Abad’s “Native Clearing”

Making Abad’s “Native Clearing” Personal
“Every poem is a poem within a poem: the poem of the idea within the poem of the words.”
– Wallace Stevens
This essay attempts to make a “personal, subjective, [and] perhaps even eccentric” (Lynn 1994, 6) sense of some Gemino Abad poems1 in relation to his concept of a “Native Clearing.”
Understanding [...]

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