Coda: The “Queen Under the Hill,” or, Robert Duncan’s Lesson in Essential Autobiography by Rob Halpern

“…In it, I question my apprenticeship with Duncan when I was a young twenty-something, as I was struggling to understand what it might mean to be a “good gay poet.” In 1987, I traveled with a copy of Duncan’s The Opening of the Field, and while I could not fully comprehend the poems, the book nevertheless offered me a model – for better and for worse – for sublimating my sexuality during the worst years of the AIDS crisis. …”
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"You are my rock and fortress". Refuge metaphors in Psalm 31. A perspective from cognitive metaphor theory by A. Basson

“…Through the application of images from the natural world, the poet accentuates the notion that Yahweh acts as a refuge to his people. …”
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De la petite chanson aux rafales du vent : le parcours de la ritournelle dans l’œuvre poétique d’Emily Brontë by Charlotte Borie

“…This little song is to be found in Emily Brontë’s poetry, repeating itself, evolving, up until its essence is finally endorsed by the voice of the wind which woos the poet into a poetic transe. The incantatory resurgence of the ritornello punctuates the poetic mind’s trip from fancy to imagination, along which the idea of return applies less to the memory than to the repressed.…”
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Apocalypse Now? Kate Atkinson Reads Ovid’s Metamorphoses by Barbara Weiden Boyd

“…Atkinson uses the Latin poet’s interest in change and its often strange permutations as a way of interrogating contemporary concerns about consumerism, environmental degradation, and cultural forgetfulness, against a backdrop of post-apocalyptic fantasy. …”
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La critique d’expression française et la traduction de la poésie by Tania Collani

“…As a metaphorical and emotional genre, poetry imposes a number of constraints on its translators: an edition with the original text, a translator who is a poet or who is sensitive to poetry, and a reflection on literature and language (rhythm, metrics, versification, rhyme, verse). …”
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Coda: The War of Poetry: Duncan’s Heresies by Michael Heller

“…Duncan often referred to himself as a “derivative poet.” This article discusses how such derivations were both an embrace and a strategy, each leading to a supersession of a poetics that enlarged the notion of poetry, selfhood and possibility.…”
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Le jardin japonais en Europe by Ursula Wieser Benedetti

“…By examining the works of Akisato Ritō, a prolific writer, gardener and poet of the Edo period, this paper will try and show the considerable influence he exerted on the garden art of his time, and, by extension, on the garden typologies introduced to Europe in the 19th century. …”
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‘Make Sure You Don’t Murder Your Coffee!’ Comedy and Violence in the Poetry of Luke Kennard by Paul McDonald

“…This paper discusses the relationship between comedy, violence, and postmodernism in the work of the British poet, Luke Kennard. It has been argued that British poets of the twentieth century have an ambivalent relationship with postmodernism because, while they accept that certainty is elusive, they refuse to ignore meaning and value, and their writing frequently exhibits “an ethical demand.” …”
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« Tout est dedans ». Remarques sur la matrice shakespearienne à propos d’I, Shakespeare de Tim Crouch by Virginie Yvernault

“…Written and performed separately between 2003 and 2012, I, Malvolio; I, Banquo; I, Caliban; I, Peaseblossom; I, Cinna (The Poet) give voice to characters from Twelfth Night, or What you will, Macbeth, The Tempest, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Julius Caesar. …”
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“God’s Grandeur” by Gerard Manley Hopkins. A Poetic Path into the Depths of Contemplation by Marcin Godawa

“…The object is God’s Grandeur, a brilliant sonnet by Gerard Manley Hopkins, a poet, priest, Jesuit, a man of spiritual passion. …”
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Se souvenir du tribun et de l’apôtre. John Ruskin par son traducteur Émile Cammaerts (1878-1953) by Julie Lageyre

“…Émile Cammaerts (1878–1953) was a Belgian poet, journalist and dramatist. He was one of the most important translators of John Ruskin in French. …”
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Adébáyọ̀ Fálétí: The Portrait of a Cultural Connoisseur by Tunji Ọlaọpa

“… The recent death of Alàgbà Adébáyọ̀ Fálétí, father, husband, writer, poet and journalist, may not qualify as a national event. …”
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Qualques reflexions sul principi poetic e la temporalitat liura dins Sonets barròcs enta Iseut by Laurent Alibert

“…Sonèts barròcs enta Iseut (1979) shows Pierre Bec as a poet elaborating his creation upon a background of references to the medieval literature - main object of Pierre Bec’s researches as a scholar. …”
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Eliot’s Modernist Manifesto by Viorica Patea

“…The goal of this article is to rethink Eliot’s manifesto from the perspective of romantic and modernist poetics, and to reconcile the great disparity between Eliot the experimentalist avant-garde poet who advocates the aesthetics of fragmentation and the critic who pleads for the extinction of personality. …”
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‘Gay Strangers’: Reflections on Decadence and the Decadent Poetics of A. Mary F. Robinson by Ana Parejo Vadillo

“…It offers a reading of the philological poetics of her 1893 volume of poems, Retrospect, as a reflection of a poet in exile concerned with the question of how language composes feeling.…”
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LINEN SIEVES – THOUGHTS ON THE MARGIN OF ANGI ISTVÁN'S MUSICOLOGICAL WRITINGS (ANGI ISTVÁN: SITE DE IN, EDITURA MEDIA MUSICA, CLUJ-NAPOCA, 2014) by Attila FODOR

“…Its unconventional title Linen sieves, refers to a paradigmatic verse of the Transylvanian poet, Lucian Blaga, called At the Court of Yearning. …”
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On the 60th anniversary of Igor V. Vachkov by K.A. Bochaver

“…The article helps to learn about him as a scientific supervisor, editor-in-chief of “Clinical psychology and Special Education” journal, and even a poet. We congratulate dear Igor Vachkov and wish him all the best, good health and happiness!…”
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«Sempre così sperduta ai margini della vita reale…» by Chiara Pasetti

“…This article studies the Master’s thesis in philosophy of the poet Antonia Pozzi (1912-1938), devoted to Flaubert’s literary training. …”
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Translating Merwin: Navigating Nature, Place, and the Apo Koinou by Helmbrecht Breinig

“…Beginning with Merwin’s own concept of translation, this essay links his work as a poet and translator with early and recent theories of language and translation. …”
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Louisa Paulin et Max Rouquette : reconnaissance littéraire, dissensions graphiques et rendez-vous manqués by Philippe Gardy

“…At the end of the 1930s, Louisa Paulin (1880-1944), a French and Occitan writer, met the work of one of her younger siblings in Occitan literature, Max Rouquette (1908-2005), whose talents as a prose writer and then as a poet she immediately admired. The latter, in his turn, expresses in the journal OC his admiration for the first published collection of his elder, Sorgas (1940). …”
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