Tag Archives: Juliana Spahr

Highways and Cathedrals

Posted on December 4, 2010 by Anna Kate Lister

During our not-so-recent discussion of Juliana Spahr, there was some mention of the spoils of the future and those technological advances which seem only to set us back.  Spahr addresses senseless wars, cell phone conversations about loneliness, celebrity worship, our … Continue reading →

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Yusef Komunyakaa’s ‘The Towers’ in light of Juliana Spahr

Posted on November 10, 2010 by Cali

Yusef Komunyakaa “The Towers” is a part of his book entitled “Warhorses” written in 2009. The poem “The Towers” is a direct response to the events of September 11, 2001 and has Juliana Spahr written all over it. What’s interesting … Continue reading →

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Catalogues

Posted on November 9, 2010 by Cali

“By listing, by naming, the atrocities-the harrowing stats, the scary particulars-in our world-at-endless-war, we might at least exert control over our sanity and extend our mind and compassion to others.” This is description of Juliana Spahr’s This Connection of Everyone … Continue reading →

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Sparh with Arnold

Posted on November 4, 2010 by Peter Galle

“Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams, So various, so beautiful, so new, Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor … Continue reading →

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Spahr’s Ship

Posted on November 3, 2010 by dana t

Juliana Spahr’s “and still a ship fuels up and slips out of port” (41) is similar to Oppen’s shipwreck of the singular. Spahr’s ship has to do with the collective innateness of humanity, this same innateness she speaks of when … 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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Catalogues: Spahr vs. Whitman

Posted on November 3, 2010 by Katie Lastrapes

In the aftermath of 9/11, I think a lot of people in the United States felt a profound sense that the senseless murders of thousands of people on American soil by terrorists was one of the worst things that ever … Continue reading →

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Juliana Spahr and The Act of Being Complicit

Posted on November 1, 2010 by Cali

Upon cracking open “this connection of everyone with lungs” I had never experienced Juliana Spahr before. Spahr’s poetry began on page 3 and immediately I was intrigued. By page 5 I was wondering where Spahr was going with all of … Continue reading →

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