Published in 1978, Schubertiana, a poem from Tomas Tranströmer’s eighth volume of poems, Sanningsbarriären (Truth Barriers), explores the ways in which music functions as an antidote to the fragmentation that often defines contemporary life. As typically happens in Tranströmer’s work,… Read More ›
urban alienation in poetry
Analysis of Constantine Cavafy’s He Was Asking about the Quality
The charms of shopping have never been more celebrated than in this most delicate and intriguing poem about mutual and tacit recognition. He Was Asking about the Quality— (Πὠτoυσε για την πoιóτητα—) elaborates on a moment of successful intersubjective gaze… Read More ›