Reading Whitman While White
It is only by holding Whitman accountable for all of his language that we can also love other parts of his language and poetics.
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Join NOW!It is only by holding Whitman accountable for all of his language that we can also love other parts of his language and poetics.
...moreAs the book continues, [Laux] traces a growing understanding of loss.
...moreJessica Chiccehitto Hindman discusses her debut memoir, SOUNDS LIKE TITANIC.
...moreThere is no escape from the cradle of this shame.
...moreYet the backyard cannot exist without the intimacy of the bedroom.
...moreBecause is a call for more stories with specifics so well-rendered.
...moreIt’s the most wonderful time of the year! Barbara Berman offers gift recommendations for the poets on your holiday shopping list.
...moreWhether you read it as poetry or memoir, this collection will invite you into the delicate balance between the challenging, sometimes squalid, human condition and the beauty and sadness of the transcendent.
...moreA poem doesn’t bring the dead back to life, but a memory has a touch of immortality: it’s a sort of recompense—forever isn’t exactly a lie, even if it’s not completely true.
...moreLuckily for us, Dungy’s increase in empathy and experience coincides with her embrace of the braided essay: her thinking crashes people, places, and ideas against each other in unexpected and adventurous ways.
...moreHowe’s Magdalene is ambitious in its reach and strangely timely, as American society has swung to the right and, in the process, against the tide of equality for women.
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