Navigational Hazards
by Elisavietta Ritchie and Donald Grady Shomette
Optic Subwoof is a collection of talks that poet and National Book Award finalist Douglas Kearney presented for the Bagley Wright Lecture Series in 2020 and 2021.As kinetic on the page as they are in person, these lectures offer an urgent critique of the intersections between violence and entertainment, interrogating the ways in which poetry, humor, visual art, music, pop culture, and performance alternately uphold and subvert this violence. With genius precision and an avant-garde sensibility,...
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways Elizabeth Barrett Browning Life's most tender feelings are best expressed in poetry. From love's excitements to its anguish and heartbreak, the great poets over the centuries have offered us solace through verse. This new anthology ranges from Shakespeare in the early 17th century through the golden age of Romantic poets up to the late 19th and early 20th century. Poets who feature include Donne, Whitman, Rossetti and Browning, along with the Romantic po...
The Rules of Poetry - Essays on Poetic Theory as Told by the Greats
by Various