Paul Blackburn

Someday I'll get to a book about poet and translator Paul Blackburn (edit in: I've heard rumors, as of August 2018, that an edition of letters in in the works, but just rumors. I've also found out that a new edition of the Journals and a Paul Blackburn Reader are in imminent.), hopefully a collected or selected letters, since the main work (his Collected) is done. Until then, here are a list of links that may prove interesting if you're interested in him. It took me only the better part of a day to cover 75 or so Google results (what can I say?; I was bored) if you want to double-check me. It just seems to me that someone else long before me should have shown some interest, but if it's just me, well, it'll have to be me. I can take the heat of the kitchen.

http://jacketmagazine.com/12/blac-stat.html

This 1954 piece was published in the book
The Parallel Voyages, Sun-Gemini Press,1987.

http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/speccoll/testing/html/mss0004a.html

http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/blackburn/blackburn_rothenberg_on_PB.html

Preface for Paul Blackburn by Jerome Rothenberg

http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/a_f/blackburn/blackburn.htm

Modern American Poetry

http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/blackburn/

Electronic Poetry Center

http://jacketmagazine.com/12/index.shtml

Jacket Paul Blackburn issue

http://ted-burke.blogspot.com/2009/11/paul-blackburn-and-hard-gaze.html

Ted Burke—Paul Blackburn and the Hard Gaze

http://library.wustl.edu/units/spec/manuscripts/mlc/blackburn/blackburn1.html

Blackburn papers at Washington University

http://jacketmagazine.com/36/king-blackburn.shtml

Basil King on Blackburn

http://poetry.about.com/library/weekly/aa080498.htm

Bob Holman on Blackburn

http://www.poetspath.com/homepage/poetics/online/Paul_Blackburn.htm

Paul Blackburn: Notes from a Lecture (Jim Cohn)

http://jessbarga.wikispaces.com/file/view/Cort%C3%A1zar,+House+Taken+Over.pdf

House Taken Over (Casa  Tomada) by Julio  Cortázar (Translated by  Paul Blackburn)

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/paul-blackburn

Blackburn poems in Poetry

http://web.njit.edu/~kimmelma/poemessay.html

The Journals: a paper on Paul Blackburn by Burt Kimmelman

http://simplestthingslast.blogspot.com/2008/06/stl-69-paul-blackburn.html

article discussing Blackburn poems from New American Poetry 1945-60, ed. Allen

http://tribute-airy.blogspot.com/2010/11/clayton-eshleman-on-paul-blackburn.html

Clayton Eshleman on Paul Blackburn

http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/blackburn/blackburn_eshleman_the_gull_wall.html

Clayton Eshleman on PB II

http://www.bard.edu/archives/poetryatbard.htm

Bard College Archives with a two-hour reading by Blackburn

http://www.poetspath.com/apg/apgls97_98.html

Jim Cohn on Paul Blackburn (video in Real format)

http://www.octopusmagazine.com/Issue14/hall.htm

Joe Hall on the Journals

http://lutheransurrealism.blogspot.com/2008/05/blackburn.html

http://lutheransurrealism.blogspot.com/2008/05/blackburn-ii.html

http://lutheransurrealism.blogspot.com/2008/05/blackburn-iii.html

Kirby Olson on Blackburn

https://soundcloud.com/poetry-project-audio/inonor-about-the-premises-a-reading-celebration-of-paul-blackburn-september-28th-2016
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