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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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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
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
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, …
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.
The Subject Turns To Death, Michael Theune
November Valentine, Michael Theune
Another Quietist Controversy, Michael Theune
Rain Through High Windows By Edward Haworth Hoeppner, Michael Theune
Rain Through High Windows By Edward Haworth Hoeppner, Michael Theune
Michael Theune
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Othoparadoxy: Part Ii, Michael Theune
Othoparadoxy: Part Iii, Michael Theune
Vita Nova By Louise Gluck, Michael Theune
Vita Nova By Louise Gluck, Michael Theune
Michael Theune
Review originally published in Verse, Volume 16, Numbers 3/Volume 17, Number 1, 2000, pages 207-210.
Short Reviews, Michael Theune
The End Of The Alphabet By Claudia Rankine, Michael Theune
The End Of The Alphabet By Claudia Rankine, Michael Theune
Michael Theune
Review originally published in Verse, Volume 16, Numbers 2, 1999, pages 194-195.
To Begin An Even Knowing, Michael Theune
Three Thoughts On Sunset, April 21, Michael Theune
Three Thoughts On Sunset, April 21, Michael Theune
Michael Theune
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