surrealism

mUutations: Louis Simpson

by Brooks Lampe Poetry and Poetics

mUutations: Louis Simpson

By Brooks Lampe

The poem points to something I am growing increasingly aware of: surrealism is fundamentally mimetic.

Dec
12
2011
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The poem points to something I am growing increasingly aware of: surrealism is fundamentally mimetic.

mUutations: Pete Winslow

by Brooks Lampe Poetry and Poetics

mUutations: Pete Winslow

By Brooks Lampe

Pete Winslow is a very minor Beat surrealist poet who died young and only published a few books.

Oct
28
2011
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Pete Winslow is a very minor Beat surrealist poet who died young and only published a few books.

Hindu Surrealism: George Kalamaras

by Brooks Lampe Poetry and Poetics

Hindu Surrealism: George Kalamaras

By Brooks Lampe

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

Jun
22
2011
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The two loves of Kalamaras’s life: Surrealism and Hindu mysticism (with a touch of rhetorical theory!).

The Wonderful Burden of Living: A Review of Milan Djordjevic’s Oranges and Snow

by Genevieve Burger-Weiser Poetry and Poetics

The Wonderful Burden of Living: A Review of Milan Djordjevic’s Oranges and Snow

By Genevieve Burger-Weiser

Djordjevic’s history of survival through political unrest and cruel accident made an impression on me before I read his work. But I had to learn to stand in each poem as if I were on an island.

Mar
28
2011
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Djordjevic’s history of survival through political unrest and cruel accident made an impression on me before I read his work. But I had to learn to stand in each poem as if I were on an island.

Stirring of consciousness, awakening of reason

by Martin Rock Poetry and Poetics

Stirring of consciousness, awakening of reason

By Martin Rock

Thin Kimono is a book of mistaken identities: a hallucinogenic wandering through a cocktail party the night before the invention of the internet. The party is populated with individuals you may or may not know. Your wife is a slightly altered version of herself.

Feb
28
2011
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Thin Kimono is a book of mistaken identities: a hallucinogenic wandering through a cocktail party the night before the invention of the internet. The party is populated with individuals you may or may not know. Your wife is a slightly altered version of herself.

Bob Kaufman’s Solitudes Crowded With Loneliness

by Brooks Lampe Aesthetics

Bob Kaufman’s Solitudes Crowded With Loneliness

By Brooks Lampe

Paradoxically, the Beats depicted themselves and the society they were rejecting in surreal imagery. America, in their estimation is a surrealist circus, full of absurdities.

Feb
21
2011
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Paradoxically, the Beats depicted themselves and the society they were rejecting in surreal imagery. America, in their estimation is a surrealist circus, full of absurdities.

Aesthete and Propagandist: An Interview with Gene Tanta

by Brooks Lampe Aesthetics

Aesthete and Propagandist: An Interview with Gene Tanta

By Brooks Lampe

It’s getting later than it’s ever been and the sonnet is nearly over: do you know where your closure is?

Dec
10
2010
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It’s getting later than it’s ever been and the sonnet is nearly over: do you know where your closure is?

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

by Brooks Lampe Language

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

By Brooks Lampe

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

Nov
08
2010
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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.

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

by Brooks Lampe Academia

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

By Brooks Lampe

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.

Oct
30
2010
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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.

How to Ransack a Poem for Parts

by Joe Weil Poetry and Poetics

How to Ransack a Poem for Parts

By Joe Weil

Hunch against the wind. / Call to the shadows / of lengthening children.

Oct
16
2010
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Hunch against the wind. / Call to the shadows / of lengthening children.

Surrealism Re-Imagined

by Brooks Lampe Language

Surrealism Re-Imagined

By Brooks Lampe

At its heart, surrealism wages a political and ideological battle through language. By creating impossible images through placing disparate objects side-by-side, poetry dismantles and re-formulates our perceptions and conceptions of reality.

Oct
11
2010
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At its heart, surrealism wages a political and ideological battle through language. By creating impossible images through placing disparate objects side-by-side, poetry dismantles and re-formulates our perceptions and conceptions of reality.