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Thank you for your insightful comment, David. I think that what misgivings I have about irony are based on the observation -- and the experience -- that in the most profound encounters with the holy (i.e., the divine, the sublime, the spiritual -- the other), irony and ornament are stripped away. But I do also acknowledge that irony can characterize our attempts -- usually our frustrated attempts -- at transcendence. -LH
Commented Nov 6, 2012 on The Age of Irony? by Luke Hankins at The Best American Poetry
The Age of Irony? by Luke Hankins
A certain kind of irony is fashionable in contemporary American poetry. The kind of irony I mean is a tonal façade of disaffection, of jadedness. Read a handful of the thousands of literary magazines or books of poetry published in the U.S. every year, and you’re sure to encounter it frequently....
Some Poems of Devotion [by Luke Hankins]
Posted Nov 4, 2012 at The Best American Poetry
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Thank you for reading, and for your kind words, John.
Commented Nov 4, 2012 on The Age of Irony? by Luke Hankins at The Best American Poetry
The Age of Irony? by Luke Hankins
A certain kind of irony is fashionable in contemporary American poetry. The kind of irony I mean is a tonal façade of disaffection, of jadedness. Read a handful of the thousands of literary magazines or books of poetry published in the U.S. every year, and you’re sure to encounter it frequently....
On Virtuosity and Simplicity, by Luke Hankins
Posted Nov 1, 2012 at The Best American Poetry
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Patrice de la Tour du Pin and Amit Majmudar, by Luke Hankins
Posted Oct 30, 2012 at The Best American Poetry
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The Age of Irony? by Luke Hankins
Posted Oct 29, 2012 at The Best American Poetry
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