Essays
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Meetings on the Sea Front
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Turning Home: A Review of Aaron Poochigian’s Mr. Either/Or books
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Beloved Communities, Lasting Divisions: Poets on Country, Culture, and Kinship
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Everything Old is New Again: A.E. Stallings and This Afterlife
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Grief and Grievances: The Example of T.S. Eliot
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From the Aegean Islands to the Gulf Stream Waters: Epic Catalogue, Lyric Geography, and the Evolution of a Topos
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“Felzizeg”: On the Onomatopoeia of a Song
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Club Silencio
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Rhyme’s Crimes
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Ekphrasis and the Lennon Lyric: A Review of Lynchings: Postcards from America
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What Happened to the Apple-Ipecac Pie?: The Coen Brothers and Shakespearean Tragedy
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Birds of America; Or, Tell Me a Story About Farming, Haunted Houses, and Poetry in Motion: Down on the Farm
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Clowns in the Burying Ground: Ovid, William Shakespeare, and the Grateful Dead
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Our Auden
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Place and the Composition of Poetic Self
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Rediscovering Southern Poetry
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Nibbling Animals: Jason Guriel’s On Browsing and James Pollock’s Durable Goods
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“For When the Days Seem Absent Any Answers”: Poets of Skepticism and Faith
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“There Is One End for Everyone”: Trends and Traditions in Contemporary American Literary Ballads
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“A poet, dangerous and steep”: reintroducing Josephine Jacobsen