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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
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 …
Missed Communication: Three New Anthologies On The City Visible: Chicago Poetry For The New Century, Allegrezza & Bianchi, Eds (Cracked Slab, 2007); Lyric Postmodernisms, Reginald Shepherd, Ed. (Counterpath Press, 2008); & Triquarterly #128, The “Ultra-Talk” Issue, Hamby & Kirby, Eds., Michael Theune
Michael Theune
In “The Flexible Lyric” (from The Flexible Lyric; Athens, GA: U of Georgia P, 1999), Ellen Bryant Voigt makes a “long aside” in order “to admit unseemly optimism regarding the American poetry wars,” writing
Originally published in Pleiades: A Journal of New Writing and used with permission.
Michael Theune's Response To "Some Darker Bouquets", Michael Theune
Michael Theune's Response To "Some Darker Bouquets", Michael Theune
Michael Theune
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Contradictory Keats: A Review Of Stanley Plumly's Posthumous Keats: A Personal Biography, Michael Theune
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
The Value Of Man, Michael Theune
Martinalia, Michael Theune
Try To Change The Mutilated World, Michael Theune
Try To Change The Mutilated World, Michael Theune
Michael Theune
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Writing Degree ∞ (On Recent Haiku), Michael Theune
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 …
The Non-Turning Of Recent American Poetry On David Caplan's Questions Of Possibility: Centemporary Poetry And Poetic Form, Michael Theune
The Non-Turning Of Recent American Poetry On David Caplan's Questions Of Possibility: Centemporary Poetry And Poetic Form, Michael Theune
Michael Theune
David Caplan’s Questions of Possibility: Contemporary Poetry and Poetic Form (Oxford University Press, 2005) is a good and necessary book that teaches or reinforces some vital lessons about poetry and poetic form. According to Caplan, his book is a necessary corrective, a check on “our current understanding of poetic form, especially contemporary metrical verse” which Caplan describes as emerging from the ever-perpetuated, and perpetuating, over-simplified binaries of the poetry wars—open/closed, Language/New Formalist—and which Caplan labels simply adequate.”
Originally published in Pleiades: A Journal of New Writing and used with permission.
The Vow, Michael Theune
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
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
Poetic Structure And Poetic Form: The Necessary Differentiation, Michael Theune
Michael Theune
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It Not Do Fall For: On The Paradelle, Michael Theune
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
A Conversaton On The Objective Reading Of Poems, Michael Theune, Barbara Hamby, Kevin Prufer
A Conversaton On The Objective Reading Of Poems, Michael Theune, Barbara Hamby, Kevin Prufer
Michael Theune
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Wit's Worth: A Reflection On Contemporary American Poetry On Created In Darkness By Troubled Americans, Michael Theune
Wit's Worth: A Reflection On Contemporary American Poetry On Created In Darkness By Troubled Americans, Michael Theune
Michael Theune
Near the beginning of last century, Ezra Pound proclaimed that poetry should be at least as well-written as prose. Near the end of that same century, Charles Bernstein declared that poetry should be at least as interesting as TV. The start of a new century brings with it a new demand for poetry: poetry must be at least as witty, as knowing and as surprising as Created in Darkness by Troubled Americans. And, though it may not seem so at first, this silly—and disturbing, and wonderful—book offers serious lessons for and challenges to contemporary American poetry at all levels: …
Hallowmas, Michael Theune
Structure And Surprise: A New Paradigm For Teaching Poetry, Michael Theune
Structure And Surprise: A New Paradigm For Teaching Poetry, Michael Theune
Michael Theune
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Europe, Michael Theune
Some Considerations Of (Untitled), Michael Theune
Some Considerations Of (Untitled), Michael Theune
Michael Theune
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But Seriously, Folks... A Few Words On Wit, Michael Theune
But Seriously, Folks... A Few Words On Wit, Michael Theune
Michael Theune
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Faux, Flawed, Failed: Alice Fulton's Fuzzy Poetry And Poetics On Cascade Experiment By Alice Fulton, Michael Theune
Faux, Flawed, Failed: Alice Fulton's Fuzzy Poetry And Poetics On Cascade Experiment By Alice Fulton, Michael Theune
Michael Theune
Alice Fulton is a poet and a theoretician who, for over 25 years, has tried to make much of, and even to occupy, this new fuzzy space. As many of her notebook entries (collected in The Poet’s Notebook: Excerpts from the Notebooks of Contemporary American Poets. Ed. Stephen Kuusisto, et al. NY: W.W. Norton, 1995) attest to, Fulton refers to and privileges the gap, the between. One entry mulls over the possibilities opened up by fuzzy logic, stating, “Conventional logic is based on the idea that a statement…is either true or false. Fuzzy logic deals with the degree of truth, …
Reginald Shepherd's The Iowa Anthology Of New American Poetries, Michael Theune
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
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
"The Need Gotta Be": Image And Integrity In Yusef Komunyakaa's Poetry, Michael Theune
"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.
Miranda Field's Swallow, Michael Theune
Song And Dance By Alan Shapiro, Michael Theune
Song And Dance By Alan Shapiro, Michael Theune
Michael Theune
Review originally published in Verse, Volume 19, Numbers 3/Volume 20, Number 1, 2003, pages 241-245.
Some Thoughts On 'A Mind Thinking', Michael Theune
Some Thoughts On 'A Mind Thinking', Michael Theune
Michael Theune
No abstract provided.