Out-of-Print Poetry

by Anne Doolittle

Originally published on October 1, 2000

This past March Pif‘s editors discussed running an Out-of-Print Books Issue. I said, “Wait a minute. Don’t books go out-of-print for a reason? Doesn’t all of a poet’s best work end up in a volume under a title that begins with Collected, or Selected, or if they’re really good, The Complete?” I held onto these [...]

Flower Power

by Anne Doolittle

Originally published on August 1, 1999

Flower Power © 1999 Anne Doolittle

A Poetry Student’s Commonplace

by Anne Doolittle

Originally published on August 1, 1999

Pif’s Poetry Editor offers up her commonplace book of poetry, a listing of various snatches of stuff – universal and profound.

Falling Water

reviewed by Anne Doolittle

Originally published on October 1, 1998

When Frank Lloyd Wright designed a house suspended over a water fall, he was fulfilling Montaigne’s belief that Our reason has capacity enough to provide the stuff for a hundred other worlds, and then to discover their principles and construction! It needs neither matter nor foundation; let it run free; it can build as well [...]

How-To : An Example

by Anne Doolittle

Originally published on June 1, 1998

1. ha! I like this a lot 2. The first phrase may not be needed. 3. As clever as it is, I’m trying to justify the absence of sentence closures… yes, I think the irony in that works quite well. 4. You know this implies that Jesus, had he been married, would have been a [...]