Poetry & Poets in Rags
In Great Regulars, I must highlight a remarkable and important piece by former online poet Luisetta Mudie, a poem sequence she had with a Chinese poet who was a student in Tiananmen Square in 1989. This article also includes her translation of a journal he made on returning to Beijing for a brief visit. And we know him by his pen name Dreamer Fei, so that he may be free to write without fear of persecution.
We begin News at Eleven this week with Charles Simic on C.P. Cavafy. We go directly into news of horrifically persecuted poets U Win Tin, who is nearly two decades in Insein prison, and Taslima Nasreen, who has a fatwa on her for writing honestly and openly. Then we get into controversial sex, poets who write about it, and those who do it.
Also, a new Great Regular, the books editor of the Los Angeles Times. Each time I find a David L. Ulin article on poetry, it has become part of News at Eleven. It is high time, especially with three articles by him this week, that I look specifically each week for what he has written.Thanks very much for clicking in.
Yours,
Rus
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