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Final Project: Mother of the Waste

Posted on April 23, 2014 by kaburrel

For my final project I did an imitation of The Waste Land. I incorporated elements from T.S. Eliot, Louis Zukofsky, William Carlos Williams, and John Beer. From Zukofsky and Eliot I took formalities including allusions, footnotes, foreign languages, etc. However, similar … Continue reading →

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Bad Modern Bitches

Posted on April 22, 2014 by Katie B

Click the picture of Edna St. Vincent Millay frolicking below to see our website! For our final project we decided to spin a twist on the research of modern female poets.  Reading boring biographies of female poets we liked and … Continue reading →

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A Fat Woman in the Attic with Nothing to Hide: Amy Lowell Slammed Against the Great Wall of Modernism

Posted on April 21, 2014 by Sydney Beckner

For my final project, I decided on taking a poet out of the dustbin of Modernism and examining her life as equated to her poetic works. Amy Lowell, a once revered and popular imagist poet who wrote along side people … Continue reading →

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Let the Image Speak for Itself; Alfred Stieglitz impact on the poetry of William Carlos Williams

Posted on April 18, 2014 by Beau

The New York Avant Garde visual arts scene lead by photographer Alfred Stieglitz fascinated artists around the Globe. Poet William Carlos Williams wanted the affect of these paintings to emanate from his literary work. The image had to speak for … Continue reading →

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Modernism: Art & Its Poetic Ing

Posted on April 18, 2014 by Connor F

For our final project we have created a online presentation using the program Prezi. In our Prezi we examine several different art and literary movements as well as the artists and writers that influenced and occupied them. Beginning with the … Continue reading →

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Critical Review of Visuals

Posted on April 10, 2014 by helmsjl

     Jody Smiling, an author for The Rumpus website, writes a short review for Pethybridge’s Striven that includes excerpts from an interview and analyses of the various features of the poems. She talks about the purely visual qualities of … Continue reading →

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Lucid Waves

Posted on April 10, 2014 by oliphantgg

In the penultimate section of Jeffrey Pethybridge’s book of poetry entitled Striven, The Bright Treatise, Pethybridge takes an unexpected, yet perfectly executed, departure by employing many characteristics of Romanticism. I feel that he does so to share the sensations of his … Continue reading →

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A Fascination with Anagrams

Posted on April 10, 2014 by BrittenyR

In a large number of Jeffrey Pethybridge’s poems, one can find anagrams and anagrammatic poetry styles; indeed, the title of his book is an anagram of his brother’s name. I looked into the history of anagrams in order to understand … Continue reading →

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“Red Light” an imitation of “[bridge, you’re]” by Jeffrey Pethybridge

Posted on April 10, 2014 by Connor F

  I found myself drawn to this poem very early on in the reading of this book. This was because the poem was so simple and bare, yet each word carried a great amount of weight to it. The voice … Continue reading →

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What the Heck is Trimmings?

Posted on April 3, 2014 by Taylor Dixon

For my wildcard post, I was interested in how the academic world responded to the publishing of Trimmings by Harryette Mullen. Gertrude Stein, the poet whom Mullen drew much inspiration from, was a controversial figure in her own right, and I … Continue reading →

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