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Touch, John Ditsky

Ontario Review

John Ditsky of the University of Windsor is the author of numerous poems, critical essays, and reviews that have appeared in many North American literary magazines. His most recent book of poems is Friend & Lover (Ontario Review Press).

Alternative Lives; Benjamin Robert Haydon (1786-1846) And The Two Blue Glasses, Constance Urdang

Ontario Review

Constance Urdang's most recent book of poems is Only the World. The University of Pittsburgh Press will bring out her new and selected poems in 1986. She teaches at Washington University in St. Louis and was a visiting lecturer at Princeton in 1985.

The World; The Arena Of Civilization, Jon Davis

Ontario Review

Jon Davis recently completed an MFA at the University of Montana, where he won the Academy of American Poets Award and edited Cutbank. His chapbook West of New England received the Merriam Award (1983), and he has published lately in Poetry, Georgia Review, Tendril, and elsewhere.

The Wedding; Cracow, Ruth Whitman

Ontario Review

Ruth Whitman, a resident of Brookline, Massachusetts, is the author of several volumes of poery, including The Marriage Wig, The Passion of Lizzie Borden, and Permanent Address.

Rene's Husband; The Shawl, Frederick Feirstein

Ontario Review

Frederick Feirstein, a New Yorker, most recently published Manhattan Carnival: A Dramatic Monologue. "The Shawl" is from a new manuscript, Stubborn Spring; "Renee's Husband," from a book-length poem in progress, The Psychiatrist at the Cocktail Party.

Post Subject: A Fable, Oliver De La Paz

University of Akron Press Publications

Ecstatic and obsessive, the prose poems that make up Oliver de la Paz's Post Subject: A Fable reveal the monuments of a lost country. Through a series of epistles addressed to "Empire" a catalog emerges, where what can be tallied is noted in a ledger, what can be claimed is demarcated, and what has been reaped is elided. The task of deposing the late century is taken up. What's salvaged from the remains is humanity.

Variation Within Uniformity: The English Romantic Sonnet, Thomas Hamilton Cherry

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

The English Romantic poets of the early nineteenth century wrote numerous poems from genres and styles all across the poetic spectrum. From the epics of ancient origin concerning kings and fanciful settings to the political odes on fallen leaders and even the anthropological histories of what it meant to live in their time, these poets stretched their stylistic legs in many ways. One of the most interesting is their use of the short and rule-bound sonnet form that enjoyed a reemergence during their time. Though stylized throughout its existence, the sonnet most often falls into a specific form with guidelines …

Fire Watcher By Vivian Demuth, Anna Banks

The Goose

Review of Fire Watcher by Vivian Demuth.

Isaac Watts And The Culture Of Dissent, Andrew Eli M. Yeater

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

Although Isaac Watts wrote hymns in the early eighteenth century, some of his hymns, such as “Joy to the World,” “Alas! And Did My Savior Bleed?,” and “When I Survey the Wondrous Cross,” survive today as well-known hymns. However, little has been written about the rhetorical effects of his hymns. This thesis demonstrates that, like any other literary work, Watts’ hymns can be analyzed rhetorically. This thesis analyzes Watts’ hymns with the aid of Louis Montrose’s New Historicism, showing how Watts’ hymns were impacted by the English culture in which he lived and how they impacted the religious culture to …

Ornithologies Of Desire: Ecocritical Essays, Avian Poetics, And Don Mckay By Travis V. Mason, Maureen Scott Harris

The Goose

Review of Ornithologies of Desire: Ecocritical Essays, Avian Poetics, and Don McKay by Travis V. Mason.

Supplying Salt And Light By Lorna Goodison, Pamela Herron

The Goose

Review of Supplying Salt and Light by Lorna Goodison.

Late Moon By Pamela Porter And The Family China By Ann Shin, Lindsay Diehl

The Goose

Review of Late Moon by Pamela Porter and The Family China by Ann Shin.

The Polymers By Adam Dickinson, Camilla Nelson

The Goose

Review of The Polymers by Adam Dickinson.

Kashmiri Marsiya (Elegy) Manuscripts: The Valuable Sources For The Dissemination, Reconstruction And Safeguarding The History And Culture-Ii, Tawfeeq Nazir

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Manuscripts are the links to the historical facts that will otherwise remain unknown to the world. They contain authentic information and facts about the social, political and cultural aspects of a nation. Therefore their intellectual value cannot be over emphasized. Many countries and nations are joining hands towards preserving such cultural assets by way of taking conservation and preservation measures including digitization and documentation.

Marsiya or Elegy has gained more importance after the Martyrdom of Imam Hussain (a.s) and his companions and household in Karbala. Marsiya has been since written and recited in order to mourning the tragic events of …

Because A Fire, A Lover's Quarrel: Poems, Clifton Clyde Ward

Master's Theses

This thesis comprises poems written and/or revised over the past two years. They mark the development of my aesthetic and writing ability thus far and are representative of the training and practice incited by my own efforts and those of my professors during my enrollment in the Master of Arts degree in English, Creative Writing emphasis. The majority of these poems are written in an open form, and all of them fall under three general categories: autobiographical, absurdist, or formal.

Reincarnation, Goodbye: 1992, Constance Urdang

Ontario Review

Constance Urdang is the author of a number of books, including Alternative Lives, poems (Pittsburgh), and The Woman Who Reads Novels and Peacetime, novellas (Coffee House Press). She lives in St. Louis.

Making Money, The Ugly Step Sister, Denise Duhamel

Ontario Review

Denise Duhamel of Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, has poems in current issues of The Harvard Review and Westbranch, and her work will be represented in Best American Poetry 1993.

Bible Studies, By Huron, John R. Reed

Ontario Review

John R. Reed has published two books of poetry, as well as several scholarly books. His poems and short stories have appeared in Michigan Quarterly Review, Poetry, Paris Review, and many other journals. A contributing editor to OR, he is a Distinguished Professor of English at Wayne State University in Detroit.

Outing, Such A State, Eamon Grennan

Ontario Review

Eamon Grennan's most recent book of poems, As If It Matters, appeared from Greywolf in 1992. A former OR contributor, he teaches at Vassar College.

Pace, Stones And Soil, Walking To An Eight O'Clock Class, Gray Jacobik

Ontario Review

Gray Jacobik has new poems in the Connecticut Review, Louisiana Literature, and Wisconsin Review. A recipient this year of an NEA Fellowship, she teaches at Eastern Connecticut State University.

Among The Stars, Eidolons, The Meeting, The Shopper, William Heyen

Ontario Review

William Heyen, a frequent OR contributor, published Ribbons: The Gulf War last year. The Host: Selected Poems 1965-1990 will appear next spring from Time Being Books. He teaches at SUNY Brockport.

From Oh How Can I Keep On Singing?, Jana Harris

Ontario Review

Jana Harris has published several books of poetry, including The Sourlands (OR Press, 1989), and a novel Alaska (1980). OR Press will be bringing out Oh How Can I Keep on Singing? in November. Raised in the Pacific Northwest, she lives with her husband in the foothills of the Cascade Mountains where they raise horses.

Last Request, Greg Johnson

Ontario Review

Greg Johnson's most recent books are Pagan Babies, a. novel (Dutton, 1993), and Aid and Comfort, poems (Univ. Press of Florida, 1993). He lives in Atlanta, Georgia.

Cornelia Street: 6 A.M., Railroad Bridge, Far From Home, Bees, Nicholas Chistropher

Ontario Review

Nicholas Christopher has published four books of poems, most recendy In the Year of the Comet (Viking Penguin, 1992). Viking will bring out his fifth book, 5° and Other Poems in 1994. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry for 1993-94, he lives in New York City.

Folk Song: On The Road Again, Swept, Hayden Carruth

Ontario Review

Hayden Carruth has published 28 books, chiefly poetry but including also a novel, four books of criticism, and two anthologies. His most recent books are Suicides and Jazzers (1992) and The Collected Shorter Poems, 1946-91 (1992), the latter winning this year's National Book Critics Circle Award.

Mark Rothko: Three Paintings, Woodland Spring, Alicia Ostriker

Ontario Review

Alicia Ostriker is the author of seven books of poems, most recently Green Age (Pittsburgh, 1989). Her Feminist Revision and the Bible was published earlier this year in the Bucknell Lectures in Literary Theory series by Blackwell. A contributing editor to OR, she teaches at Rutgers University.

Homage To N. (After Chekhov), Daniel Halpern

Ontario Review

Daniel Halpern is the author of seven collections, most recently Foreign Neon (Knopf, 1991) and Tango (Viking Penguin, 1987). He has edited numerous volumes, including The Art of the Tale: An International Anthology of Short Stories. Knopf will release his Selected Poems in April 1994. Publisher of the Ecco Press and Antaeus, he lives in Princeton, New Jersey.

The Muse And The Poet, The Naturalist At Large On The Delaware River, An Acquaintance In The Heavens, I Think Continually Of Those Who Went Truly Ape, Free Fall, Annie Dillard

Ontario Review

Annie Dillard's most recent book is her novel The Living (HarperCollins, 1992). Her poetry has appeared in the Atlantic, Harper's, Poetry, and many other journals. She lives in South Wellfleet, Massachusetts.

Wild Life, Jordan Abel

The Goose

Poetry by Jordan Abel. This poem is composed from 91 public domain Western novels that are freely available on Project Gutenberg. In total, the source text is over 10,000 pages long and is authored by 20 different writers. When all of the novels were searched simultaneously, there were 41 instances of the phrase "wild life." The resulting poem provides a contextual space where the language of a single word or phrase can be read.

The Math Of Achilles, Geoffrey A. Landis

Journal of Humanistic Mathematics

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