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The Poet Interviews A Novelist, Part I

In which the indefatigable Carl Wendt, not quite Charles Baudelaire, not quite Charles Bukowski, poet for all seasons, master flaneur, and last of the poètes maudits, interviews a shooting star novelist at the behest of his agent, Nora White, and … Continue reading

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Black Bart Quarterly Review Of Books II-1

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—New To The Society’s Shelves—

Mark Young, Ley Lines II, Sandy Press, 2023Ley Lines II, Mark Young’s latest poetry selection, offers a who’s who of celebrity names as titles. For those unfamiliar with the term, ley lines are straight alignments drawn between various historic structures, prehistoric … Continue reading

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Charles Bernstein’s GPS

Charles Bernstein’s GPS Recalculating by Charles Bernstein (The University of Chicago Press, 2013) When they are not being performed, Charles Bernstein’s poems are on the edge of performance. But they don’t start that way. They start as notes from a … Continue reading

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Black Bart Quarterly Review Of Books I-4

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—New To The Society’s Shelves—

Tim Hunt, Voice To Voice In The Dark, Broadstone Press, 2022 Robinson Jeffers scholar Tim Hunt’s new selection of poems presents the American parade in snapshots, panoramas, of bunting’d balconies, hot rod fetishes, and dashboard radios blaring rock. Hunt, also … Continue reading

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“Poesy’s ravening violet flames”:  Whalen in Ekstasis, Part I

by Bruce Holsapple  1. Elevated States Just beyond two minutes into his NET interview for the film series USA: Poetry, a relatively trim, focused Phil Whalen responds to an off-camera question, likely about how he began writing poetry. Whalen was … Continue reading

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Black Bart Quarterly Review Of Books I-3

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The Poet’s Woman Troubles

Not quite Charles Baudelaire, not quite Charles Bukowski, full-time flaneur and poet-about-town Carl Wendt reflects on the many missteps he had made in his relationships. In some way or other has always managed to fail, to disappoint, the women in … Continue reading

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Black Bart Quarterly Review Of Books I-2

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