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From: Robert Duncan: The Collected Early Poems and Plays[(essay date 2012) In the following essay, Quartermain notes that “questions of identity, self, and the person permeate [Duncan’s] notebooks, his reading, and his work.” He points out that Duncan was raised by...
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From: Thomas Kinsella: The Peppercanister Poems[(essay date 2001) In this essay, Tubridy focuses on the publishing history of Kinsella's career and explains the origins and development of Kinsella's Peppercanister Press.] The shape of Kinsella's career is...
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From: Understanding the Black Mountain Poets[(essay date 1995) In the following essay, Foster explores Duncan’s poetics and how he applies them to his poetry. He quotes Duncan, who wrote that “the poem … is thought of as participating in a reality larger than my...
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From: Publishers Weekly[(essay date 7 May 2001) In the following essay, Wheeler presents an overview of Muldoon's poetry, literary career, and personal history, along with Muldoon's own comments on these subjects.] Volumes of the complete...
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From: John Berryman’s Public Vision: Relocating the Scene of Disorder[(essay date 2014) In the following essay, Coleman examines the confessional label, its pervasiveness in the literary-critical discourse, and the oft-resulting distinction between the poetic and the confessional, which...
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From: The South Carolina Review[(essay date 1994) In the following essay, Van Ness finds that Dickey’s literary criticism is undervalued and reflects his changing views of himself and his poetic mission, proceeding from his early attempts to...
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From: The Female Prose Writers of America with Portraits, Biographical Notices, and Specimens of Their Writings[(essay date 1852) In the following essay, Hart presents a study of Sigourney's life and works with excerpts from her prose.] Justice has hardly been done to Mrs. Sigourney as a prose writer. She has been so long, and...
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From: Sankofa[(essay date 2007) In the following essay, Lupton surveys the gender consciousness and cultural awareness of Clifton's children's books, highlighting the humanistic inclusiveness and lack of condescension in her Everett...
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From: The Movement: British Poets of the 1950s[(essay date 1993) In the excerpt below, Bradley provides an overview of Jennings's career, placing her work in the context of other Movement writers.] Elizabeth Jennings is unique in two particular ways: she is the...
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From: Georgia Review[In the essay below, Nolte surveys critical reception to Jeffers's work, concluding that after many years of suffering critical disdain, his reputation is once again on the rise.] When Robinson Jeffers died in 1962 his...
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From: South Atlantic Quarterly[(essay date January 1957) In the following essay, Kindilien discusses the importance of nature and the commonplace in Reese's poetry, stating that "hers was the complex expression of one who sensed the briefness of...
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From: E. E. Cummings: An Introduction to the Poetry[(essay date 1979) In the following excerpt, Kidder surveys Cummings's poetic career, focusing on the development of his themes and style.] It is important to recognize ... that the spatial arrangements of [Cummings']...
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From: Ploughshares[(essay date spring 1997) In the following essay, Conley offers a biographical profile of Yomunyakaa.] Yusef Komunyakaa speaks in a gravelly Southern baritone, tinged with a Cajun flavor that reflects his childhood...
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From:Contemporary Poets (6th ed.)Marvin Bell's work satisfies a need for every kind of laugh and reminds us that comedy is at least as tough as tragedy. From the outset, however, he has been modulating the balance of amusement and profundity in his...
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From: Parnassus: Poetry in Review[(essay date 2003) In the following essay, Logan offers a mixed review of the editorial decisions involved in the 2003 publication of Lowell's Collected Poems, and uses the occasion to give a critical overview of...
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From: Papers on Language and Literature[(essay date spring 2001) In the following essay, Bolton focuses on what he calls Heaney's "station poems," concluding that their structure constitutes Heaney's most direct contribution to modern poetry.] Ceremony's a...
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From: The South Atlantic Quarterly[(essay date 1957) In the following essay, Kindilien provides in-depth analysis of Reese's literary devices and important themes in her poetry.] The first volume of poetry written by Lizette Woodworth Reese appeared...
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From:American Writers, Retrospective Supplement 1IN 1924, WHEN at the age of twenty-two Langston Hughes found himself broke in the Italian city of Genoa, he composed one of the most famous poetic statements in twentieth-century American literature, "I, Too": I,...
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From: Nordic Irish Studies[(essay date 2007) In the following essay, Moi elucidates Muldoon's presentation of personal memory in New Weather, focusing on representations of mother and father figures in the poems.] Already from the outset,...
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From: Studies in the Humanities[(essay date December 2000) In the following essay, Lecouras argues that Lowell's late poetry should be viewed as a conscious attempt to overcome the modernism--inspired by T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound--of his earlier...