From Prospect, Oxford's poetry revolution: Forty years ago, inspired by the 1968 revolts in Paris, Bernard Wasserstein tried to get the glamorous Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko elected as Oxford's professor of poetry — though the campaign failed, it somehow managed to suck in all the cultural currents of the time. The freedom of the city: A review of Selected Poems by Thomas Kinsella. A review of Notes from the Air: Selected Later Poems by John Ashbery (and more). An interview with Robert Hass on American poetry, Bob Dylan, and the impact of "The Big Lebowski". A review of Ezra Pound: Poet, A Portrait of the Man and His Work Volume 1 – The Young Genius, 1885-1920 by A. David Moody.

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