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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, …

Five Poems From Born Into By Uwe Kolbe, Louise Stoehr

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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

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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

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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

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Translation of the poem “14°40'35.5"N 92°08'50.4"W - Suchiate, Chiapas” by Balam Rodrigo, from his unpublished book The Central American Book of the Dead.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

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This poem by Christopher Keaveney originally appeared in Ink.

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.

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

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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

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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

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

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

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

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

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This poem by José Angel Araguz originally appeared in December.

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

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

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

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

On Being Called Jorge, José Angel Araguz

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

Cornflower, José Angel Araguz

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

Midnight, José Angel Araguz

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

Distinguished Poet José Angel Araguz: The Interview, José Angel Araguz, A. Molotkov, John Sibley Williams

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This interview with poet José Angel Araguz originally appeared in The Inflectionist Review.

Leave, José Angel Araguz

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

The Poetry Of John Dewey, Jerry L. Williams

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This essay examines the poetry of John Dewey, 101 poems in total. Characteristic of the rhymed and metered poetry of the period, they show a very human side of Dewey. This analysis argues that many of his poems deal with existential themes—love, finitude, and God, for example. On a deeper level these poems are also show connections to Dewey’s philosophy, in particular his ideas about social change and dualism.

The Obsessional Information Professional: Four Decades Of Versifying Libraries And Librarians, Richard Hacken

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Occasional poetry and parodies written by Richard Hacken from the 1980s to 2016 in honor of libraries and librarians:

In chronological order from the Harold B. Lee Library: John Taylor; Janet O. Francis; Gerald K. Dick; Sterling Albrecht; Roy Daniel; Keith Stirling; Don Howard; Haybron Adams; Christina Almond; Marvin Wiggins; Gary Gillum; Susan Fales; Randy Olsen; Richard Jensen; Karen Griggs; Deb Hatch; Julene Butler; Mark Grover; Tom Wright; Marianne Siegmund

Occasions: retirements, HBLL Christmas parties, introductions, farewells, BYU Library School reunion

From Northwestern University: Jeff Garrett. From Harvard University: Charles Fineman. From University of Wisconsin: Barbara Walden. From University of …

Joe, José Angel Araguz

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This poem by José Angel Araguz originally appeared in RHINO Poetry and placed first in its 2015 Editors' Prizes.

Gentleman, José Angel Araguz

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This poem by José Angel Araguz originally appeared in Apple Valley Review: A Journal of Contemporary Literature.

José Angel Araguz comments on "Gentleman":
My father’s death and absence from my life keeps coming up on the page. It is both a talisman that makes me grateful for each day I live as well as a source of wonder and perseverance. Since poems, via white space whether stanza breaks or paragraphs, engage and subsist on the unspoken, it is only natural for this conversation between us to continue.

Our Lady, José Angel Araguz

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This poem by José Angel Araguz originally appeared in Apple Valley Review: A Journal of Contemporary Literature.

José Angel Araguz comments on "Our Lady":
The vision in this poem really happened; I remember my aunt coming home from a trip to Mexico visibly shaken. I was raised by only my mother and aunt, with my aunt being the hard-nosed disciplinarian. To see her shook up was something new. One detail that lives around the poem but didn’t make it in is that she quit heavy drinking for a while after this incident.