Thursday, January 23, 2014

Aiming High, Aiming Low, and Landing in Jail: Poetry and Risk

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“We are all Tunisia in the face of the repressive,” wrote the Qatari poet Muhammad ibn al-Dheed al-Ajami, in a poem prais...
Wednesday, January 22, 2014

In Which I Opine: An Interview in Critical Margins

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There's an interview with me up over at the Critical Margins  sit e.  The occasion is my book The Poet Resigns , but the discussion ...
Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Who's the Man? — Poetry, Gender, and Authority

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"Who's the man?"—the question itself contains something like an answer, since it presupposes an overlap between authority ...
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Friday, January 17, 2014

The Wound and the Self: Notes on Rousseau, Individualism, and Mystical Experience

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So the new semester has begun, and I find I'm teaching the Romantic poets again.   I'm always struck by the strange ...
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Thursday, January 16, 2014

Women's Afro-Caribbean Surrealism Hits the New York Times

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Being a fan of Afro-Caribbean surrealist poetry can be a sort of lonely business: if you hang out in poetry circles, you'll sometime...
Wednesday, January 01, 2014

Poets, Community, and the New Gnosticism

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Rejoice!  The January issues of the literary magazines are hitting the shelves and going live online!  If you look hard enough into the ...
Wednesday, December 18, 2013

Life, Barely: Notes on Clive James

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Lady Diana Cooper Everyone is connected to everyone, the saying goes, by no more than six degrees of separation.  Between...
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