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Post subject: unpublished Beckett, Frost, Paz in FULCRUM 6
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FULCRUM #6 (730 pages) features unpublished Beckett, Frost, Paz;
spotlights "Poetry and Myth," debate between Kinsella and Warren,
translations of Seferis, Vian, Quevedo and much else

Issue # 6 of the acclaimed literary annual, FULCRUM, features
previously unpublished and uncollected writing by Samuel Beckett,
Robert Frost and Octavio Paz; original scholarship on "Samuel Beckett
as Poet" by Christopher Ricks, Eliot Weinberger, Marjorie Perloff and
others; a special section on "Poetry and Myth"; a debate between poets
John Kinsella and Rosanna Warren; translations of poetry by George
Seferis, Boris Vian and Francisco de Quevedo; a great deal of
outstanding current poetry and literary criticism; and visual art.

The "Samuel Beckett as Poet" feature, edited by Philip Nikolayev,
presents Beckett's neglected masterpiece "Ceiling" and other
uncollected and unpublished poems, essays by Christopher Ricks, Jean-
Michel Rabaté, Marjorie Perloff, Eliot Weinberger, Simon Critchley,
Anne Atik, S.E. Gontarski and others, life drawings of Beckett by
Avigdor Arikha, and a previously unpublished conversation between
Octavio Paz and Eliot Weinberger on Beckett. A number of the essays
quote Beckett's unpublished correspondence and manuscripts.

FULCRUM # 6 also presents previously unpublished lectures by Robert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.

Poets published in FULCRUM #6 include Landis Everson, Alexei Tsvetkov,
George Seferis's long poem Thrush (translated by George Kalogeris),
Boris Vian (translated by Raymond Federman), Francisco de Quevedo
(translated with an introduction by Christopher Johnson), John
Kinsella, Rosanna Warren, W. N. Herbert, Jeet Thayil, Geraldine Monk,
Alan Halsey, Peter Riley, and a great many others.

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

"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 or to
acquire a copy.

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