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Catastrophic thinking: the Whitman-Hughes Alliance

Posted on November 5, 2010 by Kiwanee

So I am trying to get a head start on my final paper for this course and I’m trying to generate ideas on how I believe Langston Hughes acts as an extension of this umbrella that Whitman embodies as a … Continue reading →

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Sparh with Arnold

Posted on November 4, 2010 by Peter Galle

“Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams, So various, so beautiful, so new, Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor … Continue reading →

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Spahr, Joni Mitchell and the Science of Connection

Posted on November 3, 2010 by Dorothy Allen

On the first day of ninth grade my biology teacher told us that Joni Mitchell’s lyrics “We are stardust” are scientifically accurate as well as poetic. From the calcium in our bones to the iron in our blood , every … Continue reading →

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Containing Multitudes with Spahr and Whitman

Posted on November 3, 2010 by Nicole Monforton

Juliana Spahr and Whitman certainly have a sense of interconnectedness in humanity present in their poetry in common. Both poets seem to use that interconnectedness to cope (or mourn?) with an America that is going through changes- and not necessarily … Continue reading →

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Uplifting Spahr

Posted on November 3, 2010 by Lani Huft

Our reading took an exciting twist this week. We read “This Connection of Everyone With Lungs,” by Juliana Spahr. She is a lovely writer that I really enjoyed reading. Her use of cataloguing and repetition let us know right off … Continue reading →

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Spahr’s Ship

Posted on November 3, 2010 by dana t

Juliana Spahr’s “and still a ship fuels up and slips out of port” (41) is similar to Oppen’s shipwreck of the singular. Spahr’s ship has to do with the collective innateness of humanity, this same innateness she speaks of when … Continue reading →

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This Connection

Posted on November 3, 2010 by Edward Burroughs

 There are many lines which can be drawn from Julia Spahr and traced back to Whitman. Spahr’s books focuses on a similar Universal connection which drives much of Whitman’s work, but explores this connection in a contemporary post-2000 American … Continue reading →

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Technological Filters for Our Lungs

Posted on November 3, 2010 by Joshua Goddard

I found This Connection of Everyone with Lungs utterly fascinating, mainly because it made me think about the kinds of technological filters that keep us from possibly engaging with one another on a daily basis.  One of the key themes I noticed … Continue reading →

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Connectedness in a Post 9/11 World

Posted on November 3, 2010 by Lindsey Stewart

This week, we focused on Whitmanian influence in a post 9/11 world, and the complications that ensue when trying to reconcile Whitman’s optimism and ideas of connectedness in an America that seems to have been tarnished and mutated.  As many … Continue reading →

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Killing in the Name of

Posted on November 3, 2010 by Charles Carmody

I find the final pages of Juliana Spahr’s this connection as some of the most interesting verses in her long poem.  Throughout the poem, she is writing about and combining the micro and the macro, the “beloved and the afar” … Continue reading →

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