Tag Archives: Contemporary Poetry

Book Review from Agni: Whitman, Lately: C.K. Williams’s On Whitman

Posted on December 11, 2010 by Prof VZ

As you’ve all worked so diligently on your research papers, I thought it would be fitting to post part of a piece I’ve been working on over the course of the semester–a piece I recently published in a journal called … Continue reading →

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This Connection

Posted on November 3, 2010 by Edward Burroughs

 There are many lines which can be drawn from Julia Spahr and traced back to Whitman. Spahr’s books focuses on a similar Universal connection which drives much of Whitman’s work, but explores this connection in a contemporary post-2000 American … Continue reading →

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Connectedness in a Post 9/11 World

Posted on November 3, 2010 by Lindsey Stewart

This week, we focused on Whitmanian influence in a post 9/11 world, and the complications that ensue when trying to reconcile Whitman’s optimism and ideas of connectedness in an America that seems to have been tarnished and mutated.  As many … Continue reading →

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What is so Amazing

Posted on October 27, 2010 by Edward Burroughs

We looked at the following poem in my process class a few weeks ago, and re-reading it I couldn’t help but see a lot of Whitman in it. What Is So Amazing is not so much what is beneath the … Continue reading →

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The Mystery of Oppen

Posted on October 20, 2010 by Lindsey Stewart

This week I must say I was particularly fascinated with the simultaneously revealing and befuddling poems of George Oppen.  Oppen was the poster-child of what came to be known as the “Objectivist” school of poetry, which has been categorized by a lack of … Continue reading →

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Neruda and Whitman and Forgetting

Posted on October 2, 2010 by Prof VZ

James’s recent and incisive post offers a brilliant reading of the many arguably un-Whitmanian energies in Neruda’s love poem #20. More generally, he voices a healthy dose of skepticism concerning the degree to which we might think of Neruda or any … Continue reading →

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Whitman under the footsteps of Charles Simic

Posted on September 29, 2010 by Maria Martin

Today I was talking with Carol Ann Davis and Dana Thieringer about poetry and specifically a poem by Charles Simic “A Letter.” Professor poem brought up another poem by Simic, “The Prodegy,” and then told us her theory that the … Continue reading →

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Desaparecidos / The Disappeared

Posted on September 29, 2010 by Prof VZ

I rushed through Neruda’s biography yesterday–I hope you have a chance to check it out on your own before class tomorrow.  Neruda fell in and out of favor with various Chilean governments, but his most profound disappointment came with the overthrow … Continue reading →

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Too lovingly extravagant?

Posted on September 15, 2010 by James Hess

On a first read, I found myself repulsed by E. A. Robinson’s poem “Walt Whitman.” Bursting with hopeful sentimentality and warm, fuzzy emotions, his tribute poem felt  a bit overdone, to say the least. Then though, I stepped back for … Continue reading →

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“Because I have dared to open my mouth to sing at all”

Posted on September 8, 2010 by Marco Frey

Channeling Anarchy through Whitman Specimen 4: The Burden of Witness “The suicide sprawls on the bloody floor of the bedroom,”   Song of Myself, 8 “What is absent makes the world what it is.” History of the Always Pain, Jennifer Militello … Continue reading →

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