Daisy Fried

Dec 18, 2024 | nytimes.com | Daisy Fried

Ruby explains this in one of hundreds of footnotes that course in unrhymed 10-syllable lines down the book's right-hand pages, opposite the main poem (also in 10-syllable lines). In tandem, the text and the commentary narrate and explain poetry's origins and its waves of innovation and transmission all the way to the present, whereupon Ruby takes up artificial intelligence's relationship to the varied forms we call poetry.

Nov 18, 2023 | poetryfoundation.org | Mary Jo Bang |Daisy Fried

Fragile like a child is fragile. Destined not to be forever. Destined to become other To mother. Here I am Sitting on a chair, thinking About you. Thinking About how it was To talk to you. How sometimes it was wonderful And sometimes it was awful. How drugs when drugs were Undid the good almost entirely But not entirely Because good could always be seen Glimmering like lame glimmers In the window of a shop Called Beautiful Things Never Last Forever. I loved you. I love you. You were.

Jul 31, 2023 | poetryfoundation.org | Daisy Fried |Joshua Bennett |Terrance Hayes

“We talkin’ about practice.” —Allen Iverson As I read Watch Your Language (Penguin, 2023) and So To Speak (Penguin, 2023), Terrance Hayes’s new books, I found myself thinking about freedom. Both books frame creativity as a lifelong practice that can lead to a kind of liberation. Hayes recalls his time playing basketball as a teen and then in college to reverse the usual hierarchy between practice versus the game.

Apr 18, 2023 | nytimes.com | Daisy Fried

Book Review|A Poet Whose Swerves Capture the World in 14 Lineshttps://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/18/books/review/gravity-and-center-sonnets-henri-cole.htmlPoetryHenri Cole’s sonnets, gathered in “Gravity and Center,” reject most of the form’s constraints but embrace its ability to show how thought works. Send any friend a storyAs a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Anyone can read what you share.