Ron Slate's blog
February 26th, 2010
on Reality Hunger: A Manifesto, by David Shields (Knopf)
David Shields’ Reality Hunger: A Manifesto ardently tags after the American poets who have dismissed the facts of the day and their shotgun-riding media and arts. “Realism is a corruption of reality,” said Wallace Stevens. In 1951, as the hydrogen bomb made its debut, William Carlos Williams voiced his disregard:
February 18th, 2010
on The Whole Island: Six Decades of Cuban Poetry, ed. by Mark Weiss; and It’s Not You, It’s Me, ed. by Jerry Williams
The statue of José Martí (1853-1895) is situated at the 59th Street entrance to Central Park near the Grand Plaza. The Cuban poet-patriot is depicted at the moment Spanish bullets ripped into him at the Battle of Dos Rios.
