March 14, 2020
Projective Verse, Space-time, and Attention
Joe Safdie - Projective Verse, Spaace-time, and Attention
March 14, 2020
Edward Dorn, Satire, and the Via Negativa
Joe Safdie - Dorn and the Via NegativaEd Dorn and the Via Negativa
January 17, 2020
Joe Safdie Reviews Like A Dark Rabbi: Modern Poetry and the Jewish Literary Imagination by Norman Finkelstein
Joe Safdie -- Dark Rabbi
November 13, 2019
Joe Safdie to Dispatches 12 November 2019 [on Steve Abbot and Ed Dorn]
Dear Dispatches: I write to include a small addendum to Patrick Dunagan’s fine review of Beautiful Aliens, the Steve Abbott reader. Not that it…
October 29, 2019
Somewhere in the Stream by Duncan McNaughton — A Review
The journal Rain Taxi has a policy that reviews can’t be written by people who actually knew the writer involved, an idea I’ve never been able to…
July 25, 2019
Clashing and Conflicting Voices: A Review of The Miseries of Poetry: Traductions from the Greek
The Miseries of Poetry: Traductions from the Greek translated by Alexandra Papaditsas and Kent Johnson Skanky Possum, 2003; 52 pages What to make of…
June 15, 2018
The Invisible Reality of the Muses, by Joe Safdie
[Best viewed when downloaded] Safdie complete 2 red
October 7, 2017
Nason’s A Modern Dunciad: A Defense of Satire, Part Three, by Joe Safdie
Be sure to check out Richard Nason's A Modern Dunciad. Book 1; Books 2 & 3; Book 4 and Epilogue; and Joe Safdie's earlier essay on Nason and…
September 29, 2017
A Modern Dunciad, by Richard Nason, introduced by Joe Safdie
A Modern Dunciad Books 2 & 3 A Modern Dunciad Book 4 & Epilogue See also “Permanent Revolution: The Value of Bitterness,” Joe Safdie on Nason…
August 17, 2017
AWP Dispatch #2
Walter Benjamin wrote about the baleful influence of the daily newspaper in one of his essays (was it “One-Way Street”?), saying that the front page…
July 6, 2017
Permanent Revolution: The Value of Bitterness, by Joe Safdie
Be sure to check out Richard Nason's A Modern Dunciad. Book 1 Books 2 & 3 Book 4 and Epilogue Safdie -- Permanent Revolution (1)
May 2, 2017
Joe Safdie and Dispatches exchange views on Coulter, resistance, freedom and the usefulness of silencing people
Dear Dispatches, Been thinking a bit about the Coulter nonsense and the sheer idiocy of aligning with cretins like her. So I think there’s probably…
June 14, 2016
Charles Olson and Finding One’s Place, by Joe Safdie – A lecture given at the Gloucester Writers’ Center June 1, 2016
“I’m a cosmopolitan,” said my friend Jerry Rothenberg, when I told him the title of this lecture; “I’m not sure I want to find my place.” I remember…