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Carl Solomon, who threw potato salad at CCNY lecturers on Dadaism and subsequently presented themselves on the granite steps of the madhouse with shaven heads and harlequin speech of suicide, demanding instantaneous lobotomy.”
I missed “Howl” day. Did anyone wonder who Carl Solomon was? I am not sure who he is. All that I know is that I read a book of small writings he did about his life a few years ago … Continue reading
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Uncle Walt
I really love reading the Whitman Blog every week, but lately I’ve noticed a trend among Whitman Nation: as the weeks go by, our posts seem to get more and more serious. I’d like to take a more lighthearted step … Continue reading
To The Film Industry In Crisis
Frank O’Hara’s poem “To the Film Industry in Crisis,” appears as a poem glorifying the film industry as a great new form of art in the modern world. The majority of the poem is spent describing various old movie stars … Continue reading
“Indescribable Magnetism”: Allen Ginsberg, Edgar Allan Poe, and Walt Whitman
A lot has been said about Walt Whitman’s influence on Allen Ginsberg, but who would have thought that Whitman could perfectly capture the future characteristics of Ginsberg so eloquently in his depiction of Edgar Allan Poe? In “Edgar Poe’s Significance,” … Continue reading
Neruda and Whitman and Forgetting
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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Neruda as a Whitmanian
This week we dived into the work of some Latin American poets, but the one that stood out the most to me personally was Neruda’s. As per usual, we discussed the various ways in which Neruda’s work could be considered … Continue reading
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Tagged Existential Crisis, Existentialism, Nature Poetry, Pablo Neruda, Walt Whitman
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Re-writing Neruda
The translation of poems into a new language, by a poet who did not write the original poem, is an odd concept. In the introduction to The Essential Neruda: selected poems, one of the translators, Mark Eisner quotes another previous … Continue reading
Obligation
In his poem, “Poet’s Obligation”, Neruda expresses his desire to bring poetic freedom to those who are not able to reach it. He longs to bring the sea to the prisoner, the career person, and the factory worker–people stuck at … Continue reading
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The Negro Speaks of Rivers, and much more
Of the many characteristics that stand out in Walt Whitman’s poetry, one of the most overwhelming is the importance given to the sense of place and connectedness that is found through examining one’s roots, and in the realization that all … Continue reading
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Egon Schiele and Walt Whitman
When I read Langston Hughes’s poem “Young Prostitute” I was reminded of a poem by Austrian Expressionist painter Egon Schiele. The two don’t have too much in common, but they began me thinking about artists’ relations with their subjects, fixating … Continue reading
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