Friday, March 27, 2015

Tomas Tranströmer, R.I.P.

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Thursday, March 12, 2015

The Face of Glamour

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I’ve seen a lot of them, lately: the bland, glamorous faces of models in advertisements for fashion and various luxurious commodities....
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Wednesday, March 11, 2015

What Rhymes with Wallace?: Wallace Stevens and Rhyme

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One of the unexpected pleasures of the recent Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900, for me, was running across A...
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Wednesday, February 25, 2015

John Ashbery and the Poetics of the Art World

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You're probably feeling something like despair if you know you can't make it to the University of Louisville for the 1:00 pm sessi...
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Monday, February 23, 2015

More from The Kafka Sutra: The Laurel Review's Prose Poetry Issue

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Great news!  The latest issue of The Laurel Review  is about to drop, and it amounts to a new anthology of the contemporary prose poem, e...
Friday, February 20, 2015

What “What Work Is” Is: The Importance of Philip Levine

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I met Philip Levine only twice, and both times thought he was a son of a bitch and really liked him for it.  But that’s not what I want ...
Saturday, February 14, 2015

Seven Romantic Poets Reviewed in Seven Lines: New at Lute & Drum

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New poetry by Nathaniel Mackey! Mark Scroggins (who else?) on Adorno and model soldiers!  A story by Magdalena Zurawaski! And much, much...
Friday, February 13, 2015

The Bourgeois Keats and the World of Capital

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Cockney? Sure.  Aesthete? Absolutely.  But John Keats also took many of his cues from the dominant culture of his time and ...