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Amassed
Stan DraglandThe Difficult In an essay about poetry from Phil Hall (“Red Skeleton”), Dragland promises (p. 72) to eventually explain an allusion: How balance outright enmity with good-natured association, smart with dumb, the amassees and the masses (allusion to be … Continue reading
From the Gazebo to the Outhouse
Donald F. Theall “Transformations of the Book in Joyce’s Dream Vision of Digiculture” HJS Vol. 4 Issue 2 (2003-04) http://hjs.ff.cuni.cz/archives/v3/theall4.html Simultaneously Joyce associates the very nature of the manuscript and book with a fluidity. At various moments in the Wake … Continue reading
Scratching Lines
From “Advice to a Poet” by Susan Braley There’s a mention of “blood” and a whole world comes pouring forth in the wake of “wine”. And the familiar becomes kindred. The old rose is only known by its leaves: rugosa. … Continue reading
Membership Has Its Privileges
One of the joys of signing in to the Humanities Commons is logging out because there is a delightful invitation to return. It takes the form of an illustration and an allusion to a poem by Edward Lear, The Owl … Continue reading
Escape and What the Waves Cast Up
There was something of a reverberation in the line about the lonely shore and the rapture. Henri Cole “The Constant Leaf” Nothing to Declare […] It is strange how the past holds on to us how the rapture of the … Continue reading
Flockings
Edward Carson Look here Look Away Look Again We are led to be mindful of space and what traverses space. “”Some Assembly Required” to mind is bird, a networking of neurons airborne And to over hear echoes … “Towards The … Continue reading
Shoes & Laces
A cobbling of quotation: There we are again: the ethical question of how to render “experience itself.” Lyricism becomes associated with the moral failings of a belles lettres tradition of dressed-up writing, one that makes the words shimmer, shudder, and … Continue reading
Read/Red Arrows
Stein’s line has its own Wikipedia entry Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose Ronald Johnson in ARK 60 Fireworks I reconstructs the visual impact by a bit of clever homophony: arose a battleground: rows on rows … Continue reading
Howard “Trapping” Browning
Opening lines of the dramatic monologue by Robert Browning, “My Last Duchess” where the Duke of Ferrara guides a visitor to a portrait That’s my last Duchess painted on the wall, Looking as if she were alive. I call That … Continue reading
Pause and Tumble
from “Beds” in Can I Finish, Please? by Catherine Bowman These lines float like a haiku in the onrush of lines… you are enskied in the mockingbird’s indwelling song See what I mean by tumble… you are enskied in the … Continue reading