poems
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Dissecting Dickinson: From Blank to Blank —
This is the third “Dissecting Dickinson” issue, for the previous two, see The Guest is gold and crimson and My wheel is in the dark! of which the links have been provided. Poem 761: From Blank to Blank — dated about 1863 is possibly one of my favourite of Dickinson’s poems, and I share Harold Continue reading
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In Appreciation of Wallace Stevens’s Poetry
This summer I have spent in a rather mixed topography, from the picturesque, desolate, sunlit, arid deserts, to the watery, mountainous, wooded landscape; from Texas to Copenhagen, from Vienna to Sweden — from Austin’s sprawling music scene to Enchanted Rock’s stone-spotted hills; to a red-coloured, two-storey cabin in the midst of the quiet, Swedish woods; Continue reading
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The Walt Whitman series: Song of Myself. Part 1/3
Why Whitman’s Song of Myself? There is no poem like Song of Myself. Nowhere in literary history does one find such extraordinary originality, reinvention of language, and baffling aesthetic merit as in Song of Myself. Yet, Whitman is still to this day both misunderstood and critically undervalued. This issue is part one of three issues Continue reading
Paradiso 