W.S. Merwin & Friends: A Tribute
A benefit for Copper Canyon, February 4th in Seattle
Join us for a rare treat at Town Hall Seattle, 7pm Thursday, February 4th , when W.S. Merwin reads with four younger poets: Erin Belieu, Ben Lerner, Valzhyna Mort, and Matthew Zapruder. Proceeds support Copper Canyon Press and its mission. A commemorative broadside will be available, and a book signing will follow the event.
Purchase Tickets: $15 for the general public, $10 for students.
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Hayden Carruth
from Richard Hugo
RICHARD HUGO IS DEAD. He died not long ago. Now this new book contains, practically speaking, all his poetry, meaning each of his previous books in full, plus twenty-odd pages of poems written after the last book issued during his lifetime. In such circumstances a reviewer is expected to make some sort of summary. Can it be done? Not well; not within the confines of an ordinary review. Nevertheless one tries to be useful.
First summation: Making Certain It Goes On is as tedious a book of poems as anyone could be asked to read, in spite of a few, very few, good and moving poems here and there.
Second summation: it puts me in mind of a time many years ago when I bought the complete poems of Robert Herrick, a poet I admire very much, granting the offensiveness of his cavalier affiliations. Before I had read half the book I was fed to the ears with Herrick. To this day I have not read the second half. For lovers of poetry an anthology is a blessing, even an inferior one.
Third summations: with truly great poets this is not the case; e.g., I can read, seriatim, and with pleasure, all of Ben Jonson’s lyric poems.
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