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Kevin Stein on: "A Step Away From Them" Frank O'Hara A Step Away From Them Poem Criticism imagery; time; restrictions; Death; safety
A Step Away From Them A Step Away From Them Poem Criticism seersucker; migrations; decay; change; equally; greasy; dailiness; poetry; Life
Anthony Libby: On "Why I Am Not a Painter" Frank O'Hara Why I Am Not a Painter Poem Criticism development; story; argument; duration; depth; texture; experience
Brad Gooch: On "Thinking of James Dean" Frank O'Hara Thinking of James Dean Poem Criticism Elegy; quatrains; East of Eden; Rebel Without a Cause; John Ashbery; Identity; moral crisis; exhibitionism; sentimentality; comteporaneity; Pop element; frustrated love; tragic lyric figure; Romantics
Kevin Stein: On "The Day Lady Died" Frank O'Hara The Day Lady Died Poem Criticism Holiday; jazz; music; Death; mourning; excitement; simplicity; influences
Frank O'Hara's: A Step Away From Them Poem Criticism Negro; Coca-Cola; radiance; New York; cab; Puerto Ricans; Death; poignant; earth; Life
Frank O'Hara Biographical Artist; poet; Navy; New York; Homosexual; Fire Island
Poems Biographical
David Herd: On "They Dream Only of America" John Ashbery They Dream Only of America Poem Criticism Language poetry; signs; Andrew Ross; Bruce Andrews; conventional images of America; whitman; Mark Twain; Chandler; Stevens; dominate; symbol; Tennis Court Oath; cultural condition
A Note on E. C. Segar’s Thimble Theater: Examples from "Popeye," the Newspaper Graphic Serial John Ashbery Farm Implements and Rutabagas in a Landscape Poem Criticism relationships; narratives; Popeye; comic strips; subtle; adventure; comedy; mythology; cliffhanger
Lawrence Kramer: On "Syringa" John Ashbery Syringa Poem Criticism saxifrage; syrinx; loss; flowers
Leslie Wolf: On "Daffy Duck in Hollywood" John Ashbery Daffy Duck in Hollywood Poem Criticism sounds; difficult; John Donne; diction; connotation; Kooning; imagination; Harold Bloom
Jody Norton on "Paradoxes and Oxymorons" John Ashbery Paradoxes and Oxymorons Poem Criticism being form; intertextual identity; Romanticism; postmodernism; pathos; representationality; hexameter
Vernon Shetley: On "Daffy Duck in Hollywood" John Ashbery Daffy Duck in Hollywood Poem Criticism Juxtaposition; Tex Avery; Chuck Jones; Duck Amuck
David Lehman on: "They Only Dream of America They Only Dream of America Poem Criticism symbol-hunting; competing; narratives; allegory; fairytale; imprisonment; liberation
James McCorkle: On "Syringa" John Ashbery Syringa Poem Criticism reinvention; myth; syrinx; renewal; comic-book figure
Jerald Ramsey: On "For A Coming Extinction" W. S. Merwin For A Coming Extinction Poem Criticism whale; Jonah; animal extinctions; Tone; Sarcasm; Irony; persona; despoilers; burden; imagination; evocation; The Lice; Dying
Marjorie Perloff: On "The Asians Dying" W. S. Merwin The Asians Dying Poem Criticism memory; rain; eyes; Death; bodies; colors; radical construct; subversive construct; modernity
Edward Brunner: On "Sun and Rain" W. S. Merwin Sun And Rain Poem Criticism Caesura; Verse; experience; Turns; Prose; Syntax; form; strength; Death; Gift; Prepositional Phrases; Active Statements; memory; Sorrow
Deborah Pope: On "Aunt Jennifer's Tigers Adrienne Rich Aunt Jennifer's Tigers Poem Criticism imagination; duty; Power; passivity; women; conflict in women; impulse to freedom; gender roles; generation
Susan Stanford Friedman: On "Twenty-One Love Poems" Adrienne Rich Twenty-One Love Poems Poem Criticism alienation; violence; Transformation; love
Ian B. Gordon: On "For a Coming Extinction" W. S. Merwin For A Coming Extinction Poem Criticism poetic utterance; history; Absence; beast; philosophy; transverse; forgiveness; transgression; invention; charity; science museum; lineage; Juxtaposition
About W.S. Merwin W. S. Merwin General Poet Criticism Presbyterian; Princeton; Majorca; influence; mythological; imagistic; Natural; Graves; Blake
Marjorie Perloff: On "For The Anniversary of My Death" W. S. Merwin For the Anniversary of My Death Poem Criticism Anniversary; Death; undecidable; stanzaic; eternity; bowing; mockery; abstract; elegant
Cary Nelson: On "The Asians Dying" W. S. Merwin The Asians Dying Poem Criticism Vietnam War; war; Historical; dead; horror
Anniversary of my Death W. S. Merwin Poem Criticism
Marjorie Perloff on Sunset Debris Ron Silliman Sunset Debris Poem Criticism questions; social contract; Relationship; asymmetrical; intersubjectivity; Wittgensteinian; metaphysical subject; solipsism; tractatus; sequence; parallel; tour de force; rhetorical device; uncontextualized
Edward Brunner on "The Asians Dying" W. S. Merwin The Asians Dying Poem Criticism Death; asians; Irony; animals; possessors
Ryan Cull: On "Federico's Ghost" Martín Espada Federico's Ghost Poem Criticism advocacy; oppression; conflict; political; idealism
Charles Altieri: On "For A Coming Extinction" W. S. Merwin For A Coming Extinction Poem Criticism The Lice; metaphysical speculations; apocalyptic destruction; sacrifice; Irony

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