Poetry Episode 24: Last class, mainly on finishing Elisa Gonzalezs Notes Toward an Elegy

Published: Dec. 6, 2022, 11:17 p.m.

b'After some last class paper topic business we spend most of the time finishing our discussion of Elisa Gonzalez\'s amazing "Notes Toward an Elegy", and its relation to Bishop in particular (not only "Casabianca" but also "Love Lies Sleeping"; cf. Gonzalez\'s "And now I lie awake pretending / everyone in the world lies still the way the living are still," which is a kind of summary of Bishop\'s poem).\\xa0 And so farewell to the class!'