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Why You Should Read 'Hook'
Wichita State English professor Adam Scheffler first encountered the poem “Hook” by James Wright when he was 20, and he’s been thinking about it ever since. He explains why it’s so memorable, and why it might stick with you too, in today’s Why Should I Read This? If a man with a sharp hook for a hand loomed out at you, as you stood alone, waiting for the bus on a snowy night, you might feel concerned. More so, if you were already depressed, freezing, and heartbroken over a failing relationship.
Why you should read 'I'm Nobody! Who Are You?'
Wichita State English professor Adam Scheffler is an Emily Dickinson superfan. But he thinks that’s a bit ironic since Dickinson cherished anonymity, not popularity. He explains in today’s Why Should I Read This? Surprisingly, being a nobody is often a good thing in literature. Odysseus told the Cyclops that his name was “Nobody” to escape being eaten, and James Gatz would have lived longer if he’d never become the Great Gatsby.
Why you should read Shakespeare's Sonnet 65
Wichita State English professor Adam Scheffler loves romance… but also values a good reality check. He explains how Shakespeare’s Sonnet 65 offers both, in today’s Why Should I Read This? Time destroys everything: statues, stones, even the continents and seas as we know them.
So This Is What It Feels Like
Description Praise Press Kit James Wright (1927–80) was considered one of the major poets of his era, winning the Pulitzer Prize in 1972, even though the intense emotion of his work could prove divisive. So This Is What It Feels Like, a new critical study by poet and critic Adam Scheffler, makes a renewed case for Wright’s importance by examining how his empathy for other people gives meaning to his poems.
Why you should read 'Ozymandias'
Wichita State English professor and poet Adam Scheffler knows you might not like poetry. But he thinks reading a nearly 200-year-old Shelley sonnet might make you change your mind. He tells us why in today’s Why Should I Read This? Percy Bysshe Shelley’s 1818 poem, “Ozymandias” is often considered the greatest sonnet ever written. When I was in graduate school, it handily won a sports bracket of 64 sonnets vying for that position, defeating both John Donne and Shakespeare.
IN-PERSON: Poetry Night with DeWitt Henry, Caitlin Krause, and Adam Scheffler
April is National Poetry Month and Wellesley Books will be hosting events throughout the month. First up is an evening with poets DeWitt Henry, Caitlin Krause, and Adam Scheffler. ------------------------------------- ABOUT THE AUTHORS DeWitt Henry DeWitt Henry’s most recent books are FOUNDLINGS: FOUND POEMS FROM PROSE, (Gazebo Books/Life Before Man, 2022) and RESTLESS FOR WORDS: POEMS (Finishing Line Press, 2023).
Damnation Spring A Novel by Ash Davidson
Scribner Book Company | 2021 | 464 pages The title of Ash Davidson’s debut novel Damnation Spring immediately calls to mind Rachel Carson’s 1962 environmental classic Silent Spring. In one of the most important science books of all time, Carson wrote about the lethal aftereffects of DDT and other synthetic pesticides.
"Florence, Kentucky" by Adam Scheffler
So what if the old man on the bus is trying and failing to remember his dead mom’s face, as if the past were not a cartoon tunnel scratched on a wall? He’s still trying, and when did we forget our cattle-shoes and feather-parkas, how we carry with us a lowing sadness, an extinguished memory of flight?
Florence, Kentucky
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