The human imagination, the ability to perceive another kind of reality made purely of thought, has always been the muse of artists and writers alike. Poets especially prize this human ability to imagine and create because it is the essence of their work, both for the poet himself and the reader. However, no contemporary poet […]
Tag Archives: Wallace Stevens
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“Avisa” is one of Charles Bukowski’s most famous poems. For years, major poetry anthologies refused to acknowledge Bukowski and his poetry, even though he was among the most influential poets in American literature during the Cold War. This was probably based on Bukowski’s revulsion towards his mother. The “Poet Laureate Skid Row” wrote about burning, […]
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From this very fact, that so many irrational and inexplicable things exist in the universe, modern poetry exists; modern poets, such as Whitman, Dickinson, Frost, Stevens, Yeats, Williams, Eliot, and Pound, each contributed to the modernist era by making sense of the irrational, finding light in darkness, order in chaos. I believe the poem comes […]
Pennsylvania has been the birthplace of many famous Americans. They are of course referred to as Pennsylvanians. This state is the sixth most populous state in the United States. There are many notable people who were born in this state or who spent a significant time in this state including authors, poets, writers, actors, journalists, […]