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Public Culture (1990) 2 (2): 104–113.
Published: 01 May 1990
...Vinay Dhanvadker Copyright © 1990 by Duke University Press 1990 Six Contemporary Indian Poems Translated from the Hindi and Marathi by hayDhanvadker TRANSLATOR'SNOTE The six writers I have presented in this small...
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Public Culture (2022) 34 (2 (97)): 239–242.
Published: 01 May 2022
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Public Culture (2010) 22 (1): 33–65.
Published: 01 January 2010
... or dueling national claims to Israel/Palestine, exerts enormous existential pressure. This essay draws on an eclectic but substantial number of poems composed by canonical contemporary figures such as Nizār Qabbānī, Adonis, and Mahmoud Darwish to demonstrate how Arab poets strategically (even routinely...
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Public Culture (2001) 13 (3): 485–505.
Published: 01 September 2001
...: American Women Poets and the Second World War (1990). Althizer, Nell. 1994 . Collected poems, 1930-83, by Josephine Miles. Thirteenth Moon 9 : 1 -2, 144-50. Baird, Joseph L., and Deborah S. Workman, eds. 1986 . Toward Solomon's mountain: The experience of disability in poetry . Philadelphia...
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Public Culture (2003) 15 (1): 41–54.
Published: 01 January 2003
...). What Like a Bullet Can Undeceive? Michael Warner n the days after the World Trade Center attacks in September 2001, Robert Pin- II sky—the former poet laureate and creator of the “America’s Favorite Poems” project—appeared on television...
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Public Culture (1998) 10 (2): x–xi.
Published: 01 May 1998
...Carolyn Nordstrom Copyright © 1998 by Duke University Press 1998 A War Dossier: Mozambique’s Youth Speak Carolyn Nordstrom Poems. Collected in 1991 at the height of the war, these poems demonstrate the creativity and the political ethics that exist among young people living under...
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Public Culture (2010) 22 (2): 237–263.
Published: 01 May 2010
....: Duke University Press. Sullivan, Andrew. 2009. A poem for Iran. Atlantic, June 16. andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/06/a-poem-for-iran.html . Talattof, Kamran. 2000 . The politics of writing in Iran: A history of modern Persian literature . Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University...
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Public Culture (2003) 15 (2): 261–286.
Published: 01 May 2003
..., “God of Iron and metallurgy, Explorer, Artisan, Hunter, God of war, Guardian of the Road, the Creative Essence,” as Soyinka describes and eulogizes him in the epic poem “Idanre,” is the god of ironsmiths, motor mechanics, drivers, and all...
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Public Culture (2005) 17 (2): 319–338.
Published: 01 May 2005
... implode the linguistic utterances that frame them. While the musical epigraphs haunt the full text of Souls by way of suggestion, they stand on their own as booming, yet mute, phono-epi-graphs at the intersection of the poems and the body...
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Public Culture (2016) 28 (3 (80)): 447–456.
Published: 01 September 2016
... to translators except that the baww is also a recurring trope in their poetry—the oral verse of the desert nomads, the oldest literature in Arabic. Particularly in elegiac poems, the speaker will sometimes describe himself as leaning over the body of a dead comrade or relative, typically one who has been...
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Public Culture (2002) 14 (3): 477–492.
Published: 01 September 2002
...John Martone © 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 John Martone is the editor and publisher of tel-let , a journal of new writing, available on-line at www.johnmartone.net . He has also edited the forthcoming book, Spiritual Necessity: Selected Poems of Frank Samperi . His own...
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Public Culture (2022) 34 (1 (96)): 71–98.
Published: 01 January 2022
.... On December 27, 2019, at a massive open-air gathering in Azad Maidan, Mumbai, to protest the CAA, two poets each recited a poem. They were cheered wildly by the crowd. One poet was the scriptwriter, lyricist, and stand-up comic Varun Grover, whose poem “Ham Kaagaz Nahin Dikhaenge” (“We Will Not Show Papers...
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Public Culture (1995) 8 (1): 127–158.
Published: 01 January 1995
... the decolonizing American Pacific, see the poems and essays of Haunani-Kay Trask (1993;1994); Tachihata’s overview (1994); and the claims for a “Local Nation” of Asian-Pacific cultural affiliation bravely advanced by Candace Fujikane ( 1994...
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Public Culture (1991) 3 (2): 93–112.
Published: 01 May 1991
... to this iconic representation of the Bengali woman is the trademark of Tantuja. tably W. B. Yeats)as the “mystic from the East” and awarded the Nobel Prize for a book of his poems. lo Literally, Dhakai saris are saris made by the weavers of Dhaka, which is now the capital of Bangladesh...
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Public Culture (1999) 11 (1): 49–73.
Published: 01 January 1999
... in a Eurasian key. This ideology is transparent in one of the last poems of Aleksandr Blok, entitled “Scythians” (1918 The poem starts with an epigraph by Solov’ev, lines which in their original context expressed an ambivalent acceptance of what Solov’ev predicted to be the coming destruction from the East...
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Public Culture (1993) 5 (3): 621–625.
Published: 01 September 1993
... of image and desire-and what else might a poem be?- was dangerous, filled with disclosures that could rupture the fine skin of decorum, threaten hierarchy, the accustomed flow of household, even public order. And to a young girl in a Syrian Christian household, raised both in Kerala...
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Public Culture (2005) 17 (2): 235–254.
Published: 01 May 2005
... that they are part of his assertion of the importance of African Americans in America’s cultural, spiritual, and material development. But even in this fi nal chapter, Du Bois said little about the pairing of songs and poems. What, then, are we to make of these combinations? We can understand the epigraphs...
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Public Culture (2010) 22 (1): 149–186.
Published: 01 January 2010
... mahakavya (courtly poetry), powadas (bardic poems), Marathi plays, bakhars (chronicles), Hindi plays, Marathi musicals, children’s comic books, and illus- trated books. There is a specific regional reading public devoted to him and his...
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Public Culture (2003) 15 (1): 1–10.
Published: 01 January 2003
... legitimate force. The other is represented by Herman Melville’s unorthodox and distinctly nontriumphalist Civil War poem “Shiloh,” which, with its pastoral image of swal- lows skimming indifferently over a freshly bloodied battlefield, sets up...
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Public Culture (2020) 32 (2 (91)): 355–361.
Published: 01 May 2020
... forms embedded in sound, movement, and spectacle to conceptualize and thus enrich what Langer called the “life of feeling” (223). In this way, a piece of music, a poem, or a collective ritual was not merely the outward form of an inward feeling, a form of catharsis for an artist or their audience...