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About Andrew Field

Andrew Field is a poet and librarian. He has published book reviews at The Rumpus and Jerry Magazine, essays about poetry at The California Journal of Poetics, B O D Y Literature, and Empty Mirror, and poetry at The Ocean State Review and Mantis. In August of 2016, his chapbook All I Want was published by Red Flag Poetry. He blogs at https://andrewfield81.wordpress.com/ and tweets @Afield81.

“Only the Lull I Like”: Walt Whitman’s Image of Silence

Andrew Field

Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass silence

Introduction In his chapter on “Language” in Nature, Ralph Waldo Emerson writes that “We know more from nature than we can at will communicate” (23). It is a strange sentence. It suggests a … [Read more...]

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Established in 2000 and edited by Denise Enck, Empty Mirror is an online literary magazine that publishes new work each Friday.

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