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Infinite Jest, Unjust Thrust? [by Jeremiah West]
What is wrong with this sentence from the June 3 issue of The Nation?<<<In her introduction to the catalog [of Infinite Jest, a show about political cartoons at the Metropolitan Musuem of Art two…
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“Do Husbands Matter?” [by David Lehman]
<<<Collaboration between poets and their peers in poetry and painting is a crucial element of modernism and of avant-garde art in general, and it’s a prized feature of the New York School. John Ashbery…
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Final Blog: The Persona Poem. Veronica Golos
This is my final blog, (and just when I’ve gotten used to it!). I’d like to thank Molly Peacock for suggesting me to Stacey Harwood, Managing Editor of Best American Poetry blog, and for…
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Whither the Humanities: Harvard Rethinks the Canon (and Expects no Tanks)
Declining numbers of students majoring in the humanities have led Harvard to reconsider its academic poilicies. <<<With a recently released report, Harvard University has weighed in on the crisis of the humanities, offering some…
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Samples of exile and hope in Occupied Iraqi and Palestinian poetry, Veronica Golos
“It is not the soil that is occupied…colonialism has settled itself in the very center of the…individual, and has undertaken a sustained work of cleanup, of expulsion of self…there is not occupation of territory…
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Literary Appropriation? [by Veronica Golos]
Help me understand something. For the past dozen years or so, many students, particularly undergraduates, and throughout the country, have challenged me for writing in sympathy or portraying the plight of others not myself,…
