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Language ArtsJune 19, 2013
Unsparing Truths: On Lucille Clifton
A poet’s reckonings with suffering and indifference.
Jordan Davis
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January 7, 2013
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CultureFebruary 15, 2012
Shelf Life
David Orr’s Beautiful and Pointless: A Guide to Modern Poetry; Kenneth Goldsmith’s Uncreative Writings
Jordan Davis
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September 26, 2011
Three Poems by Jordan Davis
"Jazz As a Way of Life," "Narragansett," "Ira Will Not Be Attending the Meeting"
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ActivismApril 27, 2011
Talking With W.S. Merwin
The Poet Laureate Consultant to the Library of Congress talks about spontaneous demonstrations, his hope for poetry, and why he doesn’t read criticism anymore.
Jordan Davis
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CultureDecember 16, 2010
One of the Various: On Thomas Sayers Ellis
The best poems in Skin, Inc. have an excellent unconscious feeling, even when the news is bad and Thomas Sayers Ellis knows nobody is going to want to listen.
Jordan Davis
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PoetryApril 22, 2010
Shelf Life
The Kenning Anthology of Poets Theater; Terese Svoboda’s Weapons Grade; Bob Hicok’s Words for Empty and Words for Full.
Jordan Davis
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PoetryApril 8, 2010
A Caller of the Dove
In his poems, Mahmoud Darwish greeted even his own name warily, knowing it was something else he’d be forced to leave behind.
Jordan Davis
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CultureSeptember 23, 2009
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Autobiography and MemoirMay 6, 2009
Into the Wardrobe: C.S. Lewis’s Narnia
Laura Miller’s study of C.S. Lewis falls short of providing a coherent theory of Narnia’s magic.
Jordan Davis