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Trauma And Poetry. The Case Of Primo Levi, Ilona Klein Jun 2022

Trauma And Poetry. The Case Of Primo Levi, Ilona Klein

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Most North American readers have come to know and appreciate Primo Levi by his major works in prose. His The Periodic Table (1984) catapulted Levi onto the American stage of scientific-humanistic authors, having the New York Times named it among the Best Books of the Year in 1985. Instead, American readers will likely stumble upon Levi’s poetry by accident, simply because every now and then one of his poems in translation appears in print somewhere. Compared to Levi’s prose, his poems inevitably evoke a sense of unease, for their tone, their style and their content are so unlike the familiar, …


Not So Minor Feelings, Reshmi Dutt-Ballerstadt Jul 2020

Not So Minor Feelings, Reshmi Dutt-Ballerstadt

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This creative nonfiction essay by Reshmi Dutt-Ballerstadt about race, silencing, and families originally appeared in Entropy.


Review Of Fly Already, Michael F. Russo Sep 2019

Review Of Fly Already, Michael F. Russo

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Review Of I Heart Oklahoma, Michael F. Russo Aug 2019

Review Of I Heart Oklahoma, Michael F. Russo

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No abstract provided.


Review Of Song For The Unraveling Of The World, Michael F. Russo Jun 2019

Review Of Song For The Unraveling Of The World, Michael F. Russo

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Review Of The History Of Living Forever, Michael F. Russo May 2019

Review Of The History Of Living Forever, Michael F. Russo

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Review Of The Altruists, Michael F. Russo Feb 2019

Review Of The Altruists, Michael F. Russo

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A book review of the debut novel by Andrew Ridker.


Five Poems From Born Into By Uwe Kolbe, Louise Stoehr Jan 2019

Five Poems From Born Into By Uwe Kolbe, Louise Stoehr

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Review Of Lost And Wanted, Michael F. Russo Nov 2018

Review Of Lost And Wanted, Michael F. Russo

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Thoughts And Prayers, Christopher T. Keaveney May 2018

Thoughts And Prayers, Christopher T. Keaveney

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This poem by Christopher T. Keaveney originally appeared in Clementine Unbound.


Peach Blossom Spring, Christopher T. Keaveney Apr 2018

Peach Blossom Spring, Christopher T. Keaveney

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This poem by Chris Keaveney originally appeared in Anapest.


On Slim Whitman And How Irony Entered The World, Christopher T. Keaveney Mar 2018

On Slim Whitman And How Irony Entered The World, Christopher T. Keaveney

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This poem by Christopher T. Keaveney originally appeared in The Ekphrastic Review.


14°40'35.5"N 92°08'50.4"W Suchiate, Chiapas, Cheyla Samuelson, Balam Rodrigo Mar 2018

14°40'35.5"N 92°08'50.4"W Suchiate, Chiapas, Cheyla Samuelson, Balam Rodrigo

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Translation of the poem “14°40'35.5"N 92°08'50.4"W - Suchiate, Chiapas” by Balam Rodrigo, from his unpublished book The Central American Book of the Dead.


You Will Hear Each Question Only Once, Christopher T. Keaveney Jan 2018

You Will Hear Each Question Only Once, Christopher T. Keaveney

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This poem by Christopher Keaveney originally appeared in Ink.


How Not To Cull Wild Horses, Christopher T. Keaveney Jan 2018

How Not To Cull Wild Horses, Christopher T. Keaveney

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This poem by Christopher T. Keaveney was first published in MockingHeart Review.


Review Of Such Good Work, Michael F. Russo Jan 2018

Review Of Such Good Work, Michael F. Russo

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No abstract provided.


The Thin Blue Line Of Theodicy: Flannery O’Connor, Teilhard De Chardin, And Competitions Between Good/Good And Evil/Evil, Sue Whatley Jan 2018

The Thin Blue Line Of Theodicy: Flannery O’Connor, Teilhard De Chardin, And Competitions Between Good/Good And Evil/Evil, Sue Whatley

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This essay explores the concept of theodicy in Flannery O’Connor’s works of fiction. O’Connor’s fiction complicates the subjects of good and evil, moving the reader through what seem to be competitions not only between good and evil, but also between actions of good and actions of evil. Characters align themselves with one force, then another, in a constantly fluctuating system, and there is no traditional pattern of Christian warfare that we would expect orthodox Catholic writing to produce. Sometimes, evil brings about the resolution of the narratives, and sometimes actions of good fail to redeem. It is only through the …


Five Poems From Miss Suki, Or America Is Not Far By Utz Rachowski, Louise Stoehr Jan 2018

Five Poems From Miss Suki, Or America Is Not Far By Utz Rachowski, Louise Stoehr

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No abstract provided.


Alone In The Crowd: Appropriated Text And Subjectivity In The Work Of Rirkrit Tiravanija, Liz Linden Jul 2016

Alone In The Crowd: Appropriated Text And Subjectivity In The Work Of Rirkrit Tiravanija, Liz Linden

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The practice of Thai artist Rirkrit Tiravanija is perhaps the best-known exemplar of relational aesthetics, a distinction first made by Nicholas Bourriaud and affirmed in the writings of many subsequent art critics; but the critical focus on the interactive aspect of his works has tended to rely on utopian modes of community engagement, which ignore Tiravanija's strategic deployment of relational, interactive structures to implicate the viewer, publicly, in problematic political positions. Tiravanija commonly uses appropriation in his artworks as a way of exposing viewer's biases and this paper focuses specifically on his use of appropriated text to explore divided subjectivities …


Blade, José Angel Araguz Jan 2016

Blade, José Angel Araguz

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This poem by José Angel Araguz was awarded the University of Cincinnati Graduate Poetry Prize in 2016 and appeared on the official website of the Academy of American Poets.


La Llorona At The Saloon, José Angel Araguz Jan 2016

La Llorona At The Saloon, José Angel Araguz

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This poem by José Angel Araguz originally appeared in Aster(ix).


Story Of The Salt Doll, José Angel Araguz Jan 2016

Story Of The Salt Doll, José Angel Araguz

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This poem by José Angel Araguz originally appeared in The Inflectionist Review.


The Story Of Eyes, José Angel Araguz Jan 2016

The Story Of Eyes, José Angel Araguz

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This poem by José Angel Araguz originally appeared in The Inflectionist Review.


El Rio, José Angel Araguz Jan 2016

El Rio, José Angel Araguz

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This poem by José Angel Araguz originally appeared in Crab Creek Review. “El Rio” comes from trying to move beyond predictable tropes about border crossing and work out how the river makes itself known, through dreams as well as everyday occurrences of profiling, and unignorable.


Cazar Means To Hunt Not To Marry, José Angel Araguz Jan 2016

Cazar Means To Hunt Not To Marry, José Angel Araguz

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This poem by José Angel Araguz originally appeared in December.


Freckles, José Angel Araguz Jan 2016

Freckles, José Angel Araguz

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This poem by José Angel Araguz originally appeared in The Indianola Review.


Night Sky Manifesto, José Angel Araguz Jan 2016

Night Sky Manifesto, José Angel Araguz

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This poem by José Angel Araguz originally appeared in The Inflectionist Review.


The Music Inside, José Angel Araguz Jan 2016

The Music Inside, José Angel Araguz

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This poem by José Angel Araguz originally appeared in The Inflectionist Review.


Alien, José Angel Araguz Jan 2016

Alien, José Angel Araguz

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This poem by José Angel Araguz originally appeared in Crab Creek Review.


On Being Called Jorge, José Angel Araguz Jan 2016

On Being Called Jorge, José Angel Araguz

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This poem by José Angel Araguz originally appeared in The Indianola Review.