recent obituaries about the life and work of Polish poet and Nobel Prize winner Wislawa Szymborska—who ... I’ll instead focus on what it was about Szymborska’s style that appealed to me. It’s okay if you don’t ... know who I’m talking about. First, let’s get her name pronunciation down: It is vees-WAH-vah. As the ...
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then my reappropriation of it, asking, “What does any of this matter because we’re all going to be ... dead?”— it doesn’t have to be nihilistic. If anything, stating that because we’ll all melt away soon, and ... These poems make us stare directly at every woe of our world and feel all the expected emotions—anger, ...
to make sense of the world. While his work continually undercuts meaning, it also circles back and ... and challenging how we create meaning. This new work is filled with a wild collection of abstractions ... disjunctive poetry. The question is whether this is the sole intention of Fuller’s work. If so, how many poems ...
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all dead silent. Jeff didn't realize at first that he was being told to leave. He just stood ... a trip," was all he said when we met him later at the car. "What a trip," as if what hap ... In his defense, let me say that Coach Slavin was a decent man, all things considered. Unlike most of ...
beyond all learning; All that, the glory of it- We know the story of it. We know the story, but never ... Canada, likewise, achieves its health ef fort primarily through its provinces, and benefits from vigorous ... organizational, local, state and national. If we must display immediate political vigor, let it be to dig cellars ...
confinement. And if I should mention again the last afternoon we spent in the Sere cemetery, by the sea, it is ... acting out a macabre mockery of all I had lived and desired up to that point. It was as if each minute in ... time were not succeeding the previous one, but paralyzing it. As if all things were transforming ...
"outside." We feel it, everybody feels it always calling. Sometimes (perhaps at all times) it is an ... in the world, it is also the only force that defends us against terror. Or, the mind is the most ... terrible force in the world principally in this, that it is the only force which can defend us against ...
one e.o. asked, everyone silent. "I think we ought to get him out of here," said the ... Page 207 from Issue 99 TRIQUARTERLY He got lucky. Tony found his bunk, and within five minutes had ... in his favor. To simply stand up for himself, should he later be forced to do so. He was up against ...
I reckon again that my attempt to write poetry, with all its halting correctiveness and will toward ... Page 99 from Issue 88 plasticity of the words, when negative culpability itself drains away into ... the tidal switchings of the words. All the moral quality of statement breaks down into the voluptuous ...
