by Brooks Lampe
Aesthetics
Aesthete and Propagandist: An Interview with Gene Tanta
By Brooks Lampe
It’s getting later than it’s ever been and the sonnet is nearly over: do you know where your closure is?
It’s getting later than it’s ever been and the sonnet is nearly over: do you know where your closure is?
by Brooks Lampe
Academia
On Gene Tanta’s “Critical Introduction to Unusual Woods.”
By Brooks Lampe
Even though both the form and content of Gene Tanta’s work are particular to his Romanian-immigrant experience, he insists that his poetry is accessible to everyone. His poetry, he says, exists both as aesthetic objects and political propaganda. This is absolutely true about all poetry, not just his own. Inevitably, literary criticism will come to see that literature is always both.
Even though both the form and content of Gene Tanta’s work are particular to his Romanian-immigrant experience, he insists that his poetry is accessible to everyone. His poetry, he says, exists both as aesthetic objects and political propaganda. This is absolutely true about all poetry, not just his own. Inevitably, literary criticism will come to see that literature is always both.
