Author: Peter Quartermain
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817357483
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Stubborn Poetries is a study of poets whose work, because of its difficulty or simple resistance to conventional explication, remains more or less firmly outside the canon. Book jacket.
Stubborn Poetries
Author: Peter Quartermain
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817357483
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Stubborn Poetries is a study of poets whose work, because of its difficulty or simple resistance to conventional explication, remains more or less firmly outside the canon. Book jacket.
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817357483
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Stubborn Poetries is a study of poets whose work, because of its difficulty or simple resistance to conventional explication, remains more or less firmly outside the canon. Book jacket.
Stubborn
Author: Roland Flint
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252061325
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Selected by Dave Smith as one of the five volumes published in 1990 in the National Poetry Series "I could not leave this book aside nor, among so many worthy others, could I choose another. It interested me, crooned to me, and in the end I loved it. I hope he writes many more. Read it. You will see why." -- Dave Smith "A poet whose own craft is beyond dispute and whose gifted heart has something to tell us about our ordinary selves we had almost despaired of hearing again in the American tongue." --John D. Bernard, Poet Lore
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252061325
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Selected by Dave Smith as one of the five volumes published in 1990 in the National Poetry Series "I could not leave this book aside nor, among so many worthy others, could I choose another. It interested me, crooned to me, and in the end I loved it. I hope he writes many more. Read it. You will see why." -- Dave Smith "A poet whose own craft is beyond dispute and whose gifted heart has something to tell us about our ordinary selves we had almost despaired of hearing again in the American tongue." --John D. Bernard, Poet Lore
Poetry & Barthes
Author: Calum Gardner
Publisher: Poetry and Lup
ISBN: 1786941368
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
What kinds of pleasure do we take from writing and reading? What authority has the writer over a text? What are the limits of language's ability to communicate ideas and emotions? Moreover, what are the political limitations of these questions? The work of the French cultural critic and theorist Roland Barthes (1915-80) poses these questions, and has become influential in doing so, but the precise nature of that influence is often taken for granted. This is nowhere more true than in poetry, where Barthes' concerns about pleasure and origin are assumed to be relevant, but this has seldom been closely examined. This innovative study traces the engagement with Barthes by poets writing in English, beginning in the early 1970s with one of Barthes' earliest Anglophone poet readers, Scottish poet-theorist Veronica Forrest-Thomson (194775). It goes on to examine the American poets who published in L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E and other small but influential journals of the period, and other writers who engaged with Barthes later, considering his writings' relevance to love and grief and their treatment in poetry. Finally, it surveys those writers who rejected Barthes' theory, and explores why this was. The first study to bring Barthes and poetry into such close contact, this important book illuminates both subjects with a deep contemplation of Barthes' work and a range of experimental poetries.
Publisher: Poetry and Lup
ISBN: 1786941368
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
What kinds of pleasure do we take from writing and reading? What authority has the writer over a text? What are the limits of language's ability to communicate ideas and emotions? Moreover, what are the political limitations of these questions? The work of the French cultural critic and theorist Roland Barthes (1915-80) poses these questions, and has become influential in doing so, but the precise nature of that influence is often taken for granted. This is nowhere more true than in poetry, where Barthes' concerns about pleasure and origin are assumed to be relevant, but this has seldom been closely examined. This innovative study traces the engagement with Barthes by poets writing in English, beginning in the early 1970s with one of Barthes' earliest Anglophone poet readers, Scottish poet-theorist Veronica Forrest-Thomson (194775). It goes on to examine the American poets who published in L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E and other small but influential journals of the period, and other writers who engaged with Barthes later, considering his writings' relevance to love and grief and their treatment in poetry. Finally, it surveys those writers who rejected Barthes' theory, and explores why this was. The first study to bring Barthes and poetry into such close contact, this important book illuminates both subjects with a deep contemplation of Barthes' work and a range of experimental poetries.
Humor in Modern American Poetry
Author: Rachel Trousdale
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1628920254
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Modern poetry, at least according to the current consensus, is difficult and often depressing. But as Humor in Modern American Poetry shows, modern poetry is full of humorous moments, from comic verse published in popular magazines to the absurd juxtapositions of The Cantos. The essays in this collection show that humor is as essential to the serious work of William Carlos Williams as it is to the light verse of Phyllis McGinley. For the writers in this volume, the point of humor is not to provide "comic relief,†? a brief counterpoint to the poem's more serious themes; humor is central to the poems' projects. These poets use humor to claim their own poetic authority; to re-define literary tradition; to show what audience they are writing for; to make political attacks; and, perhaps most surprisingly, to promote sympathy among their readers. The essays in this book include single-author studies, discussions of literary circles, and theories of form. Taken together, they help to begin a new conversation about modernist poetry, one that treats its lighthearted moments not as decorative but as substantive. Humor defines groups and marks social boundaries, but it also leads us to transgress those boundaries; it forges ties between the writer and the reader, blurs the line between public and private, and becomes a spur to self-awareness.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1628920254
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Modern poetry, at least according to the current consensus, is difficult and often depressing. But as Humor in Modern American Poetry shows, modern poetry is full of humorous moments, from comic verse published in popular magazines to the absurd juxtapositions of The Cantos. The essays in this collection show that humor is as essential to the serious work of William Carlos Williams as it is to the light verse of Phyllis McGinley. For the writers in this volume, the point of humor is not to provide "comic relief,†? a brief counterpoint to the poem's more serious themes; humor is central to the poems' projects. These poets use humor to claim their own poetic authority; to re-define literary tradition; to show what audience they are writing for; to make political attacks; and, perhaps most surprisingly, to promote sympathy among their readers. The essays in this book include single-author studies, discussions of literary circles, and theories of form. Taken together, they help to begin a new conversation about modernist poetry, one that treats its lighthearted moments not as decorative but as substantive. Humor defines groups and marks social boundaries, but it also leads us to transgress those boundaries; it forges ties between the writer and the reader, blurs the line between public and private, and becomes a spur to self-awareness.
American and British Poetry
Author: Harriet Semmes Alexander
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719017063
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719017063
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Expanding Authorship
Author: Peter Middleton
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
ISBN: 0826362648
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Expanding Authorship collects important essays by Peter Middleton that show the many ways in which, in a world of proliferating communications media, poetry-making is increasingly the work of agencies extending beyond that of a single, identifiable author. In four sections—Sound, Communities, Collaboration, and Complexity—Middleton demonstrates that this changing situation of poetry requires new understandings of the variations of authorship. He explores the internal divisions of lyric subjectivity, the vicissitudes of coauthorship and poetry networks, the creative role of editors and anthologists, and the ways in which the long poem can reveal the outer limits of authorship. Readers and scholars of Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, George Oppen, Frank O’Hara, Robert Duncan, Robert Creeley, Jerome Rothenberg, Susan Howe, Lyn Hejinian, Nathaniel Mackey, and Rae Armantrout will find much to learn and enjoy in this groundbreaking volume.
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
ISBN: 0826362648
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Expanding Authorship collects important essays by Peter Middleton that show the many ways in which, in a world of proliferating communications media, poetry-making is increasingly the work of agencies extending beyond that of a single, identifiable author. In four sections—Sound, Communities, Collaboration, and Complexity—Middleton demonstrates that this changing situation of poetry requires new understandings of the variations of authorship. He explores the internal divisions of lyric subjectivity, the vicissitudes of coauthorship and poetry networks, the creative role of editors and anthologists, and the ways in which the long poem can reveal the outer limits of authorship. Readers and scholars of Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, George Oppen, Frank O’Hara, Robert Duncan, Robert Creeley, Jerome Rothenberg, Susan Howe, Lyn Hejinian, Nathaniel Mackey, and Rae Armantrout will find much to learn and enjoy in this groundbreaking volume.
Stubborn Grew
Author: Henry Gould
Publisher: Henry Gould
ISBN: 0557273048
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
STUBBORN GREW is the first volume of the long poem, FORTH OF JULY.
Publisher: Henry Gould
ISBN: 0557273048
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
STUBBORN GREW is the first volume of the long poem, FORTH OF JULY.
Stubborn
Author: Tetiana Shaffer
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1460212053
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
The pieces included in this book have been inspired by various events and people in my life. In everybody's journey there are happy moments, as well as tragic or devastating. All of those are valuable as they contribute equally to making us, hopefully, stronger, better individuals. And take us on the path to our destiny, to that place that we feel we belong in. Hope you find yours. I am still searching for mine. That's what this book is about.
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1460212053
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
The pieces included in this book have been inspired by various events and people in my life. In everybody's journey there are happy moments, as well as tragic or devastating. All of those are valuable as they contribute equally to making us, hopefully, stronger, better individuals. And take us on the path to our destiny, to that place that we feel we belong in. Hope you find yours. I am still searching for mine. That's what this book is about.
Dictionary Poetics
Author: Craig Dworkin
Publisher: Fordham University Press
ISBN: 0823287998
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
The new ways of writing pioneered by the literary avant-garde invite new ways of reading commensurate with their modes of composition. Dictionary Poetics examines one of those modes: book-length poems, from Louis Zukofsky to Harryette Mullen, all structured by particular editions of specific dictionaries. By reading these poems in tandem with their source texts, Dworkin puts paid to the notion that even the most abstract and fragmentary avant-garde literature is nonsensical, meaningless, or impenetrable. When read from the right perspective, passages that at first appear to be discontinuous, irrational, or hopelessly cryptic suddenly appear logically consistent, rationally structured, and thematically coherent. Following a methodology of “critical description,” Dictionary Poetics maps the material surfaces of poems, tracing the networks of signifiers that undergird the more familiar representational schemes with which conventional readings have been traditionally concerned. In the process, this book demonstrates that new ways of reading can yield significant interpretive payoffs, open otherwise unavailable critical insights into the formal and semantic structures of a composition, and transform our understanding of literary texts at their most fundamental levels.
Publisher: Fordham University Press
ISBN: 0823287998
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
The new ways of writing pioneered by the literary avant-garde invite new ways of reading commensurate with their modes of composition. Dictionary Poetics examines one of those modes: book-length poems, from Louis Zukofsky to Harryette Mullen, all structured by particular editions of specific dictionaries. By reading these poems in tandem with their source texts, Dworkin puts paid to the notion that even the most abstract and fragmentary avant-garde literature is nonsensical, meaningless, or impenetrable. When read from the right perspective, passages that at first appear to be discontinuous, irrational, or hopelessly cryptic suddenly appear logically consistent, rationally structured, and thematically coherent. Following a methodology of “critical description,” Dictionary Poetics maps the material surfaces of poems, tracing the networks of signifiers that undergird the more familiar representational schemes with which conventional readings have been traditionally concerned. In the process, this book demonstrates that new ways of reading can yield significant interpretive payoffs, open otherwise unavailable critical insights into the formal and semantic structures of a composition, and transform our understanding of literary texts at their most fundamental levels.
The Poetry Book 2
Author: Ramsey Wake
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0359950396
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
A second trip, through my mind. A book that's different, a book that's honest. This is a book for those chasing after, seeking for, and searching through.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0359950396
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
A second trip, through my mind. A book that's different, a book that's honest. This is a book for those chasing after, seeking for, and searching through.