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White Chicken Blog of Poetry and Poetics: Maurice Manning & the Job / Hamlet Archetype
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White Chicken Blog of Poetry and Poetics. A focused examination of contemporary poetry — carefully conceived and modestly apportioned – that attempts to regard, consider, and make the acquaintance of today’s poets and their work. Maurice Manning and the Job / Hamlet Archetype. Maurice Manning writes captivating characters, and the single speaker in his collection Bucolics. In the following poem, the speaker’s dream seems to accentuate his own powerlessness against understanding, that is, the limits...
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White Chicken Blog of Poetry and Poetics: 08/01/07
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White Chicken Blog of Poetry and Poetics. A focused examination of contemporary poetry — carefully conceived and modestly apportioned – that attempts to regard, consider, and make the acquaintance of today’s poets and their work. Joshua Poteat and Traversing Time and Space. In Joshua Poteat's poem "Hitchhiking in the Dying South" from Ornithologies. But it has more in common with Frost’s " Acquainted with the Night. Where naming is not just testimony, but heraldic badge:. The body of the cow. As part of ...
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White Chicken Blog of Poetry and Poetics: 08/01/09
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White Chicken Blog of Poetry and Poetics. A focused examination of contemporary poetry — carefully conceived and modestly apportioned – that attempts to regard, consider, and make the acquaintance of today’s poets and their work. No posts. Show all posts. No posts. Show all posts. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Doyle and The Ersatz Life. Olena Kalytiak Davis and the Lyric. Kevin Young and The Monumental Landscape. Seiferle and The Dual Narrative. Lynda Hull and Image. Morri Creech and Poetic Variation.
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White Chicken Blog of Poetry and Poetics: Doyle & The Ersatz Life
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White Chicken Blog of Poetry and Poetics. A focused examination of contemporary poetry — carefully conceived and modestly apportioned – that attempts to regard, consider, and make the acquaintance of today’s poets and their work. Doyle and The Ersatz Life. So many summers the body wasn't there,. Invisible and free to show itself. To nobody. Then boom. That made the sound of other things –. And later, I wanted to be the words / on the paper. What are the moral and psychological repercussions? I expect tha...
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White Chicken Blog of Poetry and Poetics: Joshua Poteat & Traversing Time and Space
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White Chicken Blog of Poetry and Poetics. A focused examination of contemporary poetry — carefully conceived and modestly apportioned – that attempts to regard, consider, and make the acquaintance of today’s poets and their work. Joshua Poteat and Traversing Time and Space. In Joshua Poteat's poem "Hitchhiking in the Dying South" from Ornithologies. But it has more in common with Frost’s " Acquainted with the Night. Where naming is not just testimony, but heraldic badge:. The body of the cow. As part of ...
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White Chicken Blog of Poetry and Poetics: Morri Creech & Poetic Variation
http://whitechickenblog.blogspot.com/2007/06/morri-creech-poetric-variation.html
White Chicken Blog of Poetry and Poetics. A focused examination of contemporary poetry — carefully conceived and modestly apportioned – that attempts to regard, consider, and make the acquaintance of today’s poets and their work. Morri Creech and Poetic Variation. Consider Langston Hughes’ Dream Variations. Each stanza of Morri Creech’s Engine work: variations. Reframes a memory, though the season and its impressions vary. Stanza i. Creech skillfully mirrors strophic variation with theme — the bird...
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White Chicken Blog of Poetry and Poetics: Nurkse & the Half-Known World
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White Chicken Blog of Poetry and Poetics. A focused examination of contemporary poetry — carefully conceived and modestly apportioned – that attempts to regard, consider, and make the acquaintance of today’s poets and their work. Nurkse and the Half-Known World. To be a poet is to be interested in something other than ourselves. In his book Walking Light. How does the poet gain access to the half-known world? D Nurkse’s worthy and luminous efforts permeate The Border Kingdom. In the ribs of the brass bed.
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White Chicken Blog of Poetry and Poetics: Kevin Young & The Monumental Landscape
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White Chicken Blog of Poetry and Poetics. A focused examination of contemporary poetry — carefully conceived and modestly apportioned – that attempts to regard, consider, and make the acquaintance of today’s poets and their work. Kevin Young and The Monumental Landscape. In his essay "The Anxiety of Influence," Harold Bloom says that criticism. Is the art of knowing the hidden roads that go from poem to poem. The poem is an act that perpetuates other acts and gives new life to the. Fun out of the art of.
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White Chicken Blog of Poetry and Poetics: 05/01/08
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White Chicken Blog of Poetry and Poetics. A focused examination of contemporary poetry — carefully conceived and modestly apportioned – that attempts to regard, consider, and make the acquaintance of today’s poets and their work. No posts. Show all posts. No posts. Show all posts. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Doyle and The Ersatz Life. Olena Kalytiak Davis and the Lyric. Kevin Young and The Monumental Landscape. Seiferle and The Dual Narrative. Lynda Hull and Image. Morri Creech and Poetic Variation.
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White Chicken Blog of Poetry and Poetics: Anne-Marie Oomen & the Creation of Characters
http://whitechickenblog.blogspot.com/2007/06/anne-marie-oomen-creation-of-characters.html
White Chicken Blog of Poetry and Poetics. A focused examination of contemporary poetry — carefully conceived and modestly apportioned – that attempts to regard, consider, and make the acquaintance of today’s poets and their work. Anne-Marie Oomen and the Creation of Characters. Fictional (as opposed to “supposed”) personae also allow the poet to reveal difficult truths while more effectively concealing its source. In Maurice Manning’s brilliant Lawrence Booth’s Book of Visions,. The reader comes to know ...
