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“Nothings! Turtles!”: On “The Neo-Classical Urn” by Robert Lowell

By Calista McRae

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Calista McRae
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.

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The Enemy

By Joan Larkin

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