Flarf poetry is confusing. Poets.org provides a brief guide to flarf which somehow confuses me further. There were three options of a definition to observe: 1) Wrong. Un-PC. Corrosive, cute, cloying, awful. 2) Poetry with a heavy use of google searches, almost community written. Poems that are continuation, revision, or even a plagiarization, all out […]
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A Look at “Audre Lorde: Influence, Sisterhood, Legacy”
According to many critics and writers, Audre Lorde had many titles and a place in literary history. In the article “Audre Lorde: Influence, Sisterhood, Legacy,” authors Eve Oishi and Jennifer Bowen focus on all the people that Lorde was during her life. Poetry cannot exist without poets, and different schools of poetry grew around these […]
Power of the Protest Poem
FOR THE CONSIDERATION OF POETS where is the poetry of resistance, the poetry of honorable defianceunafraid of lies from career politicians and business men,not respectful of journalist who writeofficial speak void of educated thoughtwithout double search or sub surface questionsthat war talk demands?where is the poetry of doubt and suspicionnot in the service of the […]
An Aggressive Defense of the Confessionals
The definition of bias is a prejudice in favor of or against one thing, person, or group compared one with another, usually in a way considered unfair. This is a critical response, though not, perhaps, the critical response you expect. It is my opinion that the articles, namely Nelson’s “Confessional Poetry,” and Thurston’s “Psychotherapy and […]
Alphabet Soup
I was particularly impressed with the style of Frank O’Hara of the New York School of poetry this week. Reading through his poetry, I noticed his repetitive use of enjambment and what Reed would describe as gleeful babble. The New York School frequently wrote about urban life and finding bliss in the then and now. […]
Gregory Corse’s “The American Way” Close Reading
Gregory Corso’s “The American Way” puts a primary focus on what could potentially lead the country into ruin. The speaker focuses on the forces at play within the country that could spell out an impending doom for the nation. Ideologies and ideas are crashing together, but America seems ready to repeat the mistakes of the […]