Monthly Archives: April 2015

Honored Guest by John Ashbery

Posted on April 27, 2015 by Mark Kerstetter

In an alternate universe, Honored Guest is the work of a John Ashbery who never became famous.

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Kenneth Goldsmith User’s Manual

Posted on April 25, 2015 by Mark Kerstetter

Sometimes a good way to learn about something is to learn about what it is not.

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The Poetry of Kenneth Fearing

Posted on April 22, 2015 by Mark Kerstetter

I’m falling in love with Kenneth Fearing: Selected Poems, a book I stumbled across in a used bookstore.

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You’re a Very Unique Person

Posted on April 14, 2015 by Mark Kerstetter

You’re a very unique person, and I think most people are not. I look to you and remember childhood dreams of sparkling plateaus. Your sui generis mannerisms can be imitated but not duplicated. But if I were you I wouldn’t … Continue reading →

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Reading Emily Dickinson’s “Safe in their Alabaster Chambers”

Posted on April 13, 2015 by Mark Kerstetter

I think of Emily Dickinson going about her daily business: cooking and baking, gardening, cleaning, sometimes entertaining guests and throughout all of it capturing words or phrases, maybe writing them down but most often capturing them in her mind and … Continue reading →

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The Collected Poems of Samuel Beckett

Posted on April 7, 2015 by Mark Kerstetter

Anyone who is as interested in Beckett as I am will have to have a copy of The Collected Poems of Samuel Beckett, but those with a less intense interest would do better to buy the fourth volume of the … Continue reading →

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TV Men: Artaud by Anne Carson

Posted on April 2, 2015 by Mark Kerstetter
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