Solipsism

The Solipsist in Purgatory: Jollimore’s AT LAKE SCUCOG

by Micah Towery Philosophy
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It’s always a relief to me when I see a book published by somebody outside the “poetry ghetto.”

Tagged as: at lake scugog, Joe Weil, poetry and philosophy, Princeton University Press, purgatory, randall jarrell, Solipsism, tom thomson, troy jollimore, Wallace Stevens

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I create the whole universe blink by blink

by Evan Hansen
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I understood that, finally and absolutely, I alone exist. All the rest, I saw, is merely what pushes me, or what I push against, blindly—as blindly as all that is not myself pushes back. I create the whole universe blink by blink… “The world resists me and I resist the world,” I said. “That’s all [...]

Tagged as: Beowulf, Grendel, John Gardner, Lonely Child, Lyric Poetry, Monster, Solipsism

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