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Has teaching objective truths become inconvenient?
POETRY MONDAY: March 2, 2020
Howard F. Stein
Well, everyone, it seems we’re moving toward spring at last, because the days are getting longer here in the eastern U.S. I’m glad to be back with you after my prolonged book leave to work on a new anthology, What They Bring: The Poetry of Migration and Immigration (IPBooks, 2020), especially relevant in this case because it includes poems by the person whose photo you see above.
This is the first time I’ve ever featured a poet whose work I first encountered as non-fiction prose. The book was Developmental Time, Cultural Space (University of Oklahoma Press, 1987), and it impressed me because it reinforced and helped to develop some of the thoughts I was having as I approached the difficult task of gathering poems for the new anthology I was planning with my co-editor, Jim Haba.
Howard F. Stein is professor emeritus in the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, where he taught for nearly 35 years. I learned that Continue reading POETRY MONDAY: March 2, 2020
Howard F. Stein
Well, everyone, it seems we’re moving toward spring at last, because the days are getting longer here in the eastern U.S. I’m glad to be back with you after my prolonged book leave to work on a new anthology, What They Bring: The Poetry of Migration and Immigration (IPBooks, 2020), especially relevant in this case because it includes poems by the person whose photo you see above.
This is the first time I’ve ever featured a poet whose work I first encountered as non-fiction prose. The book was Developmental Time, Cultural Space (University of Oklahoma Press, 1987), and it impressed me because it reinforced and helped to develop some of the thoughts I was having as I approached the difficult task of gathering poems for the new anthology I was planning with my co-editor, Jim Haba.
Howard F. Stein is professor emeritus in the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, where he taught for nearly 35 years. I learned that Continue reading POETRY MONDAY: March 2, 2020
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Review of Climate of Opinion edited by Irene Willis Reviewed by Dante Di Stefano in The Best American Poetry
Click Here to Purchase: Climate of Opinion: Sigmund Freud in Poetry edited by Irene Willis on IPBooks.net
Climate of Opinion: Sigmund Freud in Poetry
Ed. Irene Willis IP Books, 2017 Review by Dante Di Stefano in The Best American Poetry 2019.
Irene Willis has curated a lively and compelling anthology of poetic engagements with Freud and his complicated psychoanalytic and cultural legacies. The anthology begins with the elegy by W.H. Auden, “For Sigmund Freud,” which ends:
Our rational voice is dumb; over a grave
The household of impulse mourns one dearly loved:
Sad in Eros, builder of cities,
And weeping anarchic Aphrodite.
David Lehman’s “Freud Quiz” concludes the volume on a buoyant and anodyne note. Between Auden and Lehman, Willis anthologizes poems by H.D., Anna Freud, Anne Carson, Dorothy Parker, Alicia Ostriker, Toi Derricotte, Stephen Dobyns, Lynn Emanuel, Louise Glück, Anne Sexton, David Giannini, and many more. Some of the highlights of the anthology Continue reading Review of Climate of Opinion edited by Irene Willis Reviewed by Dante Di Stefano in The Best American Poetry
