Calista McRae is an associate professor at the New Jersey Institute of Technology and the author of Lyric as Comedy: The Poetics of Abjection in Postwar America (Cornell University Press, 2020). She is currently working on a book tentatively titled Other Species and Our Feelings: Animal Ethics in Contemporary Lyric.
“Nothings! Turtles!”: On “The Neo-Classical Urn” by Robert Lowell
In “The Neo-Classical Urn,” published in The Kenyon Review’s Winter 1964 issue, Robert Lowell recounts something he did one summer as a boy: He caught dozens of turtles and put […]