Art
Looking Beyond the "Brotherhood" of the Pre-Raphaelites
Concurrent shows at the Delaware Art Museum highlight overlooked aspects of Pre-Raphaelite art and tread beyond typical gender hierarchies.
Mark Scroggins
Books
The Lasting Appeal of Wittgenstein's “Picture Theory”
If Ludwig Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus radically redefines the scope of philosophy, it has proved irresistibly suggestive to literary theorists, poets, and artists.
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A Time Before Whiteness
D. S. Marriott’s poems are a descent through the history of slavery, immigration, and the movement of refugees.
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In Nature, a Poet Finds a Visionary Language
The poems of Cody-Rose Clevidence are shot through with a sense of nature’s vitality and with the possibility that the numinous, even the divine, may inhere in that nature.
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Can Poetry Make a Difference?
Contemporary politically committed poets have made a cottage industry of agonizing over the question of whether their Leftist bona fides actually make any difference.
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When the Ancient Greeks Go Rogue
David Hadbawnik and Anne Carson aren’t aiming to produce new schoolroom translations of the classics; they’ve reimagined these ancient texts in the light of our violent and chaotic contemporaneity.
Poetry
A Brilliant Poetry Star Who Burned Out Too Quickly
Jack Spicer’s poetry can be deeply funny and playful but it has a consistent undercurrent of sadness.
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Scottish History Echoes in the Writings of Two North American Poets
Poets Shara McCallum and Karen Solie channel Scotland through historical fiction and the deep-seated malaise of modernity.
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The Mythology of the Cross-Country Motorcycle Trip in Ed Roberson's Early Poems
Ed Roberson's motorcycle ride from Pittsburgh to the Pacific is a quest-romance, an exploration of American culture and American mythology.
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A Medieval Mystic as a Muse for Two Poets
Some 600 years later, Margery Kempe’s disquieting sobs continue to confound and provoke.
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Making Poetry From Mallarmé’s Mistakes
Ellen Dillon’s verdict on Mallarmé’s pedagogical text? Pretty shaky.
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British Poetry's New Avant-Garde
British poetry is really as energetic and varied as its American counterpart.