Saturday, March 27, 2010

Journal Review: Burnside Review

Review of Burnside Review (Bob Lucky)1. I learned almost simultaneously about Burnside Review through the link to poetry journals Professor Pimentel-Chacón sent us and through some fairly random research I was doing on poetry contests. Matthew Dickman’s name came up as a judge in an upcoming chapbook contest, so I decided to check out the journal.2....
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Journal Review: Modern Haiku

A Review of A Literary Journal: Modern Haiku Bob Lucky1) how you came to know about this journal/publisher: This is the grand-daddy of English language haiku, having weathered several of the shifts in haiku practice in English since it began publishing in 1969. Like many people, I was introduced to haiku, the old 5-7-5 pedagogical model,...
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Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Ariel o el lento proceso de tocar fondo.

Es inevitable cuestionar, gracias a su publicación póstuma, si Ariel alcanzó tal grado de celebridad por su calidad literaria o por los trágicos eventos en los que se vio envuelta la aparición de este poemario, mismos que continuan alimentando la fascinación mórbida del lector: Ariel fue escrito durante los últimos meses anteriores a su suicidio, hasta...
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Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Bocados negros en sangre dulceUn comentario a Ariel de Sylvia Plath (1962)Margarita Ruiz SotoDesde su título, el poema Ariel de Sylvia Plath me aleja del mundo en que se inscribe la verdad personal que tortura a la voz poética. Su misterio me expulsa...
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Ariel

Ariel immediately involves itself in breaking down abstractions by using physical notions, only to rearrange them into abstract illustrations once more. Throughout the book, the use of the physical and the abstract is constant, often rendering the poems as illusive peeks into an over-all cohesive narrative. Plath often further complicates matters by...
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Crítica Sylvia Plath

Ariel, de Sylvia PlathOscar Godoy BarbosaSylvia Plath (1932-1963), escritora y poeta nacida en Boston, ha sido considerada como uno de los más claros exponentes de la llamada poesía confesional, es decir, aquella que explora y revela los detalles, aún los más escabrosos, de la intimidad del poeta. Para escribir esta nota me apoyaré en la lectura de...
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