.... While “Blanca” and “Fertilization” describe distinct orientations to the paranormal, both texts engage the reader in unraveling the coherence of the normal. “Blanca” was first published in Descripción de un naufragio (1975), a collection of poems using a shipwreck as an allegory for the rise...

...Helena Kernan Vasyakina’s “Girl” is the latest in a series of poems that trace the trials, tribulations, joys, and hopes of the author’s own biography. The poem was published not long after her debut novel, Рана ( Wound ), a hybrid text that includes essays, poems, and novelistic plot devices...

...Jack W. Chen Abstract This essay takes the example of a poem composed by a ghost in the Tang dynasty—one of many preserved in literary anthologies and treated as actually having been authored by the dead—as an entry point to ask broader questions of ghostly haunting and poetic presence. What...

... "Ode to Willem de Kooning"2 Both in critical studies like his 1959 book Jackson Pollock and in his poems such as "Second Avenue" (1953), "Ode to Willem de Kooning" (1958), and "Far from the Porte des Lilas and the Rue Pergolese" (1958), Frank O'Hara's writing famously blurs the line...

.... This is a poem famously difficult to summarize, one whose various episodes, discontinuous rather than progressive, never seem to cohere into a narrative whole. 3 Piers Plowman follows its protagonist as he navigates an allegorical landscape in search of a spiritual truth that remains, time and again...

... the other. This is why it is crucial to maintain that the call to write, to respond, does not come from—does not originate, if you prefer to evoke the dossier of authorship, of authority, from—him, from Ching. That the author of the poems, of the text, is not the origin ( auctor ) of this call: and who...

... the demands he places on lyrical language. In the essay "Lyric Poetry and Society," Adorno outlines his understanding of poetic form and language: The lyric subject turns its back on society, protests against mere existence, and dreams of another world. The poem's...

... the consequences. Michelle Cliff Anger is a grief of distortions between peers, and its object is change. Audre Lorde “Remember this,” Lucille Clifton’s poem “Fury” begins. 1 The speaker then creates a vision of her mother tossing a “sheaf of papers,” “poems” into a fire, effectively ending all...

... poems in roughly chronological order, with an eye towards the search.for reality they embody, and an evaluation of their achievement measured against the urgency THE SKEPTICISM AND ANIMAL FAITH OF WALLACE STEVENS 53 from which they spring. As Stevens...

... of poetry, essays, and drama, Tengour has built a house of literature whose windows and doors are open wide to the world. In this excerpt of his long poem, Ta voix vit/Nous vivons ( Your Voice Saw/Your Voice Lives/We Go On , 2019), Tengour invites in another voice, that of the celebrated Palestinian...

... (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2015). Cited in the text as tl. For a form so oft en characterized by its brevity, the lyric poem has been called upon to perform some large tasks: charged with pro- viding an escape from the confi nes of the everyday, a passage out of time, and a way...

... features one of the passages that leads Ferdinand de Saussure to worry that his doctrine of differential signification cannot account for the insistence of anagrammatic patterns in Latin verse. Scanning the opening lines of Lucretius’s poem, Saussure cannot escape the impression that the letters scattered...

... les While slow moving lowing the vaches abandonnent cows leave behind them Pour toujours ce grand pré mal Forever this great meadow ill fl euri par l’automne fl owered by the autumn1 You’re reading Autumn Crocuses, that Apollinaire poem. You didn’t...

... In an important recent reading of Ezra Pound’s Cantos , Daniel Tiffany affirms that Pound’s famous “poem including history” turns out to be anything but. Pound’s epic aspiration cohabits uneasily with “kitsch,” 1 which transforms the “modern, redemptive totality” the Cantos had meant to promise...

... and method of “fierce and tender brotherhood with all things.”6 But in a late poem, entitled “Senhor Silva,” and signed Fernando Pessoa (it is dated March 28, 1934, although like most of his work it was not published in his lifetime), we are given a vivid picture of how...

..., the essence of the human unfettered by the pronounced boundaries of false particulars. But, the argument goes, the lyric poem's pre- sumed achievement of universality through "unrestrained individu- ation" runs the risk, by definition, of stark inauthenticity or unre- strained distortion, to play along...

... by producing twenty-four thousand poems in the span of one year; his complete collected works are estimated at forty thousand.1 At the time of his death in 2007 the Moscow Times reported that Prigov had plans to “ride a wardrobe up 22 fl ights of stairs at Moscow State University...

... Republic, René Char will publish his Placard pour un chemin des écoliers, a col- Didi-Huberman: Papillons 141 lection of poems whose dedication will be printed on a fl yer sold at the Spanish pavilion of the International Exposition, to profi t the children...

... to discuss this work . . . . To begin with, we must contrast poetics of the material text to previous conceptions of the poem, as found, say, in Williams, Zukofsky, and Creeley. Williams sought a local idiom which could serve as the seed for a new literary flowering. Generally speaking...