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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Why I Hate “The Arts”

by Joe Weil August 31, 2011 Aesthetics
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Perhaps it is the ends of art I hate–the way it is “valued” rather than integrated into the dynamic of being alive.

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Adam Fitzgerald’s “Life of Gorgias”

by Micah Towery November 1, 2010 Poetry and Poetics
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Not only is Adam a teaching, magazine editing, book publishing maniac, he’s also managed to put together a poem collage in all that spare time he has.

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Partial board meeting

by Stuart Krimko April 8, 2010 The Other

at Great Lakes bar and Chris Stackhouse’s apartment Attendees yours truly Fitzgerald Kearney Gregorian Stackhouse though not sure if he counts honorary board member maybe everyone’s welcome everybody’s autobiography something in Ashbery about that ‘Soonest Mended’ until too late in the morning almost the dawn Minutes: dogwoods Parliaments fire escape, five favorite poets, five favorite [...]

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

by Adam Fitzgerald February 21, 2010 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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“The Sweetness of Herbert” by Stuart Krimko

by THEthe Poetry Blog Editors February 18, 2010 Poems of the Week

[Book Review: 2/18/10]

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