by Michelle Lewis | Poetry & Poetics |
In Joshua Poteat’s poem “Hitchhiking in the Dying South” from Ornithologies, the poet is reminded of an accident along the road. Without veering too far from the matrix of the poem, Poteat constructs a landscape that both enlarges and compresses, as...
by Michelle Lewis | Poetry & Poetics |
Gregory Orr has described the lyric poem as the I’s perception of a single incident in which the poet was overwhelmed by extreme emotion and disorder. (Wordsworth also refers to the lyric as a “spontaneous overflow of feeling”, but I appreciate Orr’s addition of...
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