Unusual Woods

Aesthete and Propagandist: An Interview with Gene Tanta

by Brooks Lampe Aesthetics
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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?

Tagged as: aesthetics, authority, charles simic, Gene Tanta, grand narratives, leonard cohen, modernism, propaganda, Romania, surrealism, Unusual Woods

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

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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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Gene Tanta’s Illuminated Chapbook

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After I had left Binghamton, I thought about starting an online press that would give away free chapbooks in PDF form on the internet. We published a book by Gene, originally titled Excerpt from Pastoral Emergency. The chapbook featured Gene’s artwork side by side with his poetry (Gene studied both art and poetry Iowa).

Tagged as: Cartographer Electric, Excerpt from Pastoral Emergency, Gene Tanta, illuminated chapbook, Iowa Writer's Workshop, KPMX, Unusual Woods

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