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"A Serpentine Gesture"

Author : Elisabeth W. Joyce
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
ISBN 13 : 0826363814
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book "A Serpentine Gesture" written by Elisabeth W. Joyce and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2022 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In "A Serpentine Gesture": John Ashbery's Poetry and Phenomenology Elisabeth W. Joyce examines John Ashbery's poetry through the lens of Maurice Merleau-Ponty's conception of phenomenology. For Merleau-Ponty, perception is a process through which people reach outside of themselves for sensory information, map that experiential information against what they have previously encountered and what is culturally inculcated in them, and articulate shifts in their internal repositories through encounters with new material. Joyce argues that this process reflects Ashbery's classic statement of poetry being the "experience of experience." Through incisive close readings of Ashbery's poems, Joyce examines how he explores this process of continual reverberation between what is sensed and what is considered about that sensation and, ultimately, how he renders these perceptions into the "serpentine gesture" of language.

All This Thinking

Author : Stephanie Anderson
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
ISBN 13 : 0826366287
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book All This Thinking written by Stephanie Anderson and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2024-05-15 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All This Thinking explores the deep friendship and the critical and creative thinking between Bernadette Mayer and Clark Coolidge, focusing on an intense three-year period in their three decades of correspondence. These fiercely independent American avant-garde poets have influenced and shaped poets and poetic movements by looking for radical poetics in the everyday. This collection of letters provides insight into the poetic scenes that followed World War II while showcasing the artistic practices of Mayer and Coolidge themselves. A fascinating look at both the poets and the world surrounding them, All This Thinking will appeal to all readers interested in post–World War II poetry.

The Grand Inquisitor

Author : Donald Douglas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book The Grand Inquisitor written by Donald Douglas and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

John Ashbery and Anglo-American Exchange

Author : Oli Hazzard
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192555081
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book John Ashbery and Anglo-American Exchange written by Oli Hazzard and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-07 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1966, John Ashbery wrote: 'The English language is constantly trying to stave off invasion by the American language; it lives in a state of alert which is reflected to some degree in English poetry.' This book shows how the work of a major post-war American poet has been centrally concerned with questions of national identity and intercultural poetic exchange, by reading crucial episodes in Ashbery's oeuvre in the context of an 'other tradition' of modern English poets he himself has defined. This line runs from the editor of Ashbery's recent Collected Poems, Mark Ford, through Lee Harwood in the late 1960s, F. T. Prince in the 1950s, to 'chronologically the first and therefore most important influence' on his own work, W. H. Auden. Through detailed close readings of the poetry of Ashbery and these English poets, original interviews, and extensive archival research, a new account of Ashbery's aesthetic, and a significant re-mapping of post-war English poetry, is presented. The biographical slant of the book is highly significant, as it reads these writers' poetry and correspondence together for the first time, suggesting how major poetic innovations arose from specific social contexts, from the particulars of relations between poets, and also from a broader climate of Anglo-American exchange as registered by each poet. The book's presentation of the process of poetic influence is attentive to actual exchanges between contemporaries as evidenced in correspondence, as opposed to speculative relationships with dominant figures, and as such represents a departure from many other studies of Ashbery's work. Key themes include 'Englishness' as a national imaginary, the concept of the 'minor', reciprocal influence, and the poetry of coteries. The result is that both Ashbery himself, and the landscape of post-war English poetry, are presented in significantly new lights.

Ingenious Pleasures

Author : Drew Gardner
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
ISBN 13 : 0826364934
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book Ingenious Pleasures written by Drew Gardner and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2023-06 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By tracing the impulses of punk rock, trash film, and camp through poetry, Drew Gardner sheds light on a literary tendency that has been part of poetry's DNA all along: uncovering the poetic values hidden in unpoetic things. This unique anthology introduces readers to collage-driven poetry that embodies the sensibilities of punk, trash, and camp in a line of writing that cuts through received taxonomies of movements, influences, and styles. Moving through the twentieth century, the poetry focuses on the unexpected, the anarchic, the demotic, the absurd, the irreverent, the coarse, the rude, and the deliriously playful. It marks an alternative strain of modernism that stretches from one side of the century to the other and includes such diverse voices as Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, Gertrude Stein, William Carlos Williams, Mina Loy, Russell Atkins, Sun Ra, and Bernadette Mayer, along with many other well-known and lesser-known poets. Readers of Ingenious Pleasures will delight in experiencing poetry as they never have before.

Vodou in the Haitian Experience

Author : Celucien L. Joseph
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498508324
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book Vodou in the Haitian Experience written by Celucien L. Joseph and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2016-05-05 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One glaring lacuna in studies of Haitian Vodou is the scarcity of works exploring the connection between the religion and its main roots, traditional Yoruba religion. Discussions of Vodou very often seem to present the religion in vacuo, as a sui generis phenomenon that arose in Saint-Domingue and evolved in Haiti, with no antecedents. What is sorely needed then is more comparative studies of Haitian Vodou that would examine its connections to traditional Yoruba religion and thus illuminate certain aspects of its mythology, belief system, practices, and rituals. This book seeks to bridge these gaps. Vodou in the Haitian Experience studies comparatively the connections and relationships between Vodou and African traditional religions such as Yoruba religion and Egyptian religion. Such studies might enhance our understanding of the religion, and the connections between Africa and its Diaspora through shared religious patterns and practices. The general reader should be mindful of the transnational and transcultural perspectives of Vodou, as well as the cultural, socio-economic, and political context which gave birth to different visions and ideas of Vodou. The chapters in this collection tell a story about the dynamics of the Vodou faith and the rich ways Vodou has molded the Haitian narrative and psyche. The contributors of this book examine this constructed narrative from a multicultural voice that engages critically the discipline of ethnomusicology, drama, performance, art, anthropology, ethnography, economics, literature, intellectual history, philosophy, psychology, sociology, religion, and theology. Vodou is also studied from multiple theoretical approaches including queer, feminist theory, critical race theory, Marxism, postcolonial criticism, postmodernism, and psychoanalysis.

A Description of Acquaintance

Author : Logan Esdale
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
ISBN 13 : 082636490X
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book A Description of Acquaintance written by Logan Esdale and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2023-06-01 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gertrude Stein and Laura Riding enjoyed a fascinating if brief three-year friendship via correspondence between 1927 and 1930, and in A Description of Acquaintance, Logan Esdale and Jane Malcolm make the letters available to a larger audience for the first time. Riding and Stein are important figures in twentieth-century poetry and poetics and are considered progenitors of later movements such as L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poetry. The editors contextualize their relationship and its time period with an introduction; annotations to the letters; and supplementary materials, including pieces by Stein and Riding that exemplify their singular perspectives on modernism as well as their personal poetics. The book provides unique insight into Stein’s and Riding’s writing processes as well as the larger literary world around them, making it a must-read for anyone interested in twentieth-century poetry.

Selected Poems

Author : John Ashbery
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0140585532
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book Selected Poems written by John Ashbery and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1986-12-02 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selections from the first three decades of the poetry of John Ashbery, author of Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award The late John Ashbery was a poet whose “teasing, delicate, soulful lines made him one of the most influential figures of late-20th and early 21st century American literature.” (The New York Times) This important volume gathers work from his first ten collections of poetry, from Some Trees, which was chosen by W.H. Auden for the Yale Younger Poets Series (1956), to A Wave (1984). The 138 poems in this volume include short lyrics, haikus, prose poems, and many of Ashbery’s major long poems, including “Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror,” offering a beautiful distillation of the first thirty years of his remarkable, groundbreaking work.

Fremont

Author : Ferol Egan
Publisher : University of Nevada Press
ISBN 13 : 0874178983
Total Pages : 1137 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (741 download)

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Download or read book Fremont written by Ferol Egan and published by University of Nevada Press. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 1137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foreword by Richard Dillon. Between 1842 and 1853, John C. Fremont led five expeditions across the trans-Mississippi West. While the success of his early journeys gained him acclaim as a national hero, his later missions ended in tragedy and ultimately a court-martial. Historian Ferol Egan focuses on Fremont’s explorations, providing a vivid portrait of a courageous man in an emerging young nation.

Recovery and Transgression

Author : Kornelia Freitag
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443881899
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Recovery and Transgression written by Kornelia Freitag and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2015-09-04 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is no poetry without memory. Recovery and Transgression: Memory in American Poetry is devoted to the ways in which poetic texts shape, and are shaped by, personal, collective, and cultural memory. It looks at the manifold and often transgressive techniques through which the past is recovered and repurposed in poetry. T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land,” Susan Howe’s THIS THAT, Lyn Hejinian’s Writing Is an Aid to Memory, John Tranter’s “The Anaglyph,” Amiri Baraka’s “Somebody Blew Up America,” and Amy Clampitt’s “Nothing Stays Put” are only some of the texts discussed in this volume by a group of international poetry experts. They specifically focus on the effects of the cultural interaction, mixture, translation, and hybridization of memory of, in, and mediated by poetry. Poetic memory, as becomes strikingly clear, may be founded on the past, but has everything to do with the cultural present of poets and readers, and with their hopes and fears for the future.

Geopoetry

Author : Dale Enggass
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
ISBN 13 : 0826365590
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book Geopoetry written by Dale Enggass and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2023-12-01 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At its core, geopoetics proposes that a connection between language and geology has become a significant development in post–World War II poetics. In Geopoetry, Dale Enggass argues that certain literary works enact geologic processes, such as erosion and deposition, and thereby suggest that language itself is a geologic––and not a solely human-based––process. Elements of language extend past human control and open onto an inhuman dimension, which raises the question of how literary works approach the representation of nonhuman realms. Enggass examines the work of Clark Coolidge, Robert Smithson, Ed Dorn, Maggie O’Sullivan, Jeremy Prynne, Jen Bervin, Christian Bök, and Steve McCaffery, and he finds that while many of these authors are not traditionally connected to ecocritical writing, their innovations are central to ecocritical concerns. In treating language as a geological material, these authors interrogate the boundary between human and nonhuman realms and offer a model for a complex literary engagement with the Anthropocene.

Rivers and Mountains

Author : John Ashbery
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1480459194
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Rivers and Mountains written by John Ashbery and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-09-09 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From one of our most important modern poets comes an essential early collection, including the famous long poems “The Skaters” and “Clepsydra” When Rivers and Mountains was published in 1966, American poetry was in a state of radical redefinition, with John Ashbery recognized as one of the leading voices in the New York School of poets. Ashbery himself had just returned to America from ten years abroad working as an art critic in France, and Rivers and Mountains, his third published collection of poems, is now considered by many critics to represent a pivotal transition point in his artistic career. The poet who would gain widespread acclaim with his multiple-award-winning Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror (1975) is, in this collection, still very much engaged in the intimate, personal project of taking his poetry apart and putting it back together again, interrogating not just the act of writing but poetry itself—its purpose, its composition, its fundamental parts. Nominated for a National Book Award by a panel of judges that included W. H. Auden and James Dickey, Rivers and Mountains includes two of Ashbery’s most studied and admired works. “Clepsydra,” which takes its name from an ancient device for measuring the passage of time, echoes both the physical form and the philosophical weight of a water clock in its contemplation of the experience of time as it passes. “The Skaters,” the long poem that closes the collection, was immediately praised as a masterpiece of modern American poetry, and is the work that perhaps most clearly introduces the voice for which Ashbery is now well known and loved: generous, restless, wide-ranging, and human.

Queer Blake

Author : H. Bruder
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230277179
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Queer Blake written by H. Bruder and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-05-13 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Numerous claims have been made for a sexual Blake, from post-lapsarian pessimist to free-loving hippie. Queer Blake raises a flag for the weird, perverse, camp and gay directions of the artist's life and work. The contributors occupy diverse positions, illustrating what fresh interpretations result when heterosexuality is ditched as an ideal.

Gestures

Author : Vilém Flusser
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452941890
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)

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Download or read book Gestures written by Vilém Flusser and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2014-06-01 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout his career, the influential new media theorist Vilém Flusser kept the idea of gesture in mind: that people express their being in the world through a sweeping range of movements. He reconsiders familiar actions—from speaking and painting to smoking and telephoning—in terms of particular movement, opening a surprising new perspective on the ways we share and preserve meaning. A gesture may or may not be linked to specialized apparatus, though its form crucially affects the person who makes it. These essays, published here as a collection in English for the first time, were written over roughly a half century and reflect both an eclectic array of interests and a durable commitment to phenomenological thought. Defining gesture as “a movement of the body or of a tool attached to the body for which there is no satisfactory causal explanation,” Flusser moves around the topic from diverse points of view, angles, and distances: at times he zooms in on a modest, ordinary movement such as taking a photograph, shaving, or listening to music; at others, he pulls back to look at something as vast and varied as human “making,” embracing everything from the fashioning of simple tools to mass manufacturing. But whatever the gesture, Flusser analyzes it as the expression of a particular form of consciousness, that is, as a particular relationship between the world and the one who gestures.

Speculation, Heresy, and Gnosis in Contemporary Philosophy of Religion

Author : Joshua Ramey
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1786601427
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (866 download)

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Download or read book Speculation, Heresy, and Gnosis in Contemporary Philosophy of Religion written by Joshua Ramey and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-10-12 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many in continental philosophy of religion aver that we are in a new moment, one where the intellectually marginalized and religiously bastardized traditions of mystical, intuitive, and esoteric apprehensions must be re-articulated and appreciated anew. In an era marked by catastrophic events and atrophied cultural institutions, what seems to be needed is an affirmation of the human potential to truck with non-human or even inhuman forces and intentions, at scales of speed, slowness, or intensity that break with consensual conceptions of human limitations. The essays in this volume outline patterns of mind and mortality, existence and ecstasy, creativity and expression, political possibility and religious matrix from a position that takes quite seriously possible relations with the absolute, however enigmatic, that modernity has denied and postmodernity has obscured in the name of academic skepticism and humanist reservations. Beyond post-modernist pastiche and post-secular nostalgia, these essays explore the potencies of archaic spiritual disciplines as well as the passions driving the mystical, heretical, and Gnostic intimations riddling contemporary relations with the absolute.

Advanced Optical and Optoelectronic Fibers

Author : Lei Wei
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9819762189
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (197 download)

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Download or read book Advanced Optical and Optoelectronic Fibers written by Lei Wei and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Dream Cycles

Author : Dusty Bunker
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595010962
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book Dream Cycles written by Dusty Bunker and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000-08 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dream Cycles offers a new and exciting aproach to dream interpretation. The premise is that dreams come from an inner source full of symbolism. Using the nine basic cycles in your life, you can open your dreams and read them in the full context of the events in your life.