Writerly Roundup

• Milton's 400th Anniversary. Warning: Robert Pinsky's essaylet is actually kinda bad, but he quotes Pound and DuBois a lot, so on average, it's all right.
  
• The ongoing saga of Franz Kafka's papers. Because if anybody knows what it's like to negotiate with a recalcitrant party, it's the state of Israel.
• Lawrence Ferlinghetti's "Baseball Canto":
  
  

  Watching baseball, sitting in the sun, eating popcorn,
  reading Ezra Pound,
  and wishing that Juan Marichal would hit a hole right through the
  Anglo-Saxon tradition in the first Canto
  and demolish the barbarian invaders.

• Frank O'Hara, ON SEEING LARRY RIVERS’ WASHINGTON CROSSING THE DELAWARE AT THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART. Simply beautiful.
• Ron Silliman reading The Alphabet. I've preordered my paperback for the end of September. It's got more pages than Ulysses!