Certainly postmodern works has blurred generic boundaries, but Alexander seems to be showing, in an almost Pynchon-like way, that even the nuances of specialized language can be conscripted and subsumed into a larger poetic utterance.
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Lowell’s Bedlam: John McCullough
All acts of observation are partial and reveal as much about the observer as the observed.
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Lowell’s Bedlam: M G Stephens
Alfred Corn’s play gives us an inner portrait of Robert Lowell that is not found in either the biography or the poetry itself.
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Tom Sleigh, Anthropologist
Formality, in this case, allows Sleigh to achieve a reflexivity and self-awareness without the cloying injections that deliberately remind the reader of the existence of the poet.
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Hindu Surrealism: George Kalamaras
The two loves of Kalamaras’s life: Surrealism and Hindu mysticism (with a touch of rhetorical theory!).