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Hemingway's story 'Hills Like White Elephants' is filled with twosomes. Indeed, the title itself presents a pair: 'Hills' like 'White Elephants.' It is a natural temptation, when confronted with such couplings, to choose one or the other: either the Hills or the White Elephants. This temptation passes something crucial by, though--namely, the 'like.' This paper argues--through a healthy dose of psychoanalysis--that in this story Hemingway is attempting to heed these in-between third terms, of which the simile is one, to tarry with them, and to refrain from choosing one of the pair over the other. KEYWORDS: Simile, Lacan, Psychoanalysis, 'For all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts tangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them.' --George Eliot, Middlemarch In an essay published over sixty [...]

Bialostosky, Don. How to Play a Poem. U of Pittsburgh P, 2017. 235 pp. ISBN: 978-08229-6437-7 Burt, Stephanie. Don't Read Poetry: A Book about How to Read Poems. Basic Books, [...]

A literary criticism of the book "After Callimachus: Poems" by Stephanie Burt is presented. Topics include considered that Callimachus wit and stylistic elegance appealed to and influenced the great Roman poets who came after him as well as western poetry generally; and examines that his work exists only in fragmentary form, some of it fairly lengthy, some as short as a single line.

The article informs about the contributors to Contemporary Literature, including Stephanie Burt, Henry Ivry, Julia C. Obert, Joshua Pederson, Molly Slavin, and Timothy Yu. Topics discussed encompass various literary themes such as contemporary poetry, climate crisis, colonial cities, postcolonial literature, moral injury, and Asian American studies.

The poem "Thaw" by Stephanie Burt is presented. First Line: My life is my own but my time; Last Line: to choose your name.

The poem "Over Atlanta" by Stephanie Burt is presented. First Line: It seems to you—others who have already gathered; Last Line: than one person. You are not there yet.

The article gives a list of contributors including Ingrid Becker, Visiting Assistant Professor of Human Rights at Bard College; Stephanie Burt, Professor of English at Harvard University.

A poem "WHO ARE YOU" by Stephanie Burt, is presented. First Line: Possibly nobody over ten ever considered; Last Line: the words in the chorus to Mountains of the Moon.

A poem "CINDERELLA" by Stephanie Burt, is presented. First Line: The trans story is the heroine has to be trans; Last Line: her search for the one, the terrific, the just-right shoe.

A poem "WHEN YOU ARE NINE" by Stephanie Burt, is presented. First Line: You are the spines inside a strawberry, stuffed full of white bread after; Last Line: its spurs tipped up to the sky.

Burt, Stephanie. Don't Read Poetry: A Book About How to Read Poems. New York: Basic Books, 2019. Stephanie Burt says don't read poetry, read poems--for example, ones about character, form, [...]

Parallel Play by Stephen Burt, Graywolf Press, 2006, $14.00 paper, ISBN 1555974376. In an article in the Believer called 'Close Calls with Nonsense: How to Read, and Perhaps Enjoy, Very [...]

The poem "In Memory of the Space Shuttle Atlantis" by Stephanie Burt is presented. First Line: Snub-nosed, hot-tiled, squared-off and four-eyed, Last Line: such things you could not want to leave behind.

A poem "James Smith & Sons Umbrellas, Parasols, Etc. (Since 1878)" by Stephanie Burt is presented. First Line: Someone will probably love you for who you are. Last Line: stay here.

A poem "Prayer for Werewolves" by Stephanie Burt is presented. First Line: Someone will probably love you for who you are. Last Line: stay here.

The poem "Loaf," by Stephanie Burt is presented. First Line: I LEAN AND LOAF AT MY EASE; Last Line: or as a surprise.

The poem "Snow," by Stephanie Burt is presented. First Line: It used to settle on the crowns of trees; Last Line: naive enough to be afraid of wolves.