Up to my ears in theoretical essays while working on my MFA-required ever-growing essay on persona poetry in Gluck, Atwood, and Lucille Clifton, along with other more sundry assignments, but wanted to quickly echo Jordan and say how much I enjoyed The Eleventh Muse. This is no keeping-up-the-status-quo, quiet, epiphany-having-nature-walk poetry journal – idiosyncratic, sharp, edgy, weird – I liked almost every poem I’ve read so far in it. One copy is not enough! Seriously, this magazine is in my new top ten lit mag lists. Check it out.
Shoveling through submissions for Silk Road, trying to keep my head above water. Not enough time in the day!
Note: For an interesting take on Louise Gluck, look up Elizabeth Dodd’s essays on her work. The whole “personal classicim” – ie writing autobiography in persona poems while embedding it within larger archetypal/mythological narratives – description is worth the price of admission. I wish I’d had that phrase in my vocabulary earlier in my life. Plus, raise your hand if you agree that Gluck totally cops HD’s stylings and her work with mythic personas and floral personas? I said that fifteen years ago, and I still think it’s true, even if Gluck disavowed, to my face, when she visited our classroom, any knowledge of HD. Did she dissemble?