Category: Thoughts About
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Thoughts About “You, An Apocalypse Survivor, Lie in the Grass to Watch a Comet”
In this three stanza poem, Gordon Smith evolves his use of punctuation to help evolve the flow of the poem to suit the context of the words. The first stanza is one sentence, the only period appearing at the end. The second stanza breaks four lines in with a period, the last line standing alone…
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Thoughts About “Hologram”
In the poem “Hologram,” Lauren Westerfield makes use of a variety of different forms of repetition. Anaphora, in particular, is one form of repetition she utilizes consistently. Each section of this four section poem has its own anaphora, with the third section having two (though it can perhaps be argued that the second is not,…
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Thoughts About “Interstellar Fingerprints”
Annie Marhefka, in Interstellar Fingerprints, weaves reality and metaphor into a heart-wrenching, though gentle, tide. “[W]e were three sailboats whipping over the water, each navigating a separate course, vying for the wind to inflate our sails, trying not to crash into each other’s hulls.” Interstellar Fingerprints | Variant Literature | Annie Marhefka Metaphor as a…
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Thoughts About “The Prairie Wife” and “What Got Into Us”
In both The Prairie Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld and What Got Into Us by Jacob Guajardo the narrator jumps back and forth in time. What Got Into Us uses this device in a slightly more subtle way, sliding between times with very little indication of the switch, whereas The Prairie Wife gives indicators such as…
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Thoughts About “I Minotaur”
In Natalie Diaz’s essay “A Lexicon of the Indigenous Body: Images of Autonomy and Desire” for LA Review of Books she writes, “Language is a physical energy, a force gifted by the creators so that we might pray to our gods, cry out for our dead, and beckon our beloveds home.” Her poem, “I, Minotaur”…
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