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| Title | Poet | Poem | Criticism Type | Tags |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ron Silliman- Excerpt from an Interview | Ron Silliman | Sunset Debris | Poem Criticism | Ron Silliman; Interview; Sunset Debris; Lally anthology; The Pushcart Prize IV; Berkeley; asymmetrical; intersubjectivity; Michael Waltuch; Alan Davies; obsessive |
| Meg Boerema Gillette On "Aunt Jennifer's Tigers" | Adrienne Rich | Aunt Jennifer's Tigers | Poem Criticism | Deborah Pope; Thomas B Byar; Individual; social; imagination; gender; expectation; oppressed; oppressor; oppostition; wins; rebellion; resists; personal; interdependence; parallel; syntactical; parallelism; stanza |
| Cary Nelson On "Diving into the Wreck" | Adrienne Rich | Diving into the Wreck | Poem Criticism | political awareness; personal freedom.; myth; Roethke |
| Mary J. Carruthers: On "Twenty-One Love Poems" | Adrienne Rich | Twenty-One Love Poems | Poem Criticism | intimate romance materials; traditional sonnet; love affair; estrangement; conscious mind; obligation; social renewal; moral renewal |
| Margaret Atwood: On "Diving into the Wreck" | Adrienne Rich | Diving into the Wreck | Poem Criticism | myth; Journey; gender differences; finding identity; Power; Rebirth; history |
| Marjorie Perloff on: "Hope Atherton's Wanderings" | Susan Howe | Hope Atherton's Wanderings | Poem Criticism | sound; articulation; repossession; deconstruction; history; loss |
| A 1982 Interview with Ron Silliman | Ron Silliman | Interview | ||
| Alyssa Mahoney on Adrienne Rich | Adrienne Rich | Trying to Talk With a Man | Poem Criticism | desert; past; deprivation; salvation; essentials; suicide; love; notes; external; internal |
| Jerry Estrin on: "Ketjak" | Ron Silliman | Ketjak | Poem Criticism | numbers; body; mind; connotation; general; specific; metaphor; connection; reader; writer |
| Marjorie Perloff: On "The Chinese Notebook" | Ron Silliman | The Chinese Notebook | Poem Criticism | interrogatives; question-answer format; The New Sentence |
| Ketjack | Ketjack | Poem Criticism | tangential; Narrative; parataxis; autonomous; repetition; Juxtaposition; arbitrary; commodification; emergence | |
| Russell Evatt: On "Fidel in Ohio" | Martín Espada | Fidel in Ohio | Poem Criticism | politically minded; transference; Ohio; Midwesterner; attitude; U.S. ignorance; inference; synecdoche; bus driver; incorrect thought |
| Linda Reinfeld ON; "Hope Atherton's Wanderings" | Susan Howe | Poem Criticism | Historical; sound forms; articulation; Hadley; Hatfield; Massachusetts; seventeenth-century; Hope Atherton; New England; mainstream; consciousness; Ameican Indians; Lyn Hejinian | |
| Metcalf On "Hope Atherton's Wanderings" | Susan Howe | Poem Criticism | conventional historical root; ambiguity; internal ramblings; loose tether; ambiguous; absence of technique; Inventive; innovative; objectivism; mistrust of metaphor | |
| Heather Zadra: On "Imagine the Angels of Bread" | Martín Espada | Imagine The Angels Of Bread | Poem Criticism | oppression; three phases; stanza; Steven Ratiner |
| Michael Simeone: On "Bully" | On Bully | Poem Criticism | Irony; Michael Simeone; Martin Espada; Bully; Cuba; Roosevelt; invasion; stockpiles; imperial nation | |
| On "Dust World" | Poem Criticism | Sioux; Reservation; Wind; Poor; America; sexuality; violence; post-colonial; culture; Redskin | ||
| Phillip Ernstmeyer: On "Dust World" | Adrian C. Louis | Dust World | Poem Criticism | devastated background; absolute cynicism; diminishes; hero; self-recognition; incongruous; sexual virility; swaggering machismo; Parody; white American masculinity; Hollywood cinema; cartoonish; Clint Eastwood; Steve McQueen; Scott A. Campbell; heroism; Irony; dissimulate; colonialism |
| On "Colossal American Copulation" | A Colossal American Copulation | Poem Criticism | Sex; violence; Mid-Nineteenth Century; Fuck; racism; Mysogyny; Indian Removal; Termination; Metonymy | |
| On "Scalp Dance by Spokane Indians" | Poem Criticism | Indian Life; Scalp Dance; Spokane; Dance; mythology; culture; ethnography; West; Race; Paul Kane; American History | ||
| Benjamin Branham: On "Buffalo Bill and the Confiscation of Culture" | Sherman Alexie | Evolution | Poem Criticism | buffalo bill; pawn shops; re-selling; Wild West; indians; native american; history |
| On "How to Write the Great American Indian Novel" | How to Write the Great American Indian Novel | Poem Criticism | American Indian; Novel; Pop Culture; Literature; Hollywood; Rez Boys; Native; Smoke Signals; Sarcasm; Stories; culture | |
| Michael Simeone: On "A Colossal American Copulation" | Adrian C. Louis | A Colossal American Copulation | Poem Criticism | Fuck; moral; culture; resistant; frustrated; angry; position; irrelavance; concern |
| David Kalstone: On "The Fish" | Elizabeth Bishop | The Fish | Poem Criticism | |
| Jeredith Merrin: On "The Fish" | Elizabeth Bishop | The Fish | Poem Criticism | |
| Bonnie Costello: On "The Fish" (2) | Elizabeth Bishop | Poem Criticism | ||
| James McCorkle: On "The Fish" | Elizabeth Bishop | The Fish | Poem Criticism | |
| James Longenbach: On "The Fish" | Elizabeth Bishop | The Fish | Poem Criticism | |
| Elizabeth Bishop: On "The Man-Moth" | Elizabeth Bishop | The Man-Moth | Poem Criticism | |
| Robert Dale Parker: On "The Man-Moth" | Elizabeth Bishop | The Man-Moth | Poem Criticism |
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- in Just- (5)
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- A Baroque Wall-Fountain in the Villa Sciarra (4)
- A Blessing (4)
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