Entries published during September, 2017
September 24, 2017
Reception Study Society
Seventh Biannual Conference
St. Catherine University, St. Paul
21–23 September 2017
Celebrating Forty Years
of Feminist Reception
Sarah Hagelin
Daniel Morris
Jennifer Freeman Marshall
Burt Kimmelman
Paula Rabinowitz
J. Peter Moore
Susan Wegener
Stephen Paul Miller
Molli Spalter
Isaac Pickell
… More
September 3, 2017
[In memory of John Ashbery]
THE BUNGALOWS
Impatient as we were for all of them to join us,
The land had not yet risen into view: gulls had swept the gray steel towers away
So that it profited less to go searching, away over the humming earth
Than to stay in immediate relation to these other things—boxes, store parts, whatever you wanted to call them—
Whose installedness was the price of further revolutions, so you knew this combat was the last.
And still the relationship waxed, billowed like scenery on the breeze.
They are the same aren’t they,
The presumed landscape and the dream of home
Because the people are all homesick today or desperately sleeping,
Trying to remember how those rectangular shapes
Became so extraneous and so near
To create a foreground of quiet knowledge
In which youth had grown old, chanting and singing wise hymns that
Will sign for old age
And so lift up the past to be persuaded, and be put down again.
