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Journeys Through the Underworld in Ai’s “Reunions with a Ghost”

Posted on May 13, 2012 by admin

By Lea C. Deschenes “Reunions with a Ghost” by Ai, read by Lea C. Deschenes By titling her poem “Reunions with a Ghost,” Ai foreshadows the poem’s connections with the myths of Odysseus, Orpheus, and Innana. All three narratives feature … Continue reading →

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New Worlds For Old: John Carter On Mars

Posted on April 11, 2012 by admin

By Tony Williams “Entertainment offers the image of `something better’ to escape into, or something that our day-to-day lives don’t provide. Alternatives, hopes, wishes – these are the stuff of utopia, the sense that things could be better, that something … Continue reading →

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Is Katniss Everdeen Gilgamesh Dreaming?: Unveiling The Connections Between Poetry and Heroic Fiction

Posted on April 7, 2012 by admin

By Victor D. Infante It seems, these days, we are awash in the heroic fantasy adventures of the late 19th and early 20th centuries; the iconic heroes and monsters born in the turbulence of the dawn of the modern era … Continue reading →

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Three Poems by Lyn Lifshin

Posted on January 30, 2012 by admin

In A Breeze Of Dates And Olives, 4000 Years BC By Lyn Lifshin                                                 The first poet we know to have signed her name to what                                                 she wrote, she Lived 2285-2250BCE. High priestess in the                                                 Sumerian city state of Ur. After … Continue reading →

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