by Andrew Field
Poetry and Poetics
The Ironic and the Un-Ironic: the Role of the Hero in Ashbery and Creeley
By Andrew Field
If Ashbery’s poems are premised, if distantly, on a hope for the future, a hope for new imaginary communities, a hope for a new way of speaking, Creeley’s poem are cynical about the future, isolated from community, and unable to even speak.
If Ashbery’s poems are premised, if distantly, on a hope for the future, a hope for new imaginary communities, a hope for a new way of speaking, Creeley’s poem are cynical about the future, isolated from community, and unable to even speak.
by Brooks Lampe
Poetry and Poetics
Hysterical Catalog: Gregory Corso’s Alchemical-Surrealism
By Brooks Lampe
The poet as alchemist, transmuting the socio-political reality using the mundane elements found in the (social) environment with the transformative energies of consciousness.
The poet as alchemist, transmuting the socio-political reality using the mundane elements found in the (social) environment with the transformative energies of consciousness.
