Author Archives: Joshua Goddard

I intend to write a paper that explores how Whitman’s “Passage to India” and Juliana Spahr’s This Connection of Everyone with Lungs  place each poet’s voice in relationship to technological advances, primarily advances in electronic media,  occurring in the world around … Continue reading →

I found This Connection of Everyone with Lungs utterly fascinating, mainly because it made me think about the kinds of technological filters that keep us from possibly engaging with one another on a daily basis.  One of the key themes I noticed … Continue reading →

I thought Derricotte’s “Whitman, Come Again to the Cities” was an especially interesting poem, because Derricotte tries to invoke the spirit of Whitman in a manner that is about as antithetical to Whitman as one could possibly get.  There are … Continue reading →