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To reduce a poem to a purely autobiographical, experiential reading feels limiting to me. To reduce a poem to an “aboutness” seems limiting to me. The poet Allen Grossman said, “A poem is about a thing the way a cat is about a house.”
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With Steven Espada Dawson, Elisa Gonzalez, and Gaia Rajan.
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Poet Oliver de la Paz discusses art-making, hybrid forms, and his work.
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Attention—where it is, where it is not—pervades If the House.
...moreFor the New York Times Bookends column, Rivka Galchen walks us through a deceptively simple poem by Zbigniew Herbert to illustrate a philosophy that supports both the abstract and the moral responsibility of art. She posits that “there is a way in which art for art’s sake is the art most open to all comers, and most […]
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