Adam Fitzgerald

New Jersey Transit Today

by Adam Fitzgerald November 21, 2011 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).

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Poem of the Week: Brandon Kreitler

by Adam Fitzgerald January 27, 2011 Poems of the Week
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[Epithalamium with Rust]

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Poem of the Week: Evan Hansen

by Adam Fitzgerald January 20, 2011 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]

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Poem of the Week: Camille Rankine

by Adam Fitzgerald January 13, 2011 Poems of the Week
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[Symptoms of Island]

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Bernadette Mayer’s “Eve of Easter”

by Adam Fitzgerald May 5, 2010 Poetry and Poetics
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Terrible Eyes: On a Newly Discovered Photograph of Arthur Rimbaud

by Adam Fitzgerald April 18, 2010 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.

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100 Chimes at Midnight

by Adam Fitzgerald April 10, 2010 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 April 3, 2010 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’

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The Problem of Style

by Adam Fitzgerald March 27, 2010 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 March 20, 2010 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.”

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