Differentials: Poetry, Poetics, Pedagogy

of the poetry itself. The one exception is a recent special issue of Nate Dor- ward’s excellent but little known Canadian journa ...

in the lavatory reading heros the spartan and the iron man ®ick ash in the bath trying to hit the plughole listen to the broom o ...

mean “an absolute failure, often in humiliating or embarrassing circum- stances.”^13 And in this sense, Raworth does have his da ...

Raworth does away with—on the contrary—but he does avoid those causal networks to which readers of magazine verse and popular an ...

the title—“new face”—and continues “from my home / what do you think / I’ll voice out / of the news.” A record is played “with a ...

trast are “bomb” and “depression.” What’s a bomb doing in this “history think” (perhaps an echo of Eliot’s “Gerontion,” where hi ...

grant interviews, “explain” the sources of his poetry, or participate in dis- course on poetics. Living in near poverty, he has ...

Comic as some of these distinctions sound, Duchamp took them quite seri- ously: indeed, no two of his famous boxes, no two of hi ...

Pius Servien rightly distinguished two languages: the language of sci- ence, dominated by the symbol of Equality, in which each ...

“The Garden” or Robert Frost’s “Once by the Paci¤c” prevented attention to textual and materialist poetics. Ce que dit la poésie ...

champ’s famous French window called Fresh Widow, and the readymade is further replicated in Duchamp’s various boxes and boîtes e ...

Audio-Ears, perhaps for a new hearing aid or repair of an old one, what does that signify vis-à-vis thoughts of death and Irelan ...

Fig. 1. Page 119 from The Midnight by Susan Howe (Copyright © 2003 Susan Howe. Used by permission) ...

form, and why, in this connection, is so much latter-day free verse so indif- ferent to the use of sound? All of the essays in D ...

originally a much longer manuscript, pruning and rearranging individual items so that they began to take shape. Hank’s long and ...

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One of our most common genres today is the epitaph for the humanities. A few years ago, for example, Robert Weisbuch, the presid ...

through a time when outrage with the newfangled in the humanities— with deconstruction or Marxism or whatever—has become plain l ...

Realms of King Arthur” at your local library, that is the humanities. When you read the diary of a seventeenth-century New Engla ...