In Secret Commonwealth and Rose Field, Pullman takes inspiration from the great Romantic poets in his quest to keep the imagination open.
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Pullman’s Debt to the Romantic Poets
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Big Beautiful Bill, Perfect in Its Rottenness
The GOP’s “Big Beautiful Bill” was perfect in its rottenness in the same way that William Carlos Williams’s rotten apple is perfect.
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Irony and the GOP’s Big Beautiful Bill
The GOP’s “big beautiful bill” is perfect in its rottenness–like William Carlos Williams’ rotten apple in “Perfection.”
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God Reaches Us through Art
I share a talk about the relationship between God and creativity. Authors mentioned: Shelley, Homer, Plato, Silko, Walker, Clifton.
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the passing of all shining things
e.e. cummings has a dialogue with Shelley’s “Ode to the West Wind” in his own poem about autumn. I include Frost and Oliver in the reflection as well.
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O Virgin Mother, Daughter of the Sun
To celebrate Mother’s Day, here’s the moment in “Paradiso” when Dante meets Mary.
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Let My Words Turn into Sparks
In this Marge Piercy Rosh Hashanah poem, the poet asks how she has contributed to peace.
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