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UA Poetry Center
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UA Poetry Center
Khaled Mattawa: A Lecture
Khaled Mattawa presents a lecture on the long poem, in which he considers different types of long poems, their inspiration and subject matter, and their effect. The lecture incorporates portions of a published essay, "Epic Temptations: On an Unwritten Poem." Mattawa also reads from a sequence of poems in progress that would later appear in Fugitive Atlas (2020).
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Excerpts from "Epic Temptations: On an Unwritten Poem"
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Differs from published version.
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Citation
Mattawa, Khaled. How Long Have You Been With Us? Essays on Poetry. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2016.
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On Muriel Rukeyser's "The Book of the Dead"
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Uncollected.
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"Face: To the One Million Plus"
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Published version bears the title "Face." Differs from published version.
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Citation
Mattawa, Khaled. Fugitive Atlas. Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, 2020.
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