Adam Fitzgerald

New Jersey Transit Today

by Adam Fitzgerald Society
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It’s all a spectacle — something not able to be understood (a young woman takes her life by walking into an oncoming speeding Amtrak train at 4:45 PM on a beautiful day).

Poem of the Week: Brandon Kreitler

by Adam Fitzgerald Poems of the Week
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[Epithalamium with Rust]

Poem of the Week: Evan Hansen

by Adam Fitzgerald Poems of the Week
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[He’s like those children who take apart a clock in order to find out what time is]

Poem of the Week: Camille Rankine

by Adam Fitzgerald Poems of the Week
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[Symptoms of Island]

Poem of the Week: David Lehman

by Adam Fitzgerald Poems of the Week
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[Poem in the Manner of Charles Bukowski]

“The Invisible Avant-Garde”

by Adam Fitzgerald Aesthetics

Bernadette Mayer’s “Eve of Easter”

by Adam Fitzgerald Poetry and Poetics
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Terrible Eyes: On a Newly Discovered Photograph of Arthur Rimbaud

by Adam Fitzgerald The Other

I followed deadpan Rivers down and down,
And knew my haulers had let go the ropes.
Whooping redskins took my men as targets
And nailed them nude to technicolour posts.

100 Chimes at Midnight

by Adam Fitzgerald Aesthetics
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FALSTAFF:
My king! my Jove! I speak to thee, my heart!

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Holy Saturday: The Poetry of Doubt

by Adam Fitzgerald The Other

A voice that cries, “The tomb in Palestine
Is not the porch of spirits lingering.
It is the grave of Jesus, where he lay.”
—Wallace Stevens, ‘Sunday Morning’

The Problem of Style

by Adam Fitzgerald Aesthetics
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Do you remember that Eliot was billed as giving a talk on ‘Scylla and Charybdis’ and he’d realized that they’d simply misunderstood. That is, when he was asked what he was going to talk about, he’d said that these things were always a matter of Scylla and Charybdis and so forth, and this became the title of the talk so that we got a talk on this subject because they’d slightly misunderstood what he was saying. But it’s true to him.

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Paparazzi

by Adam Fitzgerald The Other

“When we define the Photograph as a motionless image, this does not mean only that the figures it represents do not move; it means that they do not emerge, do not leave: they are anesthetized and fastened down, like butterflies.”

Seventeen Years Ago Last March: Elizabeth Bishop’s Grand Finale

by Adam Fitzgerald Art
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‘Crusoe in England’ was first published in The New Yorker in 1971, then later collected in ‘Geography III,’ perhaps Bishop’s finest single volume of poems. (Only recently I discovered the title of which was suggested to her by John Ashbery. He had found a little geography textbook of the eponymous name, and sent it to her, thinking she’d rather enjoy it. Turns out, she did.)

::MOVING BODIES::SLAVA MOGUTIN::

by Adam Fitzgerald Art
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Slava Mogutin is an artist whose work has emerged from a confluence of cultures and histories. He works across different media—including photography, video, poetry, and performance—conjuring volatile erotic phenomena from these diverse orders of representation. By age twenty, Mogutin had achieved notoriety in post-Soviet Russia, breaching its criminal code on several counts in the course of his radical investment in writing and publishing queer literature. This early literary ingenuity established his reputation as a sexual dissident, culminating in his well-publicized exile and the subsequent granting of political asylum in the United States in 1995.

“Prepare for Peoplery” by Christie Ann Reynolds

by Adam Fitzgerald Poems of the Week
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[Poem of the Week: 2/26/10]

Keats Revisited: “It’s Not a Well-Wrought Urn, it’s a Well of Ashes and Wine”

by Adam Fitzgerald Academia
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That urn is cold. I find it strange that several poets and scholars speak of the beauty-truth equation as the last lines of the poem. That equation has called forth so much fuss – its bald assertiveness is immensely persuasive at first hearing, then almost instantly the mind rebels against the symmetry of identity.

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