From Electronic Book Review, an essay on Robert Creeley's radical poetics: Marjorie Perloff reflects on the legacy of misreadings of Robert Creeley's work and argues that his complex poetics should be read transnationally; how to do words with things: A review of Between Science and Literature: An Introduction to Autopoetics by Ira Livingston; a review of Differentials: Poetry, Poetics, Pedagogy by Marjorie Perloff. Poets don't legislate: We should accept the fact that poets reflect the times, they do not — cannot — create them. From The Nation, the Imperfectionist: A review of I Am a Beautiful Monster: Poetry, Prose, and Provocation by Francis Picabia; and The Artwork Caught by the Tail: Francis Picabia and Dada in Paris by George Baker. A review of Ezra Pound: Poet: The Young Genius 1885-1920 by A. David Moody. A review of The Wounded Surgeon: Confession and Transformation in Six American Poets by Adam Kirsch. A review of Winged Words: Flight in Poetry and History by Piero Boitani. For Zajal, think hip-hop, rap and toasting: An article on poetry as performance art.
