Timothy Donnelly - February 23, 2018

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UA Poetry Center

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UA Poetry Center
The Lip of the Flamingo: A Lecture

Timothy Donnelly gives a lecture on catachresis, the uncanny, and Emily Dickinson. He also reads three poems that would later appear in The Problem of Many (2019). This lecture was originally given with Srikanth Reddy and Rachel Zucker as part of the 2018 Bagley Wright Lecture Series conference "You Are Who I Am Talking To: Poetry, Attention, and Audience."

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Welcome
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by Tyler Meier

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Introduction
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by Matthew Zapruder

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Excerpt from "'The Lip of the Flamingo’: Poetry and the Misuse of Language," "Fascination," "Diet Mountain Dew," and "The Endless"
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"The Lip of the Flamingo" is uncollected.

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Donnelly, Timothy. The Problem of the Many. Seattle: Wave Books, 2019.

 

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