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Supplying Salt And Light By Lorna Goodison, Pamela Herron Jan 2015

Supplying Salt And Light By Lorna Goodison, Pamela Herron

Pamela Herron

Review of Supplying Salt and Light by Lorna Goodison.


America In Verse: The Laureate Project, Leah Kind, Dan Gleason, Erin Micklo, Margaret T. Cain Mar 2014

America In Verse: The Laureate Project, Leah Kind, Dan Gleason, Erin Micklo, Margaret T. Cain

Dan Gleason

The purpose of this project is to allow students to use their (developing) skills of poetic explication and close reading, combined with research and analysis, to discover and establish a solid case for a poet they will nominate as the next American Poet Laureate. Working in groups of 3-4, students will identify a published, living American poet who has not yet been designated a laureate. The project demands a wide array of skills as the students research bibliographic information on the poet: read and analyze the poet’s body of work and select one central poem to represent that poet; amass …


Hands, Holly Butchyk Dec 2011

Hands, Holly Butchyk

Holly Butchyk

No abstract provided.


Poe-Tic Justice, Holly Butchyk Dec 2011

Poe-Tic Justice, Holly Butchyk

Holly Butchyk

No abstract provided.


Pool Party, Holly Butchyk Dec 2011

Pool Party, Holly Butchyk

Holly Butchyk

No abstract provided.


Journey Of Bread, Holly Butchyk Dec 2011

Journey Of Bread, Holly Butchyk

Holly Butchyk

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‘The Stones I Shaped Endure’: Dickinsonian Pastiche In A.S. Byatt’S Possession, Robert Bray Dec 2010

‘The Stones I Shaped Endure’: Dickinsonian Pastiche In A.S. Byatt’S Possession, Robert Bray

Robert Bray

This is a previously unpublished meditation on A. S. Byatt's use of Emily Dickinson-like pastiche poetry in the novel 'Possession.'


Selecting Three Poems By W. Stevens: A Roundtable Discussion, Alan Filreis Feb 2010

Selecting Three Poems By W. Stevens: A Roundtable Discussion, Alan Filreis

Alan Filreis

Three poems by Stevens indicate a particular aesthetic predicament, expressions of near-cessation: "Mozart, 1935," "The Man with the Blue Guitar," and "The Plain Sense of Things." In the third poem, the imagination re-emerges at precisely the point of its termination. In the second, the poet ventures into pure sound just when an ideological model for the poem collapses. In the first, the poem is the result of a dodge on the matter of others' pain.


Stevens In The 1930s, Alan Filreis Dec 2006

Stevens In The 1930s, Alan Filreis

Alan Filreis

An overview of Wallace Stevens' poetic response to radical poets and ideas in the American 1930s.