Moving targets
Subtitle: on poets, poetry & translation
By: Stephen Kessler
Publisher: El Leon Literary Arts
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Berkeley, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 243
ISBN-13: 9780979528514
Subjects: Poetry; History and criticism; Translating
Description: "Essayist for more than thirty years in Northern California's liveliest periodicals, Stephen Kessler presents a selection of his deeply informed and informative writings on poets, poetry, and translation. Rooted in the literary culture of the West Coast and radiating outward across the United States to Latin America and beyond, Kessler's clear and revealing vision in Moving Targets speaks to both the knowledgeable and the newcomer. His concluding essays on the art of translation, "antiwarism," radio as a poetic medium, and inspiration also offer provocative insights into the process of writing, reading, and appreciating poetry."--Jacket.
Table of contents: title: On Native Grounds; title: Rexroth Revisited; title: Robert Duncan: Living to Serve the Muse; title: Ferlinghetti: Canonized, But Not Co-opted; title: Allen Ginsberg: The Great Connector; title: A Bard Is Born: William Everson; title: Bob Kaufman's Long Goodbye; title: Gary Snyder's Common Knowledge; title: Lyrical Politics: The Art of Jack Hirschman; title: Bukowski: The Long View; title: In These States; title: An Unsung Master: The Many Lives of James Laughlin; title: Denise Levertov, Rival of Nightingales; title: Robert Bly Unbound; title: Moving Target: Merwin's Elusive Music; title: Frank O'Hara: A Painter's Poet; title: Baraka and Back; title: Wendell Berry, Resident on Earth; title: A Poetry Home Companion: The Doglike Genius of Billy Collins; title: Points Beyond; title: Aleixandre the Great; title: Dr. Joy: Fernando Alegria; title: Ernesto Cardenal in San Francisco; title: Passions of a Man: Pasolini the Poet; title: Theology for Atheists: Yehuda Amichai's Poetry of Paradox; title: Guy Davenport's Greek Revival; title: Czeslaw Milosz, 1911-2004; title: Back Home; title: What Does It Take to Translate Poetry; title: Forgery & Possession: The Poet as Translator; title: Poetry & Radio: A Sound Conspiracy; title: Antiwarism: Should Poets Make a Claim to Moral Clarity?; title: Seducing the Muse: Notes on the Nature of Inspiration.