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
In On or About the Premises: a Reading and Celebration of Paul Blackburn

Amy Holman

My mother made herself the deer with a broken leg
We saw a deer through the pane into someone else’s yard. The leg moved like a tube sock pinned to the hip and half filled with sticks. I did not like to see it suffer,
either. She was upset —my mother —that no one helped the doe. Was it a mother, too? As if we were the first to observe the scene. We weren’t. All had been told to
let her be. My mother had suffered a destruction of the self, a divorce, and no one cared. That wasn’t true. We were grown, on our own. I agree it was hard. Yet
in those moments of a cold November day, we watched a doe, disabled and enduring, walk across a yard and eat a hedge. I wish she could have seen it like that.
Amy Holman is the author of the collection, Wrens Fly Through This Opened Window (Somondoco Press, 2010) and four chapbooks, including the prizewinning Wait for Me, I’m Gone (Dream Horse Press, 2005). Recent poems have been in or accepted by Blueline, concis, Gargoyle, The Westchester Revie…

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