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...shouldn’t have shown it.” Hartwig’s use of uninhibited imagery wrought with implicit emotion creates a disquieting sensation. Her poems unnerve because they force us to realize the truths we have been hiding, even from ourselves. Hartwig suggests that, like the poem??s painter, men and women attempt to live life constantly behind a screen of pretense. By exposing the painter, she exposes us and forces us to question whether we have remained true to our most deeply held hopes.Hartwig applies the same critical perspective to the ostensibly mundane...
...gazed.” These peaceful lines allow the reader to comfortably ponder whether or not Valentine is positioning her speaker as Jesus while characterizing Christianity as warm and maternal. Similarly, in spiritual poems like “Death Poem,” “The Afterlife Poem?? and “To my soul (2),” the heavy issues of death and the afterlife are made simple and casual. In “To my soul (2),” Valentine addresses her soul and simply ponders whether or not she will miss...
...coarse and vulgar language,” but “unless the book is entirely lacking in social importance, it cannot be held obscene.” Yet 50 years later, the threat of a six-figure fine has no radio station willing to bet on the poem??s social importance. While it seems unbelievable, the threat of large fines is enough to give any radio programmer, including the more adventurous college DJ, pause.FERLINGHETTI SCAREI should note here that my co-writer, Evan L. Hanlon, is off this week—these are solely the experiences...
...most instrumentally fleshed-out and gorgeous album Oldham has created.Recorded in Reykjavik, Iceland all the sounds, from the desperate bombast of “The Seedling” to the barely-whispered finger-picking of “Wai” have an icy purity befitting the Emily Dickinson poem??“After great pain a formal feeling comes”—from which the album gets its title (“First--Chill--then Stupor--then the letting go”).Indeed, the standout track, “Cursed Sleep,” might...
...Boys and the Avocado of Death,” and the technical language, “Nick was the name Nick gave when the name Nick / gave was a variable assignment for Nick.” The diversity of reference is matched by a delightful variety of diction. The poem??s narrator babbles out initial exposition in a long stanza, then pauses, takes a breath, and recaps in a single line: “There is a note in my pocket.” In this and other poems, Robinson’s syntax is the best part...