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Matthew Kilbane

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Sep 2026

Hymns Among Ruins; or, Modern Poetry’s Midcentury Inflation

During and after World War II the Mexican poet Octavio Paz (1914–98) and two of his first English-language translators in the United States, Muriel Rukeyser (1913–80) and William Carlos Williams (1883–1963), expatiated on poetic form’s existential significance and political utility. Williams crusaded for a “new measu...

Matthew Kilbane · 0 citations
Jun 2026

Gathering Thorns (Some Types of Ambivalence)

Abstract:Emily Hunt's long poem "Company" (2019) transcribes in autopsical focus the hasty skilling, drudgery, waste, precarity, and hard-pressed intimacies that gave shape, day after day, to the poet's stint as an employee of BloomThat, an app-based flower delivery start-up. Turning inside-out the timeworn analogy of...

Matthew Kilbane · 0 citations

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