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Evans Lansing Smith
I recently dreamt about Joseph Campbell, who died in 1987. It was twilight and he was standing on a bridge over a small dark river. I walked towards him, and…
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Illustrates that the descent to the underworld is the single most important myth in Pynchon’s work, conferring shape and significance upon each of his novels. This book offers a perspective…
This text provides an overview of the hero journey theme in literature, from antiquity to the present, with a focus on the imagery of the rites of passage in human…
James Merrill was known for his mastery of prosody; and his ability to write books that were not just collected poems, but unified works in which each individual poem contributed…
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This Skeleton Key Study Guide to Joseph Campbell's The Flight of the Wild Gander lets you read Campbell alongside a Campbell expert, focusing on the origins of myth and the…
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These poems follow Ezra Pound’s mandate to Make It new by offering adaptations of haiku stanzas, in lyric and narrative sequences, revolving around the eternal themes of love, death, and…
There’s a precision to the language and storytelling in Evans Lansing Smith’s haunting and provocative mystery in verse Middleburg that I deeply admire. Told in skillfully constructed Sapphic stanzas, these…
A coming of age novel about a young poet set in the USA, London, and Dublin
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Tikkun refers to the Kabbalistic mythology associated with the Sephiroth, vessels created to contain the energies emanating from the divine (En-Sof). Those vessels were unable to contain those energies and…
Joseph Campbell
Joseph Campbell made the power of story undeniable through the power of his own storytelling. Editor Evans Lansing Smith here collects Campbell writings on Arthurian legends that make events like…
