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Offerings to the God of Attention: Recent Literary Events in Bali and Australia

Offerings to the God of Attention: Recent Literary Events in Bali and Australia

By on February 16, 2012 in PROSE

Australian poet John Mateer contemplates recent literary events in Bali and Perth, Australia, celebrating a wide range of world writers and detailing his own offerings to the Gods of Attention.

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World Prose Portfolio #7: Dennis Walder

By on January 1, 2012 in WPP

THE SWEEPER Luca first turned up during the siege. He was ragged and unkempt, like any morlach from the mountains. He came striding into our midst, his black hair brushed forward over his brow, deep lines on either side of his mouth, his eyes staring, like he was a little mad. He said the soldiers [...]

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World Poetry Portfolio #45: William Radice

By on October 9, 2011 in POETRY, WPP

Poet and Bengali scholar William Radice is famous for his translations of Tagore. Sudeep Sen presents eleven of his original poems, from as far back as 1985 and as recently as his manuscript in progress Poems for . . .

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World Poetry Portfolio #42: Anthony S. Abbott

By on September 18, 2011 in POETRY, WPP

Sudeep Sen presents poems by San Francisco-native Davidson professor Anthony S. Abbott, whose books include the novel Leaving Maggie Hope and poetry collection The Man Who. “if words could save us (and they can, my darling)”

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World Poetry Portfolio #41: Tim Liardet

By on September 11, 2011 in POETRY, WPP

Sudeep Sen presents poems by Tim Liardet, Professor of Poetry at Bath Spa University, whose latest book The Storm House appeared this year on Carcanet, and who has won an Arts Council England Writer’s Award and 2010 Poetry Book Society Pamphlet Choice.

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Patchen: The Last Interview

By on August 4, 2011 in INTERVIEW, POETRY

This is the first in a series of poems, essays, stories, interviews, and other literary flotsam excerpted from small magazines and chapbooks from the last century. In 1967 Gene Detro interviewed poet Kenneth Patchen for what turned out to be the last time. That conversation appeared in a 1976 chapbook from Capra Press, and is now presented here, on Molossus.

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World Poetry Portfolio #33: David Kinloch

By on July 17, 2011 in WPP

Sudeep Sen presents poems by Glaswegian David Kinloch, featuring Cain’s wife, Deborah, Hannah, and King David’s “dick like a didgeri doo.”

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Masochism is Another Form of Elitism

By on June 20, 2011 in BEST OF, NONFICTION

Brian Hewes reviews Pascal Bruckner’s The Tyranny of Guilt: An Essay on Western Masochism, finding it enjoyable but ultimately unconvincing for its utopianism.

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World Poetry Portfolio #16: Christopher Merrill

By on March 6, 2011 in TRANSLATION, WPP

Sudeep Sen’s selections from the work of Christopher Merrill, director of the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa, poet, translator, and non-fiction writer, whose work has been translated into over twenty-five languages.

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