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A Cast-Iron Aeroplane That Can Actually Fly: a Continuation of an Interview with Peter Johnson [by Nin Andrews]
How did this anthology come about? I’m very proud of A Cast-iron Aeroplane That Can Actually Fly: Commentaries from 80 Contemporary American Poets on Their Prose Poetry. There are many excellent anthologies…
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An Interview with Prose Poet Peter Johnson [by Nin Andrews]
When I think of prose poets from this country, the two names that come to mind are Russell Edson and Peter Johnson. Neither you nor Edson ever write (or wrote) in verse, and both…
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On “The Bigamist” by Ida Lupino on her birthday [by David Lehman]
I saw The Bigamist, maybe the best movie Ida Lupino directed, thoughThe Hitchhiker gives it a run for the money. Edmund O’Brien hasone wife in San Francisco(Joan Fontaine, who wants a baby),and another wife in…
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On Robert Lowell’s “Children of Light” [by Jeffrey Meyers]
Our fathers wrung their bread from stocks and stonesAnd fenced their gardens with the Redman’s bones;Embarking from the Nether Land of Holland,Pilgrims unhouseled by Geneva’s night,They planted here the serpent’s seeds of light;And here…
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What is Postmodernism? No one knows but David Lehman hazards a guess
D a v i d L e h m a nThe Questions ofPostmodernism What do the following have in common? A poem about the characters in a book, and about the reader of…
