Incandescence

Jack, There is some good imagery in places within this poem, but for me it somehow lacks that tension, the tautness, that is necessary to hold the piece together and ...

-.- If poetry can be anything (and presumably is), and let's not kid ourselves here, then there is no poetry. As an addendum: I'm not necessarily opposed to this idea, ...

There are no human rights. There are only human privileges.

So permeated with American thought...

Les Murray.

Yeah, if we hadn't gotten power back two nights ago, I was going to post a note saying you can all call me "Stinkandescence" from now on. But, that didn't ...

A few words about hurricanes: As I was standing on the street a few days ago, beside some early-20-ish lad I'd never seen before who was holding a handgun, it ...

Blegh. Trash it, burn it, start over.

While I whole-heartedly agree that poetry should be made accessible to everyone, I don't see how this piece falls into that criticism, or where it came from. Currently, I'm taking ...

Why do you post criticism if you utterly disregard authorial intent? As I said, I'm sorry you had the confusion you did (of all eight professors who've read this, none ...

As I've said, the Bible is the largest book of metaphorization one can find -- chock full of parables and such: to take it literally is to naively trust that ...

I'm not quite sure why you had some of the confusion you did, so I apologize in not being able to address them, other than to say 'pay attention to ...

Usher is not the be-all and end-all of the religious timeline. God's gender had been discussed earlier (maybe you didn't see that), but I was unaware that in a discussion ...

I'm fairly certain that in the Judeo-Christian world there is no 'female' God: one should recall here Jesus's famous query, "Father, why hast thou forsaken me?" to see the existence ...

The ellipses were to give the stanzas proper spacing. For whatever reason, Nate hasn't been able to get the posts to retain their original formatting. Blah blah blah.