(a) Irina Moga, "Of Love and the Island" in The Continuous Poem. "In modern poetry the Embarkation for Cythera appears to be a theme of equally luxuriant mythologies." [See discussion of Verlaine, Laforgues Théodore de Banville, Baudelaire, Andrew Lang, David Ferry, John Glassco & Francis Poulenc];
(b) Don Wentworth, "Dandy in the Underworld: Issa's Sundary Service, #84 in Issa's Untidy Hut. "If ever there was a patron saint of poetry (as well as music), Orpheus is certainly a leading candidate";
(c) Vassilis Zambaras, "Smyrna 1922: The Destruction of a City" in vazambam. "No lyric poetry here, just pure Ionian tragedy";
(d) Dan Waber, "this is visual poetry by Jenee Mateer" in this is visual poetry. "Jenee says: 'I see my work as a meditation on issues of gender, desire, identity and the complexities of language (communication)'";
(e) Dave Bonta, "Paradoxes and Oxymorons by John Ashbery" in Moving Poems. "Art student Al Belancourt made this film of Ashbery’s poem as an assignment for a poetry class, he tells me, inspired by viewing Moving Poems in class";
(f) Ed Baker (in email correspondence) cited "Uncollected Poems (18): Found Poems from 'The Emergence Notebooks' (for the New Year 2011)" by Jerome Rothenberg in Poems and Poetics. "This sequence of poems from the early 1960s was recovered, along with numerous others, for Retrievals, a volume of Uncollected & New Poems 1955-2010, to be published early in 2011 by Mark Weiss & Junction Press";
(g) Ed Baker (in email correspondence) cited "On & By Blanchot" by Pierre Joris in Nomadics. "Here is my contribution — a brief remembrance of buying my first Blanchot book in Paris & a reading from The Unavowable Community —to the Maurice Blanchot Celebrations at Bard College in November 2007."
Sentence: The modern poem, however (if ever there was a candidate for Ionian tragedy!), is a meditation on language—a retrievable and complex one.
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