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Abby Barrett edited the blog post First Song to Break My Heart in the group The Contemporary Poem: 5 years, 5 months ago
Ah, my friends…and I am back to writing about songs.
Aren’t songs the wellspring of poetry?
Or is poetry the origin of song?
In any case, the lyrical has always had the striking ability to create and […]
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Abby Barrett commented on the post, Reading through Claudia Rankine’s “Citizen”, on the groupblog The Contemporary Poem 5 years, 5 months ago
Dear Connor,
Citizen is a book that keeps coming up and that I keep wanting to read, so I’m glad that you brought it up. I agree that the second person can be a helpful way to deflect what the speaker, or […]
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Abby Barrett commented on the post, Reflection on the Kindergarten Teacher and Why Poets Write, on the groupblog The Contemporary Poem 5 years, 6 months ago
Dear Danielle,
I’ve experienced both sides of the coin in the past. In high school, I think I tried to be reckless because I thought that it would give me more interesting experiences (and implicitly, that I […]
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Abby Barrett wrote a new blog post a silly story about my boyfriend, and a Robert Hass pome in the group The Contemporary Poem: 5 years, 6 months ago
My partner Noah is both a lover of as well as constructive critic of my work, and for this I appreciate him a lot. He’s not afraid to say this is really good and I don’t understand this in the same breath, and […]
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Abby Barrett commented on the post, What we have the right to (ekphrasis, epigraphs, artistic responsibility…), on the groupblog The Contemporary Poem 5 years, 6 months ago
Olivia,
I think it’s useful how you distinguish between a ‘right’ and a ‘responsibility.’ I also felt, after hearing from David Herd, that I wanted to invite a shift in my writing, towards directly and […]
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Abby Barrett commented on the post, “Ramona” by Guster: a desire for intimacy, on the groupblog The Contemporary Poem 5 years, 6 months ago
Olivia,
I’m so glad that you were able to read through this and connect with the song! I’ve thought about this song for years now, and to be able to connect with someone over it is super exciting. I agree that […]
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Abby Barrett edited the blog post “Ramona” by Guster: a desire for intimacy in the group The Contemporary Poem: 5 years, 6 months ago
In middle school and high school, my two self-proclaimed favorite bands were Guster and CAKE. I didn’t know why I appreciated these bands, exactly, but along with the “alternative” likes of Coldplay, Death Cab for […]
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Abby Barrett commented on the post, Heavenly Bodies, on the groupblog The Contemporary Poem 5 years, 6 months ago
Hey, Sarah!
I am also very interested in fashion. I love how it gives a way for each person, whether rich or poor, to express themselves (though of course, a low-income person has very few options compared to a […] -
Abby Barrett wrote a new blog post A note on “Law” in Through in the group The Contemporary Poem: 5 years, 6 months ago
David Herd’s Through is not only a well-written, cohesive collection of poems; it’s a story about how syntax, about “who leaves the language” (11), about appellants who are “rarely white” (12), who are “spirited […]
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Abby Barrett edited the blog post Metaphysics in Kai Carlson-Wee’s “Steampipe” in the group The Contemporary Poem: 5 years, 6 months ago
Carlson-Wee places the poem “Steampipe” within section II (of V) of his collection RAIL. In reading RAIL, I immediately identified section II as a bounded network of poems connected deeply by violence. In “S […]
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Abby Barrett commented on the post, So you want me to write a Villanelle: Sylvia Plath’s “Mad Girl’s Love Song” and other obsessive verses, on the groupblog The Contemporary Poem 5 years, 6 months ago
Olivia,
I enjoy the way you eloquently flirt with the villanelle in this post. Three mentions of the form certainly is a challenge, and I look forward to seeing you take the challenge. (This is a fourth […] -
Abby Barrett commented on the post, Poetry, community, on the groupblog The Contemporary Poem 5 years, 7 months ago
Olivia,
I can offer no solutions to your questions about community. As a senior this year, I too will not be in workshops at Geneseo much longer. I know that it is something I will deeply miss. It’s not just the […] -
Abby Barrett commented on the post, eeeeeeeek. talking abt rupi kaur (again), on the groupblog The Contemporary Poem 5 years, 7 months ago
Natalie,
Thank you for addressing this. I have mixed feelings about Rupi Kaur. Like you, in some ways I’m glad she’s come to the public scene as a woman of color who discusses intimate topics, especially sex and […] -
Abby Barrett commented on the post, The naive poet and erotic poetry, on the groupblog The Contemporary Poem 5 years, 7 months ago
Daniel,
I think I have a similar experience in that explicit eroticism feels forced or contrived and that metaphors just don’t do it for me. I’ve had a difficult time writing about eroticism because in our […]
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Abby Barrett edited the blog post Brevity, pt. II in the group The Contemporary Poem: 5 years, 7 months ago
Last week in my blog post, I made a statement that I feel I should clarify rather than leaving it decontextualized on the page:
“There is nothing stopping every single poet in the world from simultaneously […]
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Abby Barrett edited the blog post On Brevity in the group The Contemporary Poem: 5 years, 7 months ago
There is nothing stopping every single poet in the world from simultaneously summarizing their future work into much smaller segments, except perhaps for the fact that detail is required in most cases to make the […]
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Abby Barrett edited the blog post Jennifer Givhan’s “I am dark, I am forest” in the group The Contemporary Poem: 5 years, 7 months ago
This summer I purchased and read the poetry collection Girl with Death Mask by author Jennifer Givhan. Givhan is a talented Mexican-American poet who often writes from her raw experiences about culture, i […]
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Abby Barrett commented on the post, To new beginnings, on the groupblog The Contemporary Poem 5 years, 7 months ago
Daniel,
How interesting that you wrote this a day before the workshop where we all personally riffed in our journals about how we conceive of form (9/5).
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Abby Barrett edited the blog post A Review of Brian Teare’s Companion Grasses; In particular, “This book can’t be sung” in the group The Contemporary Poem: 5 years, 7 months ago
Reading through Brian Teare’s Companion Grasses reminds me of the fond times I’ve spent at art museums with my boyfriend. This fondness has a hard edge, however, because this activity always feels to me like it w […]
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