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Selected Works

Michael Theune

Selected Works

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Impolitic: Kent Johnson's Radical Hybridity On Doubled Flowering: From The Notebooks Of Araki Yasusada (Roof Books, 1997), Epigramititis: 118 Living American Poets (Blazevox, 2004), Lyric Poetry After Auschwitz: Eleven Submissions To The War (Effing Press, 2005), I Once Met (Longhouse, 2007), And Homage To The Last Avant-Garde (Shearsman Books, 2008), Michael Theune Dec 2009

Impolitic: Kent Johnson's Radical Hybridity On Doubled Flowering: From The Notebooks Of Araki Yasusada (Roof Books, 1997), Epigramititis: 118 Living American Poets (Blazevox, 2004), Lyric Poetry After Auschwitz: Eleven Submissions To The War (Effing Press, 2005), I Once Met (Longhouse, 2007), And Homage To The Last Avant-Garde (Shearsman Books, 2008), Michael Theune

Michael Theune

The past twenty years in American poetry have given rise to middle space poetry, poetry—sometimes labeled “Third Way,” “Hybrid,” and/or “Elliptical”—that situates itself in the middle space between mainstream/lyric and avant-garde/experimental aesthetics. While work in the middle space by now should have added up to an important and fruitful development in contemporary poetry—for there is much shared ground for these aesthetics to explore—middle space thinking and poetry for the most part has been very problematic. Paradoxically, the problems of the middle space—especially as it is presented in its three key anthologies: Reginald Shepherd’s The Iowa Anthology of New American Poetries …


Contradictory Keats: A Review Of Stanley Plumly's Posthumous Keats: A Personal Biography, Michael Theune Dec 2008

Contradictory Keats: A Review Of Stanley Plumly's Posthumous Keats: A Personal Biography, Michael Theune

Michael Theune

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Letter To The Editor, Michael Theune Dec 2008

Letter To The Editor, Michael Theune

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The Value Of Man, Michael Theune Nov 2008

The Value Of Man, Michael Theune

Michael Theune

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Martinalia, Michael Theune Nov 2008

Martinalia, Michael Theune

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Try To Change The Mutilated World, Michael Theune Nov 2008

Try To Change The Mutilated World, Michael Theune

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Writing Degree ∞ (On Recent Haiku), Michael Theune Dec 2007

Writing Degree ∞ (On Recent Haiku), Michael Theune

Michael Theune

On the following: Hipster Haiku. Siobhan Adcock. Broadway Books, 2006. She Was Just Seventeen. Billy Collins. Modern Haiku Press, 2006. Gnoetry. Eric Elshtain & John Trowbridge. www.beardofbees.com Listen to the Landscape. Linda Nemec Foster & Dianne Carroll Burdick. William B. Eerdman’s Publishing Co., 2006. Hockey Haiku: The Essential Collection. John Poch and Chad Davidson. Thomas Dunne Books, 2006. Office Haiku: Poems Inspired by the Daily Grind. James Rogauskas. Thomas Dunne Books, 2006. Haiku Mama. Kari Anne Roy. Quirk Books, 2006. Wheat and Distance. Austin Smith. Longhouse, 2007. Baseball Haiku: The Best Haiku …


Mr. Del Elsworth, A Claims Adjuster, Lived In North Dakota, Where He Tried To Figure Out The Meanings Of Some Well-Known Haiku, Michael Theune Dec 2006

Mr. Del Elsworth, A Claims Adjuster, Lived In North Dakota, Where He Tried To Figure Out The Meanings Of Some Well-Known Haiku, Michael Theune

Michael Theune

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Poetic Structure And Poetic Form: The Necessary Differentiation, Michael Theune Dec 2006

Poetic Structure And Poetic Form: The Necessary Differentiation, Michael Theune

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It Not Do Fall For: On The Paradelle, Michael Theune Dec 2006

It Not Do Fall For: On The Paradelle, Michael Theune

Michael Theune

With the invention of the paradelle form by poet Billy Collins and the furtherance of the paradelle in Theresa M. Welford’s The Paradelle: An Anthology (Red Hen Press, 2005), a new hoax has entered poetry’s domain. However, while somewhat similar to Warner’s hoaxes, the paradelle hoax is in many ways unique, and uniquely problematic—though increasingly interesting.

Originally published in Pleiades: A Journal of New Writing and used with permission.


Building Dwelling, Michael Theune Dec 2006

Building Dwelling, Michael Theune

Michael Theune

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A Conversaton On The Objective Reading Of Poems, Michael Theune, Barbara Hamby, Kevin Prufer Dec 2006

A Conversaton On The Objective Reading Of Poems, Michael Theune, Barbara Hamby, Kevin Prufer

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Structure And Surprise: A New Paradigm For Teaching Poetry, Michael Theune Dec 2005

Structure And Surprise: A New Paradigm For Teaching Poetry, Michael Theune

Michael Theune

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Europe, Michael Theune Dec 2005

Europe, Michael Theune

Michael Theune

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Some Considerations Of (Untitled), Michael Theune Dec 2005

Some Considerations Of (Untitled), Michael Theune

Michael Theune

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But Seriously, Folks... A Few Words On Wit, Michael Theune Dec 2005

But Seriously, Folks... A Few Words On Wit, Michael Theune

Michael Theune

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Reginald Shepherd's The Iowa Anthology Of New American Poetries, Michael Theune Dec 2004

Reginald Shepherd's The Iowa Anthology Of New American Poetries, Michael Theune

Michael Theune

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Resistance To The Resistance To Poetry On The Resistance To Poetry, Michael Theune Dec 2004

Resistance To The Resistance To Poetry On The Resistance To Poetry, Michael Theune

Michael Theune

James Longenbach’s previous book of criticism, Modern Poetry after Modernism (Oxford: Oxford UP, 1997), opens by reworking Randall Jarrell’s claim in the essay "The End of the Line" that "Romantic poetry holds in solution contradictory tendencies which, isolated and exaggerated in modernism, look startlingly opposed to each other and to the earlier stages of romanticism." Replacing the references to romanticism with modernism, and the reference to modernism with postmodernism, Longenbach begins his argument against the continued use of the "breakthrough narrative," a faulty critical construct based on an overly simple idea of a too-easy distinction between modernism and postmodernism, suggesting …


Andrew Joron's Fathom, Michael Theune Sep 2004

Andrew Joron's Fathom, Michael Theune

Michael Theune

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"The Need Gotta Be": Image And Integrity In Yusef Komunyakaa's Poetry, Michael Theune Dec 2003

"The Need Gotta Be": Image And Integrity In Yusef Komunyakaa's Poetry, Michael Theune

Michael Theune

Review originally published in Verse, The Prose Issue II, Volume 20, Numbers 2 & 3, 2004, pages 199-209.


Some Thoughts On 'A Mind Thinking', Michael Theune Dec 2002

Some Thoughts On 'A Mind Thinking', Michael Theune

Michael Theune

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The Late Letters Of Arthur Rimbaud, Michael Theune Aug 2001

The Late Letters Of Arthur Rimbaud, Michael Theune

Michael Theune

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The Late Letters Of Arthur Rimbaud, Michael Theune Aug 2001

The Late Letters Of Arthur Rimbaud, Michael Theune

Michael Theune

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The Song, Michael Theune Dec 2000

The Song, Michael Theune

Michael Theune

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Totem And Shadow: New And Selected Poems By Paul Hoover, Michael Theune Dec 2000

Totem And Shadow: New And Selected Poems By Paul Hoover, Michael Theune

Michael Theune

Review originally published in Verse, Volume 17, Numbers 2 & 3/Volume 18, Number 1, 2001, pages 368-372.


Swarm By Jorie Graham, Michael Theune Dec 2000

Swarm By Jorie Graham, Michael Theune

Michael Theune

Review originally published in Verse, Volume 17, Numbers 2 & 3/Volume 18, Number 1, 2001, pages 362-364.


Selected Poems By Peter Redgrove, Michael Theune Dec 2000

Selected Poems By Peter Redgrove, Michael Theune

Michael Theune

Review originally published in Verse, Volume 17, Numbers 2 & 3/Volume 18, Number 1, 2001, pages 390-393.


'One And One Are One'... And Two: An Inquiry Into Dickinson's Use Of Mathematical Signs, Michael Theune Dec 2000

'One And One Are One'... And Two: An Inquiry Into Dickinson's Use Of Mathematical Signs, Michael Theune

Michael Theune

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Orthoparadoxy: The Temptation (From The Modern Testament), Michael Theune Dec 1999

Orthoparadoxy: The Temptation (From The Modern Testament), Michael Theune

Michael Theune

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How Many More Of Them Are You? By Lisa Lubasch, Michael Theune Dec 1999

How Many More Of Them Are You? By Lisa Lubasch, Michael Theune

Michael Theune

Review originally published in Verse, Volume 16, Numbers 3/Volume 17, Number 1, 2000, pages 134-135.