by Joe Weil
Poetry and Poetics
In the Garden: Re-Reading Whitman
By Joe Weil
A garden, like all true relationships, is a pact with loss, with effacement, and when we fear effacement, it already begins to give birth to power and envy and death inside us.
A garden, like all true relationships, is a pact with loss, with effacement, and when we fear effacement, it already begins to give birth to power and envy and death inside us.
by Daniel Silliman
Language
‘Those are not the words’: Walt Whitman’s collapsing taxonomy of poetry
By Daniel Silliman
Whitman seeks to establish a taxonomy of poetry, a system classifying what is good poetry, what bad, but the structure he establishes keeps collapsing.
Whitman seeks to establish a taxonomy of poetry, a system classifying what is good poetry, what bad, but the structure he establishes keeps collapsing.
