Commentaries - October 2007

The rest is noise

I recommend J.I recommend J.

Reminding you of silent doubles

Rachel Blau DuPlessis, poet, teacher, critic, editor: her newest book of poems is Torques: Drafts 58-76, out from Salt Modern Poets since September. Drafts is an ongoing long poem (Rachel calls it her "endless poem") written in cant

Speak of it as if it is just new

Last March Jamaica Kincaid visited for three days as a Writers House Fellow.