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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

Michael Theune

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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

Michael Theune

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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

Michael Theune

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

Michael Theune

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