Month: September 2014

Frank O’Hara didn’t live long enough to write about middle age

Posted on September 29, 2014 by

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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… Continue Reading “Frank O’Hara didn’t live long enough to write about middle age”

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PS: what my essay on “The Waste Land” repressed

Posted on September 11, 2014 by

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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… Continue Reading “PS: what my essay on “The Waste Land” repressed”

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