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Ned Balbo’s Family Narrative

June 02, 2021 by DAVID M KATZ in Ned Balbo, William Butler Yeats, Ezra Pound, Edgar Allen Poe, D.H. Lawrence, Anthony Hecht, New Criticism, New Formalism, Richard Ellmann, Bruce Springsteen, Joni Mitchell

Ned Balbo’s finest lyrics contain vivid fragments of this overarching epic, which amounts to a lifelong quest for identity amid a tangle of secrets, half-truths, and outright fabrications stemming from his adoption.

June 02, 2021 /DAVID M KATZ

Ned Balbo, William Butler Yeats, D.H. Lawrence, W.H. Auden, Anthony Hecht, New Criticism, New Formalism

Ned Balbo, William Butler Yeats, Ezra Pound, Edgar Allen Poe, D.H. Lawrence, Anthony Hecht, New Criticism, New Formalism, Richard Ellmann, Bruce Springsteen, Joni Mitchell

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A POEM OF THE PANDEMIC

March 09, 2021 by DAVID M KATZ in Arrival at Elsewhere, Carl Griffin, William Butler Yeats, T.S. Eliot, John Foy

“I’m trying to form a book-length poem of fragments about the coronavirus, with as many voices (writers) as possible,” Carl Griffin wrote near the start of the pandemic. The result is Arrival at Elsewhere.

March 09, 2021 /DAVID M KATZ

Arrival at Elsewhere, Carl Griffin, T.S. Eliot, William Butler Yeats, John Foy, The Waste Land, Easter

Arrival at Elsewhere, Carl Griffin, William Butler Yeats, T.S. Eliot, John Foy

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