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Hindu Surrealism: George Kalamaras

by Brooks Lampe Poetry and Poetics
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The two loves of Kalamaras’s life: Surrealism and Hindu mysticism (with a touch of rhetorical theory!).

Tagged as: Deep Image, Ezra Pound, George Kalamaras, ghazal, Hindu mysticism, Hinduism, ideogram, Ideogrammic, modernism, mystical, Mysticism, Robert Bly, silence, surrealism, The Bone Sutras, Ugly Duckling Presse, Your Own Ox-Head Masks As Proof

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Literary Movements: Insider as Outsider and Token Renegade

by Joe Weil Academia
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When gaining a foothold among the establishment, it is important the so called “outsiders” or mavericks have a figure fully anchored within the establishment who can be “acceptable.”

Tagged as: Allen Tate, Black Mountain, Confessionalism, Deep Image, Ezra Pound, Gender, imagists, John Crowe Ransom, L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, Merwin, New York School, Objectivist, Outsider, Queer, Randal Jarrell, Renegade, Robert Bly, Robert Lowell, Robert Penn Warren, slam, Socialist, Surrealists, Token, William Carlos Williams

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A Ghost (Sonnet) in Gene Tanta’s “Unusual Woods”

by Brooks Lampe Header
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Seemingly disconnected things envisioned as unified: this is the surreal experience of the “marvelous” or the Deep Image experience of the deep image.

Tagged as: Brooks Lampe, Deep Image, ESL, ESL poetry, Gene Tanta, second language poetry, surrealism, Unusual Woods

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On Gene Tanta’s “Critical Introduction to Unusual Woods.”

by Brooks Lampe Academia
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Even though both the form and content of Gene Tanta’s work are particular to his Romanian-immigrant experience, he insists that his poetry is accessible to everyone. His poetry, he says, exists both as aesthetic objects and political propaganda. This is absolutely true about all poetry, not just his own. Inevitably, literary criticism will come to see that literature is always both.

Tagged as: aesthetics, american immigrant experience, Bloom, book of poems, collective memories, collective unconscious, contemporary poetry, cultural memory, Deep Image, Eliot, ESL, ESL poetry, Harold Bloom, image poetry, Imagism, immigrant, jungian, Marxism, modern poetry, reader-response, Romania, romanians, second language poetry, Simic, surrealism, Tanta, theory

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How to Ransack a Poem for Parts

by Joe Weil Poetry and Poetics
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Hunch against the wind. / Call to the shadows / of lengthening children.

Tagged as: american poet, Black Swan, Black Swan Review, Cadwalader Park Late Fall, couplet, dada, Deep Image, French surrealism, haiku, Imagism, imagists, Joe Weil, Larry Levis, lyricism, Minimalism, New York School, Pablo Medina, Spanish surrealism, surrealism, tercet, Wordsworth

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Closing a Poem (Blogging through Grossman, Part 6)

by Micah Towery Art
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How do you know when you’re “done” a poem? I’m not speaking about revision, but rather, the act of writing, particularly lyrical free verse. Donna Masini once described it to me (or a class I was in—can’t remember which), as a settling in the body: a literal sense in the poet’s body that there is [...]

Tagged as: Allen Grossman, David Ferry, Deep Image, Donna Masini, Horace, Ode, Robert Bly, The Sighted Singer, To Sestius, Wendell Berry

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