Writer. Fan Mail: A Guide to What We Love, Loathe & Mourn, The Full-Moon Whaling Chronicles, On Browsing, Forgotten Work. @TheAtlantic @AirMailWeekly @thewalrus
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“Jason Guriel is one of the best poet-critics under 50… Unlike Vendler, Mr. Guriel is both stimulating and fun.”
A very cool Christmas gift: @micahmattix reviews my new book of essays, Fan Mail, in the Wall Street Journal. See below. @WSJ @VehiculePress
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I'm on the latest Next Chapter podcast, complaining about the banal advice for young writers to "read widely"--based on a piece in my book Fan Mail. Link in basement.
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Cover reveal! Jason Guriel calls it "A frankly remarkable sophomore breakout." Get your pre-order at the link below.
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"The challenge for writers in the age of AI is the same as it’s always been: to choose the rumble-stripped path of most resistance."
@jasonguriel harpoons the point in @thewalrus:
thewalrus.ca/chatbots-are-lo…
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"[A] great work of art demands great labour. It wants fussiness, obsessiveness, struggle. It wastes time, not water—a rebuke to our optimization overlords."
Wrote about AI and writing for @thewalrus. Link in the basement.
"[A] great work of art demands great labour. It wants fussiness, obsessiveness, struggle. It wastes time, not water—a rebuke to our optimization overlords."
Wrote about AI and writing for @thewalrus. Link in the basement.
"Surely even a daringly uneven talent shouldn’t be permitted as many cliches as Carson is?" - Me on Anne Carson, in @poetrymagazine. See below.
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My favourite essay on Carson, by the infinitely brilliant @jasonguriel poetryfoundation.org/poetrym…
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A dissenting opinion:
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Delighted to let you know that my new poetry collection Seventh Inning Stretch will be published by Bainbridge Island Press early next year. (I'd call the Press an up-and-comer, but it's a little late for that--has been so for a while in fact.)
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How cool: I ordered the new Bruce Taylor book, We Drove All Day for This: New and Selected Poems, only to discover something I once said about Taylor on the back cover! I vaguely remember writing this…somewhere. But it’s true. Certainly Taylor’s my favourite living poet.
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"I have come to envy men among my contemporaries who have no interest in sports. I envy them the time they have saved...Some of the teams I have followed...are now in rebuilding mode. At nearly 90, I am too old to await their rebuilding." -Joseph Epstein in @Commentary