early skirmishes at Rockford College
Almost from the beginning, poetry for me was a matter of contention. The fight began before I had shown a poem to anyone. I had read poetry seriously for several years in solitude, then thought to give my reading some structure and weight with a year or two of formal education. [...]
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11. The river ran red: poetry wars
Posted in Alexander Pope, Algernon Swinburne, Appalachia, Ben Jonson, Carl Jung, Dana Gioia, David Mason, Dianne Wakoski, Edmund Burke, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Emile Verhaeren, Immanuel Kant, Ira Sadoff, John Dryden, Jonathan Holden, Jonathon Swift, Joseph Conte, Kansas frontier, Leo Tolstoy, Marian Hollinger, Matthew Arnold, Modernism, New Formalism, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Peter Kropotkin, RS Gwynn, Robert Browning, Robert Frost, Rockford College, Romantics, Samuel Johnson, T.S. Eliot, Thomas Hardy, Vernon Shetley, Victorians, William Blake, William Carlos Williams, William Wordsworth, avant-garde, poetry wars, post-structuralism, proletariat, social realism, tagged blank verse narratives, Edgar Lee Masters, Expansive Poetry, neo-formalism, New Formalists, Scholar Gipsy, Spoon River on May 19, 2008 | 1 Comment »
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For each life, a different river
- . 1. The two rivers: the Styx and the Spoon
- . 2. By the oily Rock River: factory nights
- . 3. Along a wild stretch of the Calawah: wandering after Han-Shan
- . 4. The college above Keith Creek: defending the Romantics
- . 5. Bohemia on the Mississippi
- . 6. Shadows across the Spoon: midwestern gothic
- . 7. From the Spoon to the Marne: poems of my grandfather's war
- . 7b. Another tale from Spoon River: "The Revelation of Sam Hackett" — a pastoral parable of violence, war & the devil
- . 7c. Ruins on the Somme: a lost war poet rediscovered
- . 8. Along the stripling Thames: in search of the Scholar Gipsy
- . 9. By the banks of the Seine: paupers & Symbolists
- 10. The body in the river: hard-boiled sonnets
- 11. The river ran red: poetry wars
- 12. Submerged in the waters of Lethe
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