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Ginny Yuan is Cool
Posted in Poetry, tagged Poetry on August 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Poetry and Truth
Posted in Essays, tagged philosophy of literature, Poetry, truth on February 2, 2006 | 1 Comment »
Analytic philosophers, in their presumption, assume either that such statements have no philosophical importance, or that they in fact are or contain analytic satements and thus can be dealt with rationally.Groundwork for a Poetic MetaphysicsEmotive statements are important, however, because emotions clearly affect how we percieve and interact with the world…. And though the dictionary meaning may be close enough to communicate and to do scientific work, it is manifestly false to say that such a definition is in any way true.The way in which we use the word truth is the key to understanding how we use language.
About Poetry
Posted in Poetry, tagged philosophy, Poetry on February 2, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
But great poets often produce mediocre work, bad poets can be surprisingly good, and very good poets are frequently no better than consistently above average – all of which is to say that it’s far more difficult to isolate “great poetry” than Kleinzahler (and most critics) might like to believe.
Poetry Trends and Easy Answers
Posted in Poetry, tagged Dan Chiasson, Natural History, Poetry, review on November 11, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
Poetry Review Dan Chiasson Natural History Note, for example, the recent success of Dan Chiasson whose recent book Natural History is being lauded in poetry circles. Dan first “broke out” with a selection of poems in The New Yorker on “emerging poets.” His first book–well reviewed–was published by a good university press–University of Chicago. Natural [...]
Beauty Rejoined
Posted in Poetry, tagged Phillis Levin, Poetry on November 14, 2001 | Leave a Comment »
Poetry Review Mercury by Phillis Levin Damn the reviewer’s objectivity; Phillis Levin is a friend of mine. As so often in these situations, it turned out we had someone in common—a Canadian expatriate photographer living in Italy. Last summer, as I lay naked soaking up the sun in Sardinia, this photographer said that she knew [...]
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