The Dead by George Pavlakis

“…Pavlakis, MD, PhD, has published (in Greek) a collection of poems as well as memoirs from the years of students’ resistance against the Greek military dictatorship (1967-1974). …”
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L’imaginaire de l’exil chez Kay Boyle by Anne Reynes

“…In the wake of Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams, she experimented with the image as a way of reaching for a new sense of “locality”. In the poems published in the magazine transition in the late 20s and early 30s, the image is instrumental in the exploration of a “collective memory” of the American land whose intention was to reimagine a community where the poet would find his true place and function.…”
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Étude de « On the Island » de Patrick MacDonogh by Jean-Claude Castangt

“…I study the poem for its intrinsic qualities and its relation with MacDonogh’s poetic arts and practices. …”
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Is Something Taking Place in the Sketches from the Sierra de Tejeda by John Fuller? by Aurélien Saby

“…Is something actually happening in these poems? If so, where, and how? The sonnet sequence offers uncanny depictions of apparently insignificant events questioning stable bearings while suggesting that something deeper is going on elsewhere, beyond the poet’s reach. …”
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What Place Takes Place in Jordan Abel’s The Place of Scraps ? by Claire Omhovère

“…Jordan Abel’s The Place of Scraps (2013) addresses the interrogations faced by those who grew up deprived of the language, beliefs and memories of their ancestors as a result of the cultural genocide perpetrated against the Indigenous peoples of North America to whom his first collection of poems is dedicated. Because Abel’s primary material comprises texts and images that have been widely circulated as first-hand knowledge about the Pacific Northwest, his compositions expose the discursive layers that inform Euro-Canadian representations of aboriginal places, particularly the enduring fascination for the totem pole’s interlacing of lineage, spirituality and territory in the place it indicates.…”
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THE CHARACTER NGUYEN DU FROM POETRY TO NOVELS by Nguyễn Thị Thẩm Mỹ

“…On the basis of learning and analyzing Chinese poems by Nguyen Du and the novel about this great poet by Nguyen The Quang, the author of this article ventures to clarify the similarities and differences of the character Nguyen Du between poetry and the aforementioned novel. …”
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Spenser’s Popular Pastoral: Hodgepodges and Genre Trouble in The Shepheardes Calender by Abigail Shinn

“…Highlighting references to almanacs, ballads and festival culture, alongside the poem’s use of regional and colloquial language, I argue that Spenser’s distinctly English pastoral includes a commingling of classical precedent with popular motifs. …”
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Assessing Poetry and Diction in Contemporary Uganda: A Case Study Of "Building The Nation". by Muhanguzi, Amos

“…Poetry lovers claim that diction leads to problems such as slow interpretation of poems since difficult words are used in Barlow's poem; Building the Nation since they don't easily adapt to the changes in the words used by these poets. …”
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“Whimsies and Crochets”: Pragmatism, Poetry, and Literary Criticism’s Founding Gesture  by Kristen Case

“…Using as its key texts George Oppen’s 21 Poems and I.A. Richards' introduction to The Principles of Literary Criticism, this essay argues, first, that in the early decades of the twentieth century pragmatist epistemology and ethos of participation had a transformative effect on U.S. poetry, and second, that in these same decades, the then-emergent profession of literary criticism refused to absorb the participatory ethos, even as other disciplines, perhaps most notably education and anthropology, were being transformed by it. …”
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Junqueiro and Saramago : Portugal, God and the human being by Carlos Nogueira

“…Starting from José Saramago's words about the book of poems Finis Patriae (1891) by Guerra Junqueiro, this article draws parallels between the lives and works of these two Portuguese authors who, during their lifetimes, had a significant impact on the national collective consciousness. …”
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A arte de andar nas ruas de Brasília by Sophia Beal

“…What is the role of the pedestrian ina city designed for car travel and shaped like an airplane? This series of poems,crônicas, contos, and songs (by Nicolas Behr, Aborto Elétrico, Capital Inicial,Legião Urbana, GOG, José RezendeJr., Pedro Biondi, Liziane Guazina, FernandaBarreto, and Augusto Rodrigues) overturn Brasília‘s top-down origins andorganization, suggesting that current residents as they walk around the city intheir daily lives—are creating and transforming the capital in significant ways.…”
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Écrire « au nom de l’Abeille, du Papillon et de la Brise » : figures animalières et paysagères dans les écrits d’Emily Dickinson. by Estève Marie

“…The article studies how animal figures are introduced in a few early poems and in the beginning of the first fascicle to encompass their relating to XIXth context and to the poetic project to write from within the tradition of lyricism while transforming traditional animal tropes, thanks to the circulation of voices and the passing of the poetic wording (and worlding) to relaying animal and other landscape figures.…”
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Saraus das periferias de São Paulo: poesia entre tragos, silêncios e aplausos by Lucía Tennina

“…The analyze considers also the style of the poems that are frequently declaimed on those spaces. …”
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Les préliminaires textuels de Robert Browning by Yann Tholoniat

“…From his first poems onwards, Browning displayed a great interest in paratextual strategies—« from title page to closing line », as is said in his poem « Sibrandus Schafnaburgensis » (Dramatic Romances and Lyrics, 1845). …”
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“Un-American Confessions”: Translation as Subversion in Robert Lowell’s Life Studies (1959) by Simon Van Schalkwyk

“…This article argues that Robert Lowell’s employment of techniques of poetic "imitation" - a liberal form of translation - during the composition of the Life Studies poems allows him to simultaneously stage and to conceal his reliance upon foreign poetic sources. …”
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Mimesis de la douleur chez George Oppen et J. H. Prynne by Xavier Kalck

“…The question matters all the more as the poems do not partake of collage as the belated sign of modernist claims. …”
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‘I’m grown a man no doubt, I’ve broken bounds’—Robert Browning Crossing the Limits of Poetry by Jean-Charles Perquin

“…This paper will focus on Robert Browning’s poetic writings, and especially on the way his poems were a constant crossroads of formal choices, from his very first publications to his last poem. …”
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Translating Laura E. Richards into Polish by Anna Maria Czernow , Aleksandra Wieczorkiewicz 

“…In the process of translating Laura E. Richards’s poems into Polish, we decided to use two approaches: translating “Eletelephony” collectively and “My Japanese Fan” independently.  …”
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Coda: The “Queen Under the Hill,” or, Robert Duncan’s Lesson in Essential Autobiography by Rob Halpern

“…In 1987, I traveled with a copy of Duncan’s The Opening of the Field, and while I could not fully comprehend the poems, the book nevertheless offered me a model – for better and for worse – for sublimating my sexuality during the worst years of the AIDS crisis. …”
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Balaghah Ar-Ritsa’ Fii Syair Al-Khanasa’ Min Nihayah Al-Lafdhi Wa Al-Ma’ani by Sumardi Sumardi, Ivan Aulia Trisnady, Zulkhairi Sofyan

“…One of the Muslim poets, companions, believers, and patient mothers is Al-Khansa. Al-Khansa’a’s poems are related to the purposes of poetry in general, and one of them is lamentation, which is the prominent poetry purpose in pre-Islamic and Islamic poetry, and it occupies a significant place in the poems of most poets. …”
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