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“The Long French Road to Spain”: Pilgrimage, Allusion, and the Documentary Mode in Rukeyser’s The Book of the Dead
In a 1938 review for Poetry, Willard Maas critiques The Book of the Dead’s documentary mode, stating “the signs of the road lead her...
Cal Smith
Apr 15, 202419 min read
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A Becoming Shade of Blue
Date submitted: 27 September 2023 Date accepted: 7 November 2023
Melissa Varley
Apr 9, 20241 min read
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Fondue
I’m thinking of ending things— To rephrase, my relationship with cold Horrible, unworthy thoughts That see me simmering, diffused, and...
Sophie Keenan
Apr 1, 20241 min read
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The Fracturing and Reintegration of the Self in *Severance* as Commentary on Dante’s *Inferno*
This essay contains major spoilers for the show Severance. It has been argued that Dante's metaphysical worldview is alien to modern...
Olga Tsygankova
Apr 1, 202420 min read
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Fletching
An arrow only flies as true as its fletching; the feathers laid sharp on the end of your ruin. It must be like this So I can, unimpeded,...
Fabrizio Lacarra Ramirez
Apr 1, 20241 min read
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Little Red
Your red hood on high, Riding fast through the countryside– My little red hood; Blood rose, cherry pit, Sangiovese, open-wound. Bicycle...
Fabrizio Lacarra Ramirez
Apr 1, 20241 min read
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The Agenda On Our Heads: Lice, Satire, A Female Interviewer
On the television and the many social media feeds I am chained to, I see a woman ask a man if the pyramids were built from the top down...
Paz O’Farrell
Apr 1, 202411 min read
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From the Library of Clarissa Dalloway: Reading Memory, Casual Allusion, and Characterization in *Mrs. Dalloway*
“She knew nothing; no language, no history; she scarcely read a book now, except memoirs in bed” (Woolf 7); so Clarissa Dalloway...
Violette Drouin
Apr 1, 202416 min read
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The (Un)sleeping Dead: Zombie Apocalypse and the Annihilation of Sleep under 24/7 Capitalism
We are living through an unprecedented crisis in sleep. This idea is clearly alive in the popular imagination, from articles advising us...
Jasper Sattentau
Apr 1, 202417 min read
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Disaffected Prayer
In response to “‘Uninterrupted Joy, Unrivalled Love’: Reading Paradise Lost Through Affective Prayer” by Shelby Haber. When I first...
Ronny Litvack-Katzman
Sep 13, 20235 min read
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The “Lyric Self”
Psychosis, Self-Estrangement, and Estrangement from Reality in Robert Lowell’s Neurodiverse Poetry “And some go mystical, and some go...
Bram Thorpe
Sep 13, 202322 min read
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Vocation and Dress in *Jude the Obscure*
Throughout Jude the Obscure, Thomas Hardy pays a great deal of attention to clothing details, lingering on sartorial choices and changes...
Katie Lund
Sep 13, 202317 min read
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Sun trine Pluto: Astrology, AI, and spirituality
The Devil’s Dictionary tells us that astrology is “[the] science of making the dupe see stars” (ASTROLOGY - The Devil’s Dictionary...
Cassandra Luca
Sep 13, 202317 min read
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A Farewell to Feminism in *Top Girls*: Caryl Churchill’s Antithetical Utopic Feminism
The place of the feminine within literary and political discourse and the discussion of the complexities of gender continues as an...
Aamna Rashid
Sep 13, 202318 min read
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Space Odyssey Redux
In Eleusian fields, I’m delusional still Crawling past the edge, hedging all my bets Initiated into lex, Now I cannot repent. To wash my...
Petro Analytis
Sep 13, 20231 min read
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January Sun
At last comes the long-awaited month after the solstice. The snow-glint yellow sun dancing on the still-porous surface of the frozen...
Violette Drouin
Sep 13, 20231 min read
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Modern Theology
I came across Cain and Abel in my front yard. Rolling in the dirt, their faces (and thus their souls) were obscure to me. Had I been able...
Bronwyn Miles
Sep 13, 20231 min read
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Passing Time
I watch the sunlight As it slithers after its own shadows Across my walls, Leaving stroboscopic imprints Of its movements In egg-yolk...
Mahin Siddiki
Sep 13, 20231 min read
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“I Wore a Ski Mask to Hide My Shame”: *White Noise* Review
White Noise, directed by Noah Baumbach, is a confident, often chaotic, and consistently funny adaptation of the 1985 novel by Don...
Cal Smith
Mar 1, 20233 min read
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