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The Autopsy of an American Poet

Posted on November 3, 2010 by James Hess

“The Autopsy” by Michael Dickman There is a way if we want into everything I’ll eat the chicken carbonara and you eat the veal, the olives, the small and glowing loaves of bread I’ll eat the waiter, the waitress floating … Continue reading →

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Catalogues: Spahr vs. Whitman

Posted on November 3, 2010 by Katie Lastrapes

In the aftermath of 9/11, I think a lot of people in the United States felt a profound sense that the senseless murders of thousands of people on American soil by terrorists was one of the worst things that ever … Continue reading →

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Posted on November 3, 2010 by Justine Rowe

After reading “The United States” by C.K. Williams, I was curious to know more about this ship.  Doing a little research, I discovered that the SS United States is the largest passenger vessel ever constructed in the United States and … Continue reading →

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Intimacy and Isolation

Posted on November 3, 2010 by Dana Allen

The kind of circular vision of connectivity that Juliana Spahr presents in her poetry is one that I have only recently come realize and accept. Raised in a Christ-centered home and school, I learned to see humans as God’s treasured … Continue reading →

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Frank O’Hara: Prose About Poetry / Walt Whitman: Poetry In Prose

Posted on November 3, 2010 by Jared S.

In preparation for this research paper situation, I’ve been (counterintuitively, perhaps) going through O’Hara’s and Whitman’s prose. It’s been (surprisingly, perhaps) fruitful, I think. Here’s some tidbits. 1. In a very short statement for The New American Poetry in 1959, O’Hara … Continue reading →

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America, your melting pot is a black hole

Posted on November 3, 2010 by Marco Frey

Channeling Anarchy after Whitman Specimen 4: Wishing America never happened I. Anarchy is a stone untapped “First what do we understand under ‘Anarchism’? Anarchism practical, metaphysical, theoretical, mystical, abstractical, individual, social?” Vladimir Nabakov, Pnin “If you meet the Buddha, kill … Continue reading →

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Remember Me

Posted on November 2, 2010 by Jenny C

In This Connection of Everyone with Lungs there is a defining moment when Spahr says, “I know that my ties with yous are not unique. That each of those one hundred and thirty-six people dead by politics’ human hands over … Continue reading →

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Hope, Dread and the Powers of Ten

Posted on November 2, 2010 by Prof VZ

Olivia writes eloquently of the hope and optimism that persist against the undertow of despair and disconnection in Spahr’s This Connection.  I also try to read against the grain of that bleakness. But it is hard! (I do think I … Continue reading →

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A Hopeful Spahr

Posted on November 2, 2010 by Olivia James

Today in class we talked about Spahr’s poetry from a bleak, hopeless perspective. While I do understand this reading of Spahr, my overly optimistic nature isn’t completely satisfied with that reading. I found This Connection of Everything With Lungs to … Continue reading →

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Juliana Spahr and The Act of Being Complicit

Posted on November 1, 2010 by Cali

Upon cracking open “this connection of everyone with lungs” I had never experienced Juliana Spahr before. Spahr’s poetry began on page 3 and immediately I was intrigued. By page 5 I was wondering where Spahr was going with all of … Continue reading →

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