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"My Only Swerving": Sentimentality In Contemporary Poetry, Andrew Hudgins

Syracuse Scholar (1979-1991)

The article looks at several contemporary poems to see how they succumb to sentimentality in their treatment of nature, while William Stafford's "Traveling through the Dark" does not .

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The Poem As A Reservoir For Grief, Tess Gallagher

Syracuse Scholar (1979-1991)

America is a nation perhaps almost ready for the serious work of grieving. While other methods for handling grief often neglect or trivialize the occasion, poems remain able to carry the density of a complex synthesis of spiritual, intellectual, and emotional perceptions

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Actions Taken, Philip Booth

Syracuse Scholar (1979-1991)

Philip Booth teaches in the Creative Writing Program at Syracuse University each spring but spends as much of the year as possible at his home in Maine. He is a frequent contributor of poetry to such magazines as The New Yorker and Harper's and is the author of several books. In 1980 he received a Fellowship in Writing from the National Endowment for the Arts. Most of the poems in Before Sleep were composed in the 130-year-old family house where the author's grandparents lived, and where his grandson represents a fifth generation.

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Poetic Imagination In Black Africa, Tanure Ojaide

Syracuse Scholar (1979-1991)

Tanure Ojaide, a native of Nigeria, received his Ph.D. in English from Syracuse University in 1981. Well known in his country as a poet and a teacher, he now teaches in the English Department at the University of Maiduguri.

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