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Kenneth Burke: Do you Eros into Logos? (with a note on Tu Fu)

by Micah Towery Poetry and Poetics

Kenneth Burke: Do you Eros into Logos? (with a note on Tu Fu)

By Micah Towery

Poets who write for self-expression write awful poetry. They don’t seek advice but affirmation.

Mar
18
2011
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Poets who write for self-expression write awful poetry. They don’t seek advice but affirmation.

Translation, Film, and the ESL Student

by Micah Towery Film and TV

Translation, Film, and the ESL Student

By Micah Towery

A new language is a bully. Learning a new language is not really learning a new way to communicate, but a new way to think.

Nov
11
2010
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A new language is a bully. Learning a new language is not really learning a new way to communicate, but a new way to think.

A Ghost (Sonnet) in Gene Tanta’s “Unusual Woods”

by Brooks Lampe Language

A Ghost (Sonnet) in Gene Tanta’s “Unusual Woods”

By Brooks Lampe

Seemingly disconnected things envisioned as unified: this is the surreal experience of the “marvelous” or the Deep Image experience of the deep image.

Nov
08
2010
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Seemingly disconnected things envisioned as unified: this is the surreal experience of the “marvelous” or the Deep Image experience of the deep image.

On Gene Tanta’s “Critical Introduction to Unusual Woods.”

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.

Oct
30
2010
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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.

What’s Your Style Book of Choice?

by Micah Towery Academia

What’s Your Style Book of Choice?

By Micah Towery

I followed Strunk religiously until I read Geoffrey Pullum’s extensive bitchfest in the Chronicle of Higher Education about Strunk & White, and in recent years I have reconsidered my devotion.

Oct
08
2010
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I followed Strunk religiously until I read Geoffrey Pullum’s extensive bitchfest in the Chronicle of Higher Education about Strunk & White, and in recent years I have reconsidered my devotion.

Google Uses Wittgenstein

by Micah Towery Art

Google Uses Wittgenstein

By Micah Towery

Canada, it’s spring-break time. We’ve already got trees budding. Actually, many schools have gotten the whole Winter Olympics off for two or three weeks of extended spring break drunkenness. I’ve been glued to CTV for the last week or so, watching my new favorite sport: curling. No joke, this game is intense.

Feb
23
2010
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Canada, it’s spring-break time. We’ve already got trees budding. Actually, many schools have gotten the whole Winter Olympics off for two or three weeks of extended spring break drunkenness. I’ve been glued to CTV for the last week or so, watching my new favorite sport: curling. No joke, this game is intense.