Uncertain Poetries: Selected Essays on Poets, Poetry and Poetics - Brossura

Heller, Michael

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ISBN 10: 1844710572 ISBN 13: 9781844710577

Casa editrice: Salt Pub, 2005

Riassunto

This book is concerned with the complex and uncertain nature of twentieth century poetry and poetics. Dealing with such major figures as Lorca, Rilke, Pound, Stevens, Moore, Niedecker, Duncan and Oppen and of more contemporary poets and poetry in the modernist and post-modernist lineage of Pound and Williams, the essays explore the work of these poets to see how it embodies our contemporary skepticism concerning language, representation and reality, showing that even as the poems depict or create values, they appear to be haunted by the possibility of inadequacy. Thus one of the book’s major themes concerns how contemporary poets embody uncertainties, yet manage, in virtually the same breath, in the same line or stanza, to articulate both affirmation and doubt. Questions of form and meaning are discussed in the essays covering individual poets and their poems as well as in those which deal with contemporary avant garde movements, Jewish and post-Holocaust poetry, poetics and considerations of the act of writing itself. As well, these essays try to say something about the literary environment of contemporary poetry. Poetry today is, for the most part, inflected by the American experimentalism of Walt Whitman, the “make it new” of innovators such as Pound and Williams and by infusions of European dada and surrealism into the poetic psyche. More recently, in avant-garde poetic movements, as in contemporary criticism, structuralist and post-structuralist thought have had much influence. These availabilities, this book hopes to show, have produced an unparalleled richness of poetry and thought about poetry, offering not only a reflection of our uneasiness but also an active shaping force which, through the power of poetic language, provides the hope of meaning for both history and experience.

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Recensione

For decades, Michael Heller has been making in his poetry one of the most careful explorations we have of the lyric imagination. For nearly as long, readers have relied on Conviction’s Net of Branches as their gateway into understanding the Objectivists. In 2000, Heller offered us Living Root, one of the great spiritual autobiographies in the American poetic idiom. What a pleasure to have these essays, then, collected in Uncertain Poetries, as an affirmation of the depth and seriousness of Heller’s engagement with lyric properties, and as a testament to the vibrancy of his thought and to the admirable intensity of his questioning mind. (Peter O’Leary author of Gnostic Contagion: Robert Duncan & the Poetry of Illness )

Contenuti

Acknowledgements
Preface
The Uncertainty of the Poet
Deep Song: Some Provocations
‘Translating’ Form: Pound, Rilke and the Contemporary Poem
The Narrative of Ezra Gorgon Pound or History Gothicized
Rethinking Rilke
Notes on Stevens
The True Epithalamium
The Objectified Psyche: Marianne Moore and Lorine Niedecker
Imagining Durable Works: Lorine Niedecker’s ‘Wintergreen Ridge’
Typology of the Parabolist: Some Thoughts on the Poems Of David Ignatow
William Bronk’s Poetics of Silence and Form’s Vertiginous Trace
Armand Schwerner: The Semiotician of Self Work
Towards our Mallarmé
The Poetics of Unspeakability
Diasporic Poetics
Journey to the Exterior of the Symbol
Poetry Without Credentials
Encountering Oppen
Avant-garde Propellants of the Machine Made of Words
Aspects of Poetics
Notes on Lyric Poetry or at the Muse’s Tomb
Works Cited

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Salt Pub
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1844710572
• ISBN 13: 9781844710577
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 264
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• Persona responsabile: non disponibile