@outsidadgitator That’s how I think of it too, but then there are poems that don’t exactly fit as praise or affirmation, like Keats’s “Ode on Melancholy.” I always accept the designation but feel funny saying it, like ordering food in a French restaurant knowing my pronunciation is awful.
@outsidadgitator Ode is a category I’ve never understood (Robert Hass calls it a mode, like satire, rather than genre), but anyway Julia de Burgos wrote quite a bit that I think fits, like this one for Grito de Lares.
@bdjansenphd@nrduford When I arrived at UMO many books still had pockets and check-out cards. You could see who checked them out and also their ID numbers…which were (I kid you not) social security numbers.
THREAD. Today's article by New York Times reporter Devlin Barrett is a good example of how bad journalism can normalize authoritarianism. Let's look at a particularly egregious example.
@AdamsOrArdor I edit Paideuma, which used to be the journal of Ezra Pound scholarship. We still receive several submissions a year on The Cantos, but nearly all of them are on Pound and China and most come from overseas.