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The unrealists' return.(poetry)
Every kind of composition, even the most poetical, is nothing but a chain of propositions and reasonings; not always indeed the justest and most exact, but still plausible and specious, however disguised by the coloring of the imagination.
--David Hume, "Of the Standard of Taste"
"The poem must resist the intelligence/Almost successfully'--these are among Wallace Stevens's most famous lines. They are also his most problematic legacy. With what instruments may one calibrate the ultimate triumph of the intelligence over its opposite--call it unintelligibility, unreason? Will Stevens's ideal poem elude, frustrate, confuse us only at the outset, or will it ...
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...say and hold, to mean by what he could not find the breath inside, to say and say until all matter ceased. Michael Dumanis's poems have appeared or are forthcoming in, Chelsea, Crazyhorse, Epoch, Indiana Review, New England Review, Seneca...
- Legitimate Dangers.(Brief article)(Book review)
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...material not found in the original poems. Though many of Mangan's poems have subtitles indicating that...translations' may be original poems, and vice versa." This being...to indicate the status of each poem. The volume concludes with an...
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- Magazine article from: Poetry TROMP, IAN August 1, 2001 700+ words
...steerage / under capricious canvas." This poem is one of several that trace Adcock...1997's Looking Back, but these later poems are less pleasing; they have lost much...having the Gulf War," she begins one poem, "I went to the 18th century." Of...
Source: HighBeam Research, The unrealists' return.(poetry)