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		<title>On Poetry and Loss, Part 2</title>
		<link>https://thethepoetry.com/2011/05/poetry-and-loss-part-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 May 2011 15:44:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Weil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I sometimes think African American "cool" and Irish humor developed out of an awareness of the truth that life is not merciful.


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		<title>On Poetry and Loss</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2011 15:25:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Weil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The handling of such overwhelming material is first and last, a question of form. Grief, loss, outrage, must be made portable.


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		<title>Terms, Truth, Sun Sparrows: A Very Important Lesson from My Father</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Mar 2011 15:08:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Weil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I tell my students that education can do the work of evil: it can make a bunch of aleatory systems with PHDs think they have a right to be superior to the Rocky Weils of this world. They can make a son misunderstand the wisdom of his own father. They stink of torture and snobbery, they are rank with the odor of exclusion and bias, and we call this "truth" or "Dogma" or "terminology."


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		<title>The Book Bag</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2011 16:25:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Weil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The weirdest things survive. I lost my parents and some of those friends also died: Eric, who introduced me to vampire comics and Henry Miller novels, his brother Greg who netted the biggest trout I ever caught, Huey who threw a good fast ball, and liked jamming with me on the piano.


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		<title>Look What God Can Do!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Mar 2011 14:59:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colie Hoffman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[No one wants to appear childlike and vulnerable to others, but everyone (everyone who seeks out new experiences, anyway) wants to feel that way--along with love, awe is the one of the emotions people seek most deeply. And for writers, whose job is to express the inexpressible, the hidden, these two aims can feel at odds.


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		<title>Ur Poems: Sarah V. Schweig</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2011 13:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah V. Schweig</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first poem I ever loved was The Raven.  Specifically, one line from the poem haunted me when I was young, and still does: “The silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain.”


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		<title>Meditation on Milosz</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2011 13:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Weil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We must always be as careful with nostalgia as we are with most forms of vulgarity: it is too close to the whore's heart, and can be used by politicians to promote a "purity," an Edenic return that supports the most vile sense of the volk.


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		<title>Dispatch after emerging from the post-AWP hangover: or My first AWP</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2011 13:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Pellegrini</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At a party last Thursday night after a full day at this year’s AWP conference, I broke one of my own absolute rules – never, under any circumstances resort to quoting The Big Lebowski.


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		<title>The other thing grammar is good for</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jan 2011 13:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Silliman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Grammar can be a brutal, brutal thing.


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		<title>Meditation on Apollinaire</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jan 2011 13:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Weil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I must describe the physical sensation this poem had on me. It was a hot and humid day, and the house was full of fans whirring, and flies buzzing, and no one was home.


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		<title>The Bookshelf</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jan 2011 13:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Silliman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In books rowed up on the shelf you see, for the first time, your own death.


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		<title>Portland</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2010 16:40:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stuart Krimko</dc:creator>
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