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Altitudes, a homemade taxonomy : image, diction, and rhetoric
"'Tis backed like a weasel" : the slipperiness of metaphor
Three tenors : Pinsky, Hass, Glück, and the deployment of talent
Self-consciousness
Two roads diverged : character, metaphor, and destiny in the poems of Matthews and Levis
Obsession : "Are you still writing about your father?"
Sad anthropologists : the dialectical use of tone
On disproportion
Polka dots, stripes, and plaids : decorative instincts and compositional strategies in poetry
Fragment, juxtaposition, and completeness : some notes and preferences
Thingitude and causality : in praise of materialism
Fear of narrative and the skittery poem of our moment
Fashion victims : the misfortunes of aesthetic fate
Negative capability : how to talk mean and influence people.
"'Tis backed like a weasel" : the slipperiness of metaphor
Three tenors : Pinsky, Hass, Glück, and the deployment of talent
Self-consciousness
Two roads diverged : character, metaphor, and destiny in the poems of Matthews and Levis
Obsession : "Are you still writing about your father?"
Sad anthropologists : the dialectical use of tone
On disproportion
Polka dots, stripes, and plaids : decorative instincts and compositional strategies in poetry
Fragment, juxtaposition, and completeness : some notes and preferences
Thingitude and causality : in praise of materialism
Fear of narrative and the skittery poem of our moment
Fashion victims : the misfortunes of aesthetic fate
Negative capability : how to talk mean and influence people.