An afternoon roundup …

… courtesy of Rus Bowden:



… Dani Garavelli: Rage of doomed poet Dylan Thomas — The Scotsman.

… the dominance of Thomas’s personal life is not the only reason his poetry has been overlooked. “Thomas doesn’t fit neatly into any kind of category,” [scholar John Goodby] says. “He is a hybrid writer, a writer of in-between states. He’s an archetypal suburban poet who likes the countryside and his ­language is quite daring and experimental, but it’s not fully modernist or mainstream. Whereas I think that makes him provocative and challenging, most people want to be able to put people in various stable positions.”

… “Lesson”.



… The course of love — On Poetry: The month of crazy love.



… Family affairs: “Mon Dieu, What a Mother!”

[Marianne Moore]  never really fit the contours of the modernist movement. A gloved-and-hatted stickler for propriety, she was a Hoover lover and an FDR hater. She was a New Yorker, mostly a Brooklynite, for much of her life, but this cosmopolitan poet, who delighted in arcane references to Scarlatti or “the staff of Aesculapius,” also wrote what Leavell nicely calls “data-dense animal poems.”

… Religion of peace strikes again: Rouhani orders executions of Iranian-Arab poet, rights activist.