modernism
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Landscape as Mindscape: A Conversation with Michael Prior
Michael Prior discusses his new collection of poetry, BURNING PROVENCE.
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The Gothic Horror of the Fourth Trimester: Talking with Julia Fine
Julia Fine discusses her new novel, THE UPSTAIRS HOUSE.
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The Rumpus Mini Interview Project: Rosanna Warren
“Any good poem has form and acts out its meanings in form.”
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Rites of Passage: Steven Toussaint’s Lay Studies
We are liturgical animals, Toussaint’s poems suggest, designed to satisfy some ultimate desire with worship.
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A Metaphysical Inquiry: Nick Laird’s Feel Free
The work maintains a wondering backward, as it were, tracing the varied details of lived experience.
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Both Aggressor and Victim: Adèle by Leïla Slimani
Who is Adèle Robinson, really, and what is it, exactly, that happened to her?
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The Last Poem I Loved: The Waste Land
It is March, almost April, and the year feels like a spool of days spliced out of order, leaping treacherously from sun to ice to sun to rain to snow.
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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: 21 Poems That Shaped America (Pt. 14): “Some Grass Along a Ditch Bank”
…being on the edge of the natural world is like being on the edge of time.
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The Rumpus Interview with Jennifer Martelli
Jennifer Martelli discusses her debut collection of poetry, The Uncanny Valley, growing up saturated with images of the Madonna, and her experience of motherhood first as a daughter and now as a mother.
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Wanted/Needed/Loved: Ian Svenonius’s “Principles of Modernism”
[T]he most essential thing is actually a kind of worldview, a mindset—or maybe it’s an ideology.
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Weekly Geekery
Fan fiction writers, rejoice: the future of TV is yours. Yoda-like lizard extracts water from sand without moving a muscle. Holy relics, bacteria, and the Ivy League reveal how to be a better liar. Why modern science rejected modernism. Hankering…
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Stylistically Tortuous
If you can grope your way through late James, you’ll find you have moved out of the Victorian era into the modern and, beyond that, into what we have come to refer to as the postmodern. Over at the Smart…