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Such would-be scientific treatises in fact functioned more like manifestos, and decisively influenced Eliot and Ezra Pound’s generation to favor a poetics of the objective sensuous image over one of the dramatic declamatory mood.
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Benjamin Kunkel, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2024
In his collaborations with Bernardo Bertolucci, Ridley Scott, Sam Raimi, Michael Bay and Gus Van Sant (among many, many others), Scalia has proved able to both adhere to and reinvent the poetics and formal research of these auteurs.
—Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 June 2023
Bassiouni’s approach is informed by the aesthetic values of Islamic art, such as the importance ascribed to geometry, and the notion of euphony with regard to the poetics of the Quran.
—M. Z. Adnan, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2023
This revelation leads into a section on the speaker’s survival; her poetics both name a pattern of neglect for Black women — from Aaliyah to Oluwatoyin Salau — and mark the specificity of her own abuse.
—Ryan Lee Wong, Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec. 2022
The memorial’s spatial poetics—the balance between circular pathways and blocks of granite, its enduring engravings of names in stone and perennials for texture and color through the seasons—ground its intent.
—Jesse Dorris, The New Yorker, 26 Nov. 2022
Now in its third decade, Macondo offers workshops to a diverse student body on subjects ranging from young-adult literature to translingual poetics.
—Yxta Maya Murray, The New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2022
Her films reimagine characters borrowed from politics, mythology, geology or science and travel across different dimensions of time and space, addressing the issues of an uncertain future through specific narratives and poetics.
—Leo Barraclough, Variety, 25 June 2022
The point is the poetics of it all, the atmosphere, the vibe.
—Vogue, 17 June 2022
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Benjamin Kunkel, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2024
In his collaborations with Bernardo Bertolucci, Ridley Scott, Sam Raimi, Michael Bay and Gus Van Sant (among many, many others), Scalia has proved able to both adhere to and reinvent the poetics and formal research of these auteurs.
—Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 June 2023
Bassiouni’s approach is informed by the aesthetic values of Islamic art, such as the importance ascribed to geometry, and the notion of euphony with regard to the poetics of the Quran.
—M. Z. Adnan, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2023
This revelation leads into a section on the speaker’s survival; her poetics both name a pattern of neglect for Black women — from Aaliyah to Oluwatoyin Salau — and mark the specificity of her own abuse.
—Ryan Lee Wong, Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec. 2022
The memorial’s spatial poetics—the balance between circular pathways and blocks of granite, its enduring engravings of names in stone and perennials for texture and color through the seasons—ground its intent.
—Jesse Dorris, The New Yorker, 26 Nov. 2022
Now in its third decade, Macondo offers workshops to a diverse student body on subjects ranging from young-adult literature to translingual poetics.
—Yxta Maya Murray, The New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2022
Her films reimagine characters borrowed from politics, mythology, geology or science and travel across different dimensions of time and space, addressing the issues of an uncertain future through specific narratives and poetics.
—Leo Barraclough, Variety, 25 June 2022
The point is the poetics of it all, the atmosphere, the vibe.
—Vogue, 17 June 2022
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“Poetics.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/poetics. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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