novel, Part of His Story. In 2001 Abrams brought out Aaron Rose Photographs, for which he supplied the introduction. Fellowships and prizes awarded for his poetry include the Guggenheim, the NEA, an Award in Literature from the Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, and one from the Academy of American Poets. For 2004-2005, he holds the Amy Clampitt residency in Lenox, Massachusetts.
Alfred Corn Has written the following articles:
Gleanings from the Cutting-Room Floor: Alfred Corn on Elizabeth Bishop
Posted on 01 July 2006
Edgar Allan Poe & The Juke Box: Uncollected Poems, Drafts, and Fragments by Elizabeth Bishop, edited and annotated by Alice Quinn. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 367 pp., $30. As Reviewed By: Alfred Corn When the American Library edition of the poetry and prose of Wallace Stevens appeared in 1997, editors Frank Kermode and Joan Richardson [...]
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“Than Longen Folk to Goon on Pilgrimages”
Posted on 01 February 2004
A Meditation on Pilgrimage and Poetry As Reviewed By: Alfred Corn Oxfordshire: A contingent of scholars from the University of Tulsa has come to Wroxton Abbey, near Banbury, to spend a month in relative seclusion while working on private projects and participating in a series of seminars designed to foster interdepartmental collegiality. Actually, the current [...]
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August Kleinzahler & Anger Management
Posted on 01 February 2004
Red Sauce, Whiskey & Snow. FSG, 1996. Green Sees Things in Waves. FSG, 1999. Live from the Hong Kong Nile Club: Poems 1975-1990. FSG, 2000. The Strange Hours Travelers Keep. FSG, 2004. As Reviewed By: Alfred Corn August Kleinzahler seems to have begun writing poetry in the early 1970s, publishing with small presses until the [...]
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No Kidding: Two Debut Volumes
Posted on 01 February 2004
The Calligraphy Shop by Ben Downing. Zoo Press, 2003. Paper, $14.95. 46 pages. The Hidden Model by David Yezzi. Triquarterly Books/Northwestern, 2003. Hardcover $39.95; paper, $11.95. 72 pages. As Reviewed By: Alfred Corn The Hidden Model by David Yezzi. Triquarterly Books/Northwestern, 2003. Hardcover $39.95; paper, $11.95. 72 pages. Inflation of the value of the New [...]
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