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Speech For The Wallace Stevens Society (Poem), John Gery Nov 2013

Speech For The Wallace Stevens Society (Poem), John Gery

John R O Gery

No abstract provided.


Sunset On Kalemegdan: Belgrade, Serbia, October 2000 (Poem), John Gery Nov 2013

Sunset On Kalemegdan: Belgrade, Serbia, October 2000 (Poem), John Gery

John R O Gery

No abstract provided.


Seepage (Poem), John Gery Nov 2013

Seepage (Poem), John Gery

John R O Gery

No abstract provided.


Unemployment (Poem), John Gery Nov 2013

Unemployment (Poem), John Gery

John R O Gery

No abstract provided.


“Giving Up The Ghost” And “Night Glimpse” (Poems), John Gery Nov 2013

“Giving Up The Ghost” And “Night Glimpse” (Poems), John Gery

John R O Gery

No abstract provided.


Two Mississippis (Poem), John Gery Nov 2013

Two Mississippis (Poem), John Gery

John R O Gery

No abstract provided.


Davenport's Version (Excerpt From Poem), John Gery Nov 2013

Davenport's Version (Excerpt From Poem), John Gery

John R O Gery

No abstract provided.


An Oblique Blackness: Reading Racial Formation In The Aesthetics Of George Elliott Clarke, Dionne Brand, And Wayde Compton, Jeremy D. Haynes B.A.H. Sep 2013

An Oblique Blackness: Reading Racial Formation In The Aesthetics Of George Elliott Clarke, Dionne Brand, And Wayde Compton, Jeremy D. Haynes B.A.H.

Jeremy D Haynes B.A.H.

This thesis examines how the poetics of George Elliott Clarke, Dionne Brand and Wayde Compton articulate unique aesthetic voices that are representative of a range of ethnic communities that collectively make-up blackness in Canada. Despite the different backgrounds, geographies, and ethnicities of these authors, blackness in Canada is regularly viewed as a homogeneous community that is most closely tied to the cultural histories of the American South and the Atlantic slave trade. Black Canadians have historically been excluded from the official narratives of the nation, disassociating blackness from Canadian-ness. Epithets such as “African-Canadian” are indicative of the way race distances …


Marathon Man, Peter C.S. Adams Mar 2013

Marathon Man, Peter C.S. Adams

Peter C.S. Adams

A poem inspired by the tragic bombing of the Boston Marathon, 2013.


Poems After Elul, Haim חיים O. Rechnitzer רכניצר Jan 2013

Poems After Elul, Haim חיים O. Rechnitzer רכניצר

Haim O Rechnitzer חיים א. רכניצר

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The Untiring Game, Yrene Santos, Isabel R. Espinal Jan 2013

The Untiring Game, Yrene Santos, Isabel R. Espinal

Isabel R Espinal

These are translations of most, but not all, the poems in the book El incansable juego, by Yrene Santos (Santo Domingo: Editorial Letra Gráfica: 2002). The poems that have not been translated were already translated elsewhere by others, according to the poet.