Poetry of the City with Victor Hernández Cruz
An exploration of “the collusion and collision of peoples and cultures” in the poetry of Victor Hernández Cruz.
Tag: Close Readings
Poetry of the City with Federico García Lorca
By Rigoberto González
Posted Jan 18, 2019
A look at Federico García Lorca’s poem “City That Does Not Sleep” and its “bleak critique of modernity and capitalism.”
Transforming Nature with Tommy Pico
By Carl Phillips
Posted Dec 17, 2018
A look at how Tommy Pico reveals “stereotypes about a culture’s relationship to nature” in his book-length Nature Poem.
Transforming Nature with John Clare
By Carl Phillips
Posted Nov 26, 2018
Carl Phillips examines how a poem by John Clare conveys “sensitivity to wilderness and the human ability to reason about it.”
Transforming Nature with Charlotte Smith
By Carl Phillips
Posted Nov 19, 2018
Carl Phillips looks at a 1797 sonnet by Charlotte Smith that explores the desire to escape “a civilization of reason’s making.”
(Feeling) at Home in America with Sterling A. Brown
By Camille T. Dungy
Posted Nov 12, 2018
A close look at a poem by Sterling A. Brown that asks us “What happens when hope comes home?” Part 5 of 5 on the theme of home.
(Feeling) at Home in America with Lucille Clifton
By Camille T. Dungy
Posted Oct 30, 2018
An exploration of the ways in which a poem by Lucille Clifton “casts nets of inclusion and exclusion.” Part 3 of 5 on the theme of home.
(Feeling) at Home in America with Maggie Smith
By Camille T. Dungy
Posted Oct 22, 2018
An investigation of Maggie Smith’s “homing strategies” in her poem “Good Bones.” Part 2 of 5 on the theme of home.
(Feeling) at Home in America with Phillis Wheatley
By Camille T. Dungy
Posted Oct 16, 2018
A close look at Phillis Wheatley’s subversion of Neoclassical poetry in “On Being Brought from Africa to America.” Part 1 of 5 on the theme of home.