by Joe Weil
Poetry and Poetics
On the Bias Against Narrative Poetry
By Joe Weil
Many young poets can not accept that telling a story, or relating some sort of narrative arc is conducive to the highest aims of poetry.
Many young poets can not accept that telling a story, or relating some sort of narrative arc is conducive to the highest aims of poetry.
by Joe Weil
Aesthetics
The Inward Soul: Dickinson and St. Theresa of Avila
By Joe Weil
There is an inwardness so vast, so total, that it has a true integrity—not the pretentiousness of artistic temper, not the vanity of professional mysticism, not the neurosis of social anxiety disorder, but a forthrightness, an honorable, hourly withdrawal from the world that seems, for lack of a better word—ecstatic.
There is an inwardness so vast, so total, that it has a true integrity—not the pretentiousness of artistic temper, not the vanity of professional mysticism, not the neurosis of social anxiety disorder, but a forthrightness, an honorable, hourly withdrawal from the world that seems, for lack of a better word—ecstatic.
