Bonsai is huge

Greek, melan means "black" and khole "bile." What's a poem without the most pernicious disorder of the body and soul?  Pain and illness.  If your poem is nostalgic and melancholic, see a doctor.

 When we attend to the poem’s sounds, another dimension of the poem flowers.”

 but with our constrained definition of meaning. 

September 11, 2001, and I hustled to complete a lecture on  imagery when my wife called

It was  my second week as a newly-minted  professor in the Midwest,

 Her name has a vaguely familiar ring.

Ketty La Rocca follows Adrian Piper.

 those who think the Doors are a hokey caricature of male rock stardom and those who think they’re

There are two kinds of people in this world