Pynchon

13 Ways of Looking at the Pragmatist Ashbery, OR Getting Down to the Nitty-Gritty: Ashbery and the Central Doctrine of American Pragmatism

November 19, 2012

13 Ways of Looking at the Pragmatist Ashbery, OR Getting Down to the Nitty-Gritty: Ashbery and the Central Doctrine of American Pragmatism

By Andrew Field

So what are some other major facets of Ashbery’s relationship to American pragmatism?

Nov
19
2012
Thumbnail image for 13 Ways of Looking at the Pragmatist Ashbery, OR Getting Down to the Nitty-Gritty: Ashbery and the Central Doctrine of American Pragmatism

So what are some other major facets of Ashbery’s relationship to American pragmatism?

Read the full article →

And I Chose—All: Mary Ruefle

August 8, 2011

And I Chose—All: Mary Ruefle

By Colie Hoffman

Picasso wrote this well before Mary Ruefle started publishing books, but if his words could be an egg, Ruefle’s Selected Poems would hatch right out of it.

Aug
08
2011
Thumbnail image for And I Chose—All: Mary Ruefle

Picasso wrote this well before Mary Ruefle started publishing books, but if his words could be an egg, Ruefle’s Selected Poems would hatch right out of it.

Read the full article →

Caleb’s Passing

June 20, 2011

Caleb’s Passing

By Brian Chappell

The climax of the novel is so mawkish that its downright dismissal of the fraught implications of his “achievement” are extremely troubling.

Jun
20
2011
Thumbnail image for Caleb’s Passing

The climax of the novel is so mawkish that its downright dismissal of the fraught implications of his “achievement” are extremely troubling.

Read the full article →

Ur Poems: Brian Chappell

February 11, 2011

Ur Poems: Brian Chappell

By Brian Chappell

Ashbery causes me to pause and reflect with awed humility that I could never do what he did in this poem.

Feb
11
2011
Thumbnail image for Ur Poems: Brian Chappell

Ashbery causes me to pause and reflect with awed humility that I could never do what he did in this poem.

Read the full article →