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Ira Sadoff: Modernism, Writing Workshops, and the Myth of Closure (July 1995)

$5.00

Our writing workshops, Ira Sadoff argues, are still “weighed down by the discourse of Modernism,” including the idea that a poem must close with unity and transcendence.  Who, Sadoff asks, created this idea of “unity,” and what does it exclude?  Can we ignore that these ideas originated in a White, male tradition?  Sadoff draws on work by Wallace Stevens, James Wright, Gerald Stern, John Ashbery, Lynn Hejinian and others to consider these questions and offer a different way of evaluating a poem’s closure. 

Category: Residency Craft Lectures Tag: Poetry
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1995 – July

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Sadoff, Ira

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