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unpublished Beckett, Frost, Paz

FULCRUM: An Annual of Poetry and Aesthetics, #6 (730 pages) features uncollected Samuel Beckett; unpublished Robert Frost and Octavio Paz; essays by Christopher Ricks, Marjorie Perloff, Eliot Weinberger and many others; a feature on "Poetry and Myth"; a debate between poets John Kinsella and Rosanna Warren; translations of Seferis, Vian, Quevedo; and a great deal more.

Most readers of Samuel Beckett are well acquainted with his plays and prose, but few are aware that Becket was a considerable, stunningly original poet. The special feature (185 pages) on "Samuel Beckett as Poet," edited by Philip Nikolayev in the current FULCRUM #6, presents Beckett's neglected masterpiece, "Ceiling," drawings of Beckett from life by Avigdor Arikha, and essays by Christopher Ricks, Marjorie Perloff, Eliot Weinberger, Anne Atik, S. E. Gontarski, Jean-Michel Rabaté, Simon Critchley, Chris Ackerley, Seán Lawlor, David Wheatley, Mark Nixon, Philip Nikolayev, Daniel Albright, and a previously unpublished conversation between Octavio Paz and Eliot Weinberger on Beckett's English translation of An Anthology of Mexican Poetry. A few of the essays quote extensively from Beckett's unpublished correspondence and manuscripts.

FULCRUM # 6 also presents previously unpublished lectures by Robert Frost ("The Claims of Poetry," "The Most Dangerous Phrase in America," and "The Natural and Supernatural Bounds of Science"), transcribed with annotation and commentary by Frost scholar James Sitar.

The special "Poetry and Myth" section, edited by Cliff Forshaw and David Kennedy, presents a variety of essays and poems on the subject.

And there is a great deal more outstanding poetry and criticism in the issue!

"FULCRUM has in only a few years established itself as a must-read journal, a unique annual of literary and intellectual substance positioned on the cutting edge of culture."--Billy Collins

"FULCRUM serves as a primary resource for anyone interested in diverse poetic practices not only from these States, but also from around our trembling globe."--Michael Palmer

FULCRUM #6 is 730 pages long and offered at an artificially low price. Please visit http://fulcrumpoetry.com for more information.

[Esmeralda]

I am well familiar with the writings of Samuel Backett and also with Octavio Paz and Robert Frost. This is a very interesting post. I would love to read these. Thanks.