Review of Climate of Opinion edited by Irene Willis Reviewed by Dante Di Stefano in The Best American Poetry

By Tamar SchwartzFebruary 21, 2020February 21, 2020 Literature, Psychoanalysis

Click Here to Purchase: Climate of Opinion: Sigmund Freud in Poetry edited by Irene Willis on IPBooks.net

Climate of Opinion: Sigmund Freud in Poetry
Ed. Irene Willis IP Books, 2017 Review by Dante Di Stefano in The Best American Poetry 2019.

Irene Willis has curated a lively and compelling anthology of poetic engagements with Freud and his complicated psychoanalytic and cultural legacies. The anthology begins with the elegy by W.H. Auden, “For Sigmund Freud,” which ends:

Our rational voice is dumb; over a grave
The household of impulse mourns one dearly loved:
Sad in Eros, builder of cities,
And weeping anarchic Aphrodite.

David Lehman’s “Freud Quiz” concludes the volume on a buoyant and anodyne note. Between Auden and Lehman, Willis anthologizes poems by H.D., Anna Freud, Anne Carson, Dorothy Parker, Alicia Ostriker, Toi Derricotte, Stephen Dobyns, Lynn Emanuel, Louise Glück, Anne Sexton, David Giannini, and many more. Some of the highlights of the anthology Continue reading Review of Climate of Opinion edited by Irene Willis Reviewed by Dante Di Stefano in The Best American Poetry

My Favorite Singer Brother, I.J. Was Isaac Bashevis’ older brother Israel Joshua Singer the better novelist?

By Tamar SchwartzFebruary 10, 2020February 10, 2020 Literature

Click Here to Read: My Favorite Singer Brother, I.J. Was Isaac Bashevis’ older brother Israel Joshua Singer the better novelist? By Dara Horn on the Tablet website on February 10, 2020.

Poetry Monday: February

By Tamar SchwartzFebruary 4, 2020February 4, 2020 Literature

Our Poetry Editor, Irene Willis, will be away from her office until March. There will be a new Poetry Monday at that time.

Sigrid Nunez’s National Book Award-winning novel, The Friend

By Tamar SchwartzJanuary 18, 2020January 18, 2020 Books, Literature

Click Here to Read: Sigrid Nunez’s National Book Award-winning novel, The Friend: One form of contemporary misanthropy By James McDonald
on the World Socialist Web Site on January 18, 2020.

The Representation and Self-Experience of the Body in Literature and Psychoanalysis with Merle Molofsky at NPAP

By Tamar SchwartzJanuary 18, 2020January 18, 2020 Literature, Psychoanalysis

Click Here to Read: Merle Molofsky’s Presentation at the Meeting on The Representation and Self-Experience of the Body in Literature and Psychoanalysis with Lee Jenkins, PhD, LP; Merle Molofsky, MFA, LP at NPAP on Friday, January 10, 2020.

POETRY MONDAY: January 6, 2020

By Tamar SchwartzJanuary 6, 2020January 6, 2020 Literature

Hilde Weisert

Good morning – and a Happy, Happy New Year 2020, everyone! It is indeed, hard to believe, isn’t it? Not only a new year but a new decade – one in which we hope to bury or rid the world of the unpleasantness and even horror of 2019. I say “the world,” because it isn’t only here in the U.S. that we have been experiencing so many negative things. At any rate, poetry is something that helps us to live our lives and to stay resilient. Continue reading POETRY MONDAY: January 6, 2020

Found in Translation

By Tamar SchwartzDecember 31, 2019December 31, 2019 History, Literature

Click Here to Read: Found in Translation: A Lithuanian cartoonist and translator travelled to New York to find missing sections of young Jews’ autobiographies, hidden in Vilnius during the Second World War By Tyler Foggatt in the New Yorker on December 23, 2019.
Image: Khaykl Lunski in the Strashun Library in Vilnius. Public Domain via Wikimedia COmmons