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boundary 2 (2017) 44 (3): 59–72.
Published: 01 August 2017
...Colin Dayan Through the route of the dog, I examine the limits and reach of what I call Williams's “poetic ethnography.” In disavowing any cherished humanism, William Carlos Williams writes his long poem Paterson . In acknowledging the obscenity of his twentieth-century world and a brutal history...
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boundary 2 (2023) 50 (4): 29–48.
Published: 01 November 2023
... as crystallized in the work and life of Paul Celan, unlike those of Dante's coherently structured Christian Inferno , provide no theological redemption—that is, no ascent to a Paradiso after one has traversed the deepest regions of hell. Like Celan's poems, Petlin's paintings first need to build their own...
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boundary 2 (2001) 28 (3): 95–115.
Published: 01 August 2001
...Jenaro Talens Duke University Press 2001 Poems Jenaro Talens boundary 2 28:3, 2001. Copyright © 2001 by Duke University Press. 96 boundary 2 / Fall 2001 El Testamento de Drácula (según F. F. C...
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boundary 2 (2001) 28 (3): 125–132.
Published: 01 August 2001
...Faye Kicknosway Duke University Press 2001 Poems Faye Kicknosway SHORT TAKE 20 Christopher Columbus was a thief. Then he was a beggar. Florida was a postcard to him. That’s as close as he got...
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boundary 2 (2002) 29 (3): 31–42.
Published: 01 August 2002
...Miguel Barnet Duke University Press 2002 6736 boundary 2 29:3 / sheet 35 of 265 Three Poems Miguel Barnet • A laborer’s son...
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boundary 2 (2002) 29 (3): 159–162.
Published: 01 August 2002
...Nancy Morejón Duke University Press 2002 Translated by Dawn Duke 6736 boundary 2 29:3 / sheet 163 of 265 Three Poems Nancy Morejón...
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boundary 2 (2002) 29 (3): 211–213.
Published: 01 August 2002
...Omar Pérez Duke University Press 2002 Translated by Kristin Dykstra 6736 boundary 2 29:3 / sheet 215 of 265 Four Poems Omar Pérez...
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boundary 2 (2002) 29 (3): 229–233.
Published: 01 August 2002
...Reina María Rodríguez Duke University Press 2002 Translated by Kristin Dykstra and Nancy Gates Madsen 6736 boundary 2 29:3 / sheet 233 of 265 Two Prose Poems Reina María Rodríguez...
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boundary 2 (2025) 52 (1): 65–85.
Published: 01 February 2025
... tight, hold tight Foo-ra-de-ack-a-sa-k I (Leonard Ware / Sidney Bechet) years scribbling day and night flash awards, public light does not make a poet quite Give a person the truth and they will put on a mask. Sponsored: Topsy-Turvy : Newly Unmastered: Socially sourced poems...
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boundary 2 (2020) 47 (4): 139–156.
Published: 01 November 2020
...Bob Perelman This essay reviews the publication of Larry Eigner’s selected poems and provides an introduction to Eigner (1927–96) and his place in US poetry. It gives an account of his life, describing his lifelong disability from cerebral palsy and the trajectory of his poetic career, which ended...
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boundary 2 (2008) 35 (3): 251–262.
Published: 01 August 2008
...: The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley: 1945–1975 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982) and The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley: 1975–2005 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006). Hereafter, this work is cited parenthetically as CP , followed by volume and page numbers, and referred...
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boundary 2 (2015) 42 (4): 47–50.
Published: 01 November 2015
...John Keene On Race and Innovation Dossier / Keene 47 John Keene Nonobjective Poems after Malevich NATION FAMILY RESISTANCE boundary 2 42:4 (2015) DOI 10.1215/01903659-­3156057 © 2015 by Duke...
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boundary 2 (2021) 48 (2): 161–176.
Published: 01 May 2021
...Yiannis Papatheodorou Cavafy's barbarians constitute a peculiar metaphor for the (self-)censoring process of revealing and hiding the voices of Others in the colonial order of the archive. The theme recurs in three of his works—an “unwritten” poem, a “hidden” poem, and a poem included in the canon...
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boundary 2 (2021) 48 (2): 123–160.
Published: 01 May 2021
...Hala Halim In contradistinction to Anglophone criticism's airbrushing of all things Egyptian/Arab from the iconic image of C. P. Cavafy, this essay dwells on the poet as an Egyptiote. An Egyptiote orientation, it is argued, variously informs given poems and prose texts in his later years. Probing...
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boundary 2 (2021) 48 (4): 7–14.
Published: 01 November 2021
...Luigi Ballerini Abstract A survey of the ingredients and paratextual elements that converged in Charles Bernstein's “Gertrude and Ludwig's Bogus Adventure,” occasioned by the translation of the poem into Italian. Historical hints and literary echoes are shown to be not merely juxtaposed...
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boundary 2 (2010) 37 (1): 201–213.
Published: 01 February 2010
... poetry. When his work manages to describe the time of its own reading in the time of its own reading, we experience mediacy immediately. This review of John Ashbery's Collected Poems, 1956–1987 (Library of America, No. 187) explores what I call the “lyric mediacy” of Ashbery's work and considers how his...
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boundary 2 (2022) 49 (3): 45–53.
Published: 01 August 2022
... of Love's Body possible.” Duncan responded in kind by featuring Brown in “Santa Cruz Propositions,” written while the poet was in residence at the University of California, Santa Cruz. That poem draws on Brown's theories of Eros as a daemonic power to criticize his (Duncan's) old friend, Denise Levertov...
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boundary 2 (2011) 38 (3): 119–145.
Published: 01 August 2011
...Christi Ann Merrill This essay offers a response—part plea, part protest—to recent events in Pakistan, looking to Agha Shahid Ali's lyrical translation of an Urdu poem by Faiz Ahmed Faiz that asks compellingly, “Friends, what will happen now?” Faiz in his day ignored Eisenhower's empty talk...
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boundary 2 (2012) 39 (1): 137–165.
Published: 01 February 2012
...Mohamed-Salah Omri The most famous slogan chanted in Tunisia in January, then in Egypt, Yemen, Libya, and Syria, is a reincarnation of opening lines of the poem “The Will of Life,” written in 1933 by the Tunisian poet Abou el-Kasem Chebbi (1909–1934), which now form the closing part of Tunisia’s...
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boundary 2 (2017) 44 (3): 73–97.
Published: 01 August 2017
... to replicate. The georgic is especially interesting in this regard, since the genre is officially agrarian and provincial—the poetry of a certain crop or USDA growing zone. And yet georgic poems in English almost always take an epic and planetary turn. William Cowper's The Task shows how a poem seemingly...