Category Archives: Wildcard

Striving to Imitate/Innovate

I realize now that when you write a poem in a calligram form in microsoft word and then try and copy/paste that poem into a blog post things don’t go so smoothly. Well this blog post is meant to be … Continue reading

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Marianne Moore’s Torrid Family Life

A review recently published in the New Criterion by Bruce Bawer of a new Marianne Moore biography caught my attention this week. The review begins by chastising a decades old biography penned by Charles Molesworth, a biographer Bawer accuses of … Continue reading

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A Glimmer of Happiness in a Time of Grief: Striven, the Bright Treatise

Jeffrey Pethybridge’s  Striven, the Bright Treatise contains both grief and the process of looking back on memories to help him mourn his brother’s death. In my opinion, grief is definitely the emotion that is mostly evident in this work, but there … Continue reading

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A Fascination with Anagrams

In a large number of Jeffrey Pethybridge’s poems, one can find anagrams and anagrammatic poetry styles; indeed, the title of his book is an anagram of his brother’s name. I looked into the history of anagrams in order to understand … Continue reading

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Reasons to Live: A Modernist Collage

Jeffrey Pethybridge’s Striven, The Bright Treatise does something so many modernists have done before him: provide a reason for living created from the ghosts of the dead. Whether the things dead are people, tradition, symbols, the environment, poetic forms or culture, … Continue reading

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Sunset on the Bridge

Although I was incredibly intrigued by all of the poems in Striven, The Bright Treatise by Jeffrey Pethybridge I would have to say the two I found most interesting visually were the pull out poem The Sad Tally on pages … Continue reading

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Productive year of 2013

I thought it would be fun to do a Chronos for the year of 2013. A lot of the times we live the year and don’t even realize that it had happened or realized how fast time went by. As … Continue reading

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Men swear, the bitches!

I thought I’d try my hand at analyzing one of Mullen’s poems from Trimmings. As there is so much ambiguity in her poetry, I decided to have a little fun playing around with the way the poem reads aloud instead … Continue reading

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The Sapphire Sings

I decided to pursue a critical read of Recyclopedia because I was interested in what others had to say about the collection. In attempt to understand the reasoning behind each collection, I found interpretations of these poems that incorporate Mullen’s … Continue reading

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1991: Year in Review

Arts and Culture Contemporary artist Damien Hirst opens his first solo exhibition at he Institute of Contemporary Arts. The gallery space consisted of two works of art: Butterfly Paintings and Ashtrays and White Paintings and Live Butterflies. In the upstairs … Continue reading

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