Month: September 2014
Frank O’Hara didn’t live long enough to write about middle age
Posted on September 29, 2014 by Lesley Wheeler
Last week, as another birthday hurried past, I taught Frank O’Hara! It was the first time ever I chucked the Selected Poems at my students instead of relying on anthology standards! Many of the poems I assigned were the WRONG ONES but it was…
Category: UncategorizedTags: allen ginsberg, Bartleby the Scrivener, being busy, birthdays, ease, Frank O'Hara, Herman Melville, Larry Rivers, teaching, Wayne Koestenbaum, work
PS: what my essay on “The Waste Land” repressed
Posted on September 11, 2014 by Lesley Wheeler
To frame an argument in words always entails filtering signal from noise: you can’t include all the evidence, so you try to assemble the best evidence in the best order. Making arguments about contemporary poetry, though, may be a particularly messy enterprise. Just look…
Category: UncategorizedTags: "The Waste Land", Daisy Fried, Elegy, Eliot, Her Nerves, Jeannine Hall Gailey, poetry, Undead Eliot, women poets
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