Lyric Postmodernisms

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Publisher : Counterpath Press
ISBN 13 : 1933996064
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (339 download)

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Book Synopsis Lyric Postmodernisms by : Reginald Shepherd

Download or read book Lyric Postmodernisms written by Reginald Shepherd and published by Counterpath Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. LYRIC POSTMODERNISMS gathers many well established poets whose work transcends the boundaries between traditional lyric and avant-garde experimentation. Some have been publishing since the 1960s, some have emerged more recently, but all have been influential on newer generations of American poets. Many of these poets are usually not thought of together, being considered as members of different poetic "camps," but they nonetheless participate in a common project of expanding the boundaries of what can be said and done in poetry. This anthology sheds new light on their work, creating a new constellation of contemporary American poetry. This collection provides an opportunity for readers to get to know the work of many writers who may not have received the attention their work and its impact on newer writers deserve. Unlike many anthologies that offer only snippets of writers' work, it contains substantial selections from each poet. Uniquely, it also includes aesthetic statements from each author, which can offer an entryway for readers unfamiliar with the work. Contributors: Nathaniel Mackey, Suzanne Paola, Bin Ramke, Donald Revell, Martha Ronk, Aaron Shurin, Carol Snow, Susan Stewart, Cole Swensen, Rosmarie Waldrop, Marjorie Welish, Elizabeth Willis, Bruce Beasley, Martine Bellen, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Gillian Conoley, Kathleen Fraser, Forrest Gander, C. S. Giscombe, Peter Gizzi, Brenda Hillman, Claudia Keelan, Timothy Liu.

International Postmodernism

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Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9789027234452
Total Pages : 622 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (344 download)

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Book Synopsis International Postmodernism by : Johannes Willem Bertens

Download or read book International Postmodernism written by Johannes Willem Bertens and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1997 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing more than fifty essays by major literary scholars, International Postmodernism divides into four main sections. The volume starts off with a section of eight introductory studies dealing with the subject from different points of view followed by a section that deals with postmodernism in other arts than literature, while a third section discusses renovations of narrative genres and other strategies and devices in postmodernist writing. The final and fourth section deals with the reception and processing of postmodernism in different parts of the world. Three important aspects add to the special character of International Postmodernism: The consistent distinction between postmodernity and postmodernism; equal attention to the making and diffusion of postmodernism and the workings of literature in general; and the focus on the text and the reader (i.e., the reader's knowledge, experience, interests, and competence) as crucial factors in text interpretation. This comprehensive study does not expressly focus on American postmodernism, although American interpretations of postmodernism are a major point of reference. The recognition that varying literary and cultural conditions in this world are bound to produce endless varieties of postmodernism made the editors, Hans Bertens and Douwe Fokkema, opt for the title International Postmodernism.

Lyric Shame

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Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674967445
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (749 download)

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Book Synopsis Lyric Shame by : Gillian White

Download or read book Lyric Shame written by Gillian White and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-13 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing a provocative perspective to the poetry wars that have divided practitioners and critics for decades, Gillian White argues that the sharp disagreements surrounding contemporary poetics have been shaped by “lyric shame”—an unspoken but pervasive embarrassment over what poetry is, should be, and fails to be. Favored particularly by modern American poets, lyric poetry has long been considered an expression of the writer’s innermost thoughts and feelings. But by the 1970s the “lyric I” had become persona non grata in literary circles. Poets and critics accused one another of “identifying” with lyric, which increasingly bore the stigma of egotism and political backwardness. In close readings of Elizabeth Bishop, Anne Sexton, Bernadette Mayer, James Tate, and others, White examines the social and critical dynamics by which certain poems become identified as “lyric,” arguing that the term refers less to a specific literary genre than to an abstract way of projecting subjectivity onto poems. Arguments about whether lyric poetry is deserving of praise or censure circle around what White calls “the missing lyric object”: an idealized poem that is nowhere and yet everywhere, and which is the product of reading practices that both the advocates and detractors of lyric impose on poems. Drawing on current trends in both affect and lyric theory, Lyric Shame unsettles the assumptions that inform much contemporary poetry criticism and explains why the emotional, confessional expressivity attributed to American lyric has become so controversial.

Postmodernism and the Ethical Subject

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Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 077352701X
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Book Synopsis Postmodernism and the Ethical Subject by : Barbara Gabriel

Download or read book Postmodernism and the Ethical Subject written by Barbara Gabriel and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2004 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ethical claims discussed mobilize new relations between ourselves and others as well as new cultural practices, including new forms and genres In a historical moment when the more-than-century-old shock of the modern has given way to global and trans-national shifts and cultural displacements, what new ethical demands are created? Writing across the disciplines of anthropology, literature, museology, film, and sociology, contributors to this groundbreaking volume confront a world fraught with new crises and instabilities. The ethical claims they discuss mobilize new relations between ourselves and others as well as new cultural practices, including new forms and genres. Postmodernism and the Ethical Subject points us to new ways of thinking that raise the ethical stakes of our historical moment.

Poetic License

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Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810108431
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Book Synopsis Poetic License by : Marjorie Perloff

Download or read book Poetic License written by Marjorie Perloff and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 'Poetic License, ' Perloff insists that despite the recent interest in 'opening up the canon, ' our understanding of poetry and poetics is all too often rutted in conventional notions of the lyric that shed little light on what poets and artists are actually doing today.

Stolen Moments

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Publisher : Shebooks
ISBN 13 : 1940838037
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (48 download)

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Book Synopsis Stolen Moments by : Suzanne Antonetta Paola

Download or read book Stolen Moments written by Suzanne Antonetta Paola and published by Shebooks. This book was released on 2014-01-03 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can a lipstick left behind in a handbag change a woman’s life? Can a forgotten pair of shoes? Award-winning nonfiction writer Suzanne Antonetta Paola (New York Times Notable Book for Body Toxic; American Book Award winner) turns her knack for imagining how we as humans make sense of our lives to fiction. Inspired by V.S. Naipaul’s dismissal of women’s writing as “feminine tosh,” Paola challenged herself to imagine a story that would move from an item as simple as a lipstick to profound questions of how we exist—as beings in relationship to one another, and to ourselves: “she’d grown tired of herself, and been remade, from the mouth out.” By turns funny, moving, and illuminating, the three interlocked stories of Stolen Moments present women living at a psychological edge—a therapist in a stale marriage, a saleswoman, and a maid—each of whom has something unexpected come into her life, through accident or theft. The stories demonstrate how three very different people can have more in common than they know, and the way our smallest choices lead to the cascades of events that make us who we are.

Nobody's Business

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Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801469570
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)

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Book Synopsis Nobody's Business by : Brian M. Reed

Download or read book Nobody's Business written by Brian M. Reed and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2013-08-15 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the turn of the new millennium English-language verse has entered a new historical phase, but explanations vary as to what has actually happened and why. What might constitute a viable avant-garde poetics in the aftermath of such momentous developments as 9/11, globalization, and the financial crisis? Much of this discussion has taken place in ephemeral venues such as blogs, e-zines, public lectures, and conferences. Nobody's Business is the first book to treat the emergence of Flarf and Conceptual Poetry in a serious way. In his engaging account, Brian M. Reed argues that these movements must be understood in relation to the proliferation of digital communications technologies and their integration into the corporate workplace.Writers such as Andrea Brady, Craig Dworkin, Kenneth Goldsmith, Danny Snelson, and Rachel Zolf specifically target for criticism the institutions, skill sets, and values that make possible the smooth functioning of a postindustrial, globalized economy. Authorship comes in for particular scrutiny: how does writing a poem differ in any meaningful way from other forms of "content providing"? While often adept at using new technologies, these writers nonetheless choose to explore anachronism, ineptitude, and error as aesthetic and political strategies. The results can appear derivative, tedious, or vulgar; they can also be stirring, compelling, and even sublime. As Reed sees it, this new generation of writers is carrying on the Duchampian practice of generating antiart that both challenges prevalent definitions or art and calls into question the legitimacy of the institutions that define it.

From Modernism to Postmodernism

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139448595
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Book Synopsis From Modernism to Postmodernism by : Jennifer Ashton

Download or read book From Modernism to Postmodernism written by Jennifer Ashton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-01-05 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this overview of twentieth-century American poetry, Jennifer Ashton examines the relationship between modernist and postmodernist American poetics. Ashton moves between the iconic figures of American modernism - Stein, Williams, Pound - and developments in contemporary American poetry to show how contemporary poetics, specially the school known as language poetry, have attempted to redefine the modernist legacy. She explores the complex currents of poetic and intellectual interest that connect contemporary poets with their modernist forebears. The works of poets such as Gertrude Stein and John Ashbery are explained and analysed in detail. This major account of the key themes in twentieth-century poetry and poetics develops important ways to read both modernist and postmodernist poetry through their similarities as well as their differences. It will be of interest to all working in American literature, to modernists, and to scholars of twentieth-century poetry.

Foxlogic, Fireweed

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Publisher : Backwaters Press
ISBN 13 : 1496222695
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)

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Book Synopsis Foxlogic, Fireweed by : Jennifer K. Sweeney

Download or read book Foxlogic, Fireweed written by Jennifer K. Sweeney and published by Backwaters Press. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Backwaters Prize in Poetry, Jennifer K. Sweeney’s Foxlogic, Fireweed follows a lyrical sequence of five physical and emotional terrains—floodplain, coast, desert, suburbia, and mesa—braiding themes of nature, domesticity, isolation, and human relationships. These are poems of the earth’s wild heart, its searing mysteries, its hollows, and its species, poems of the complex domestic space, of before and after motherhood, gun terror, the election, of dislocation and home, and of how we circle toward and away from our centers. Sweeney is not afraid to take up the domestic and inner lives of women, a nuanced relationship with the natural world that feels female or even maternal, or a duty to keeping alive poetry’s big questions of transcendence, revelation, awe, and deep presence in the ordinary.

A History of Twentieth-Century American Women's Poetry

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316495558
Total Pages : 731 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (164 download)

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Book Synopsis A History of Twentieth-Century American Women's Poetry by : Linda A. Kinnahan

Download or read book A History of Twentieth-Century American Women's Poetry written by Linda A. Kinnahan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-20 with total page 731 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A History of Twentieth-Century American Women's Poetry explores the genealogy of modern American verse by women from the early twentieth century to the millennium. Beginning with an extensive introduction that charts important theoretical contributions to the field, this History includes wide-ranging essays that illuminate the legacy of American women poets. Organized thematically, these essays survey the multilayered verse of such diverse poets as Edna St Vincent Millay, Marianne Moore, Anne Sexton, Adrienne Rich, and Audre Lorde. Written by a host of leading scholars, this History also devotes special attention to the lasting significance of feminist literary criticism. This book is of pivotal importance to the development of women's poetry in America and will serve as an invaluable reference for specialists and students alike.

Writing Into the Future

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Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817360492
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)

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Book Synopsis Writing Into the Future by : Alan Golding

Download or read book Writing Into the Future written by Alan Golding and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2022-09-13 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dial, The little review, and the dialogics of the modernist "new" -- The new American poetry revisisted again -- New, newer, and the newest American poetries -- Poetry anthologies and the idea of the "mainstream" -- Serial form in George Oppen and Robert Creeley -- Place, space, and "new syntax" in Oppen's Seascape: needle's eye -- Macro, micro, material : Rachel Blau DuPlessis's Drafts and the post-objectivist serial poem -- Drafts and fragments : Rachel Blau DuPlessis's (counter-)Poudian project -- "Drawings with words" : Susan Howe's visual feminist poetics -- Authority, marginality, England, and Ireland in the work of Susan Howe -- Bruce Andrews, writing, and "poetry" -- "What about all this writing?" : Williams and alternative poetics -- Language writing, digital poetics, and transitional materialities.

Black Nature

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Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820334316
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Book Synopsis Black Nature by : Camille T. Dungy

Download or read book Black Nature written by Camille T. Dungy and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Black Nature is the first anthology to focus on nature writing by African American poets, a genre that until now has not commonly been counted as one in which African American poets have participated. Black poets have a long tradition of incorporating treatments of the natural world into their work, but it is often read as political, historical, or protest poetry--anything but nature poetry. This is particularly true when the definition of what constitutes nature writing is limited to work about the pastoral or the wild. Camille T. Dungy has selected 180 poems from 93 poets that provide unique perspectives on American social and literary history to broaden our concept of nature poetry and African American poetics. This collection features major writers such as Phillis Wheatley, Rita Dove, Yusef Komunyakaa, Gwendolyn Brooks, Sterling Brown, Robert Hayden, Wanda Coleman, Natasha Trethewey, and Melvin B. Tolson as well as newer talents such as Douglas Kearney, Major Jackson, and Janice Harrington. Included are poets writing out of slavery, Reconstruction, the Harlem Renaissance, the Black Arts Movement, and late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century African American poetic movements. Black Nature brings to the fore a neglected and vital means of considering poetry by African Americans and nature-related poetry as a whole. A Friends Fund Publication.

Post-Romantic Aesthetics in Contemporary British and Irish Poetry

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000397750
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Book Synopsis Post-Romantic Aesthetics in Contemporary British and Irish Poetry by : Stefanie John

Download or read book Post-Romantic Aesthetics in Contemporary British and Irish Poetry written by Stefanie John and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-06-24 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book demonstrates the legacies of Romanticism which animate the poetry and poetics of Eavan Boland, Gillian Clarke, John Burnside, and Kathleen Jamie. It argues that the English Romantic tradition serves as a source of inspiration and critical contention for these Irish, Welsh, and Scottish poets, and it relates this engagement to wider concerns with gender, nation, and nature which have shaped contemporary poetry in Britain and Ireland. Covering a substantial number of works from the 1980s to the 2010s, the book discusses how Boland and Clarke, as women poets from the Republic of Ireland and Wales, react to a male-dominated and Anglocentric lyric tradition and thus rework notions of the Romantic. It examines how Burnside and Jamie challenge, adopt, and revise Romantic aesthetics of nature and environment. The book is the first in-depth study to read Boland, Clarke, Burnside, and Jamie as post-Romantics. By disentangling the aesthetic and critical conceptions of Romanticism which inform their inheritance, it develops an innovative approach to the understanding of contemporary poetry and literary influence.

Phenomenal Reading

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Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817356940
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)

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Book Synopsis Phenomenal Reading by : Brian M. Reed

Download or read book Phenomenal Reading written by Brian M. Reed and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2012-04-04 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book examines individually and collectively poets widely recognized as formal and linguistic innovators. Why do their words appear in unconventional orders? What end do these arrangements serve? Why are they striking? Brian Reed focuses on poetic form as a persistent puzzle, utilizing historical fact and the views of other critics to clarify how particular literary works are constructed and how those constructions lead to specific effects." -- Back cover.

State of the Union

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Publisher : Wave Books
ISBN 13 : 1933517336
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (335 download)

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Book Synopsis State of the Union by : Joshua Beckman

Download or read book State of the Union written by Joshua Beckman and published by Wave Books. This book was released on 2008-09-01 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A political anthology from the front lines of American poetics.

The Poem Is You

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Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674972872
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (749 download)

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Book Synopsis The Poem Is You by : Stephanie Burt

Download or read book The Poem Is You written by Stephanie Burt and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-12 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary American poetry has plenty to offer new readers, and plenty more for those who already follow it. Yet its difficulty—and sheer variety—leaves many readers puzzled or overwhelmed. The critic, scholar, and poet Stephanie Burt sets out to help. Beginning in the early 1980s, where critical consensus ends, Burt canvasses American poetry of the past four decades, from the headline-making urgency of Claudia Rankine’s Citizen to the stark pathos of Louise Glück, the limitless energy of Juan Felipe Herrera, and the erotic provocations of D. A. Powell. The Poem Is You: Sixty Contemporary American Poems and How to Read Them is a guide to the diverse magnificences of American poetry today. It presents a wide range of poems selected by Burt for this volume, each accompanied by an original essay explaining how a given poem works, why it matters, and how the poem speaks to other parts of art and culture. Included here are some classroom classics (by Ashbery, Komunyakaa, Hass), less famous poems by very famous poets (Glück, Kay Ryan), and poems by prizewinning poets near the start of their careers (such as Brandon Som), and by others who are not—or not yet—well known. The Poem Is You will appeal to poets, teachers, and students, but it is intended especially for readers who want to learn more about contemporary American poetry but who have not known where or how to start. It describes what American poets have fashioned for one another, and what they can give us today.

Orphic Bend

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Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 081736014X
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)

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Book Synopsis Orphic Bend by : Robert L. Zamsky

Download or read book Orphic Bend written by Robert L. Zamsky and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2021-08-10 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Opera, poetics, and the fate of humanism : Ezra Pound and Charles Bernstein -- "Measure, then, is my testament" : Robert Creeley and the poet's music -- Orpheus in the garden : John Taggart -- Eurydice takes the mic : improvisation and ensemble in the work of Tracie Morris -- "Orphic bend" : music and meaning in the work of Nathaniel Mackey.