99 Poets/1999

99 Poets/1999 PDF Author: Charles Bernstein
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Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 294

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"99 Poets/1999: An International Poetics Symposium presents the work of ninety-nine poets in dialogue with one another across the divides of language, nation, and temperament. Grounded in resonances and affiliations among the contributing poets, this issue is as striking for its interwoven themes, concerns, and forms as for its immediacy and intimicy. Indeed, this issue is the result of years of informal exchange through translations, readings, and visits. ... Starting in 1997, with the help of several coeditors, I asked poets from around the world to respond to a series of interrelated questions concerning national, multinational, international, global, regional, or local contexts for their work as poets or for the poety they most value."--Introduction

99 Poets/1999

99 Poets/1999 PDF Author: Charles Bernstein
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 294

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"99 Poets/1999: An International Poetics Symposium presents the work of ninety-nine poets in dialogue with one another across the divides of language, nation, and temperament. Grounded in resonances and affiliations among the contributing poets, this issue is as striking for its interwoven themes, concerns, and forms as for its immediacy and intimicy. Indeed, this issue is the result of years of informal exchange through translations, readings, and visits. ... Starting in 1997, with the help of several coeditors, I asked poets from around the world to respond to a series of interrelated questions concerning national, multinational, international, global, regional, or local contexts for their work as poets or for the poety they most value."--Introduction

The Material of Poetry

The Material of Poetry PDF Author: Gerald L. Bruns
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 9780820327013
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 176

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Poetry is philosophically interesting, writes Gerald L. Bruns, "when it is innovative not just in its practices, but, before everything else, in its poetics (that is, in its concepts or theories of itself)." In The Material of Poetry, Bruns considers the possibility that anything, under certain conditions, may be made to count as a poem. By spelling out such enabling conditions he gives us an engaging overview of some of the kinds of contemporary poetry that challenge our notions of what language is: sound poetry, visual or concrete poetry, and "found" poetry. Poetry's sense and meaning can hide in the spaces in which it is written and read, says Bruns, and so he urges us to become anthropologists, to go afield in poetry's social, historical, and cultural settings. From that perspective, Bruns draws on works by such varied poets as Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, Steve McCaffery, and Francis Ponge to argue for three seemingly competing points. First, poetry is made of language but is not a use of it. That is, poetry is made of words but not of what we use words to produce: concepts, narratives, expressions of feeling, and so on. Second, as the nine sound poems on the CD included with the book demonstrate, poetry is not necessarily made of words but is rooted in, and in fact already fully formed by, sounds the human body can produce. Finally, poetry belongs to the world alongside ordinary things; it cannot be confined to some aesthetic, neutral, or disengaged dimension of human culture. Poetry without frontiers, unmoored from expectations, and sometimes even written in imaginary languages: Bruns shows us why, for the sake of all poetry, we should embrace its anarchic, vitalizing ways.

The Bloomsbury Anthology of Contemporary Jewish American Poetry

The Bloomsbury Anthology of Contemporary Jewish American Poetry PDF Author: Deborah Ager
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1441136029
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 392

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With works by over 100 poets, The Bloomsbury Anthology of Contemporary Jewish American Poetry celebrates contemporary writers, born after World War II , who write about Jewish themes. This anthology brings together poets whose writings offer fascinating insight into Jewish cultural and religious topics and Jewish identity. Featuring established poets as well as representatives of the next generation of Jewish voices, it includes poems by Ellen Bass, Charles Bernstein, Carol V. Davis, Edward Hirsch, Jane Hirshfield, David Lehman, Jacqueline Osherow, Ira Sadoff, Philip Schultz, Alan Shapiro, Jane Shore, Judith Skillman, Melissa Stein, Matthew Zapruder, and many others.

Writing in Our Time

Writing in Our Time PDF Author: Pauline Butling
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN: 0889205272
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 312

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Process poetics is about radical poetry — poetry that challenges dominant world views, values, and aesthetic practices with its use of unconventional punctuation, interrupted syntax, variable subject positions, repetition, fragmentation, and disjunction. To trace the aesthetically and politically radical poetries in English Canada since the 1960s, Pauline Butling and Susan Rudy begin with the “upstart” poets published in Vancouver’s TISH: A Poetry Newsletter, and follow the trajectory of process poetics in its national and international manifestations through the 1980s and ’90s. The poetics explored include the works of Nicole Brossard, Daphne Martlatt, bpNichol, George Bowering, Roy Kiyooka, and Frank Davey in the 1960s and ’70s. For the 1980-2000 period, the authors include essays on Jeff Derksen, Clare Harris, Erin Mour, and Lisa Robertson. They also look at books by older authors published after 1979, including Robin Blaser, Robert Kroetsch, and Fred Wah. A historiography of the radical poets, and a roster of the little magazines, small press publishers, literary festivals, and other such sites that have sustained poetic experimentation, provide context.

Republics of Reality

Republics of Reality PDF Author: Charles Bernstein
Publisher: Green Integer
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 382

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At once the most paradoxically controversial and popular, accessible and most difficult of the L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poets, Bernstein is also the writer of that group who strove early on to experiment with the extremes of its newly minted methods. Whether highlighting the synaesthesis of the word in its isolation or in the plain phrase as it operates in daily life to convey our most banal thoughts, this collection of long out-of-print chapbooks -- none of these poems have appeared in ally of Bernstein's many breakthrough volumes, such as Islets/Irritations (1983) or Dark City (1994) -- provides a unique overview of his career, and adds to the range of his impressive canon of major and minor works. The first poem from the 1976 volume Parsing titled "Sentences", will surprise anyone expecting text-over-speech, as it is practically a litany of anxieties, attitudes and stuttering intensities. This attention to spoken language makes such dense works as "Poem" (from 1978's Shade) both welcoming and discomforting, expressionistically cinematic but not without its moments of eye-wink satiric narrative. In the short poems collected in The Absent Father in "Dumbo" and Residual Rubbernecking, Bernstein takes the project far from the austere fragments of the early works and deep into a purposely "purple" and unbeautiful lyricism: "Such mortal slurp to strain this sprawl went droopy/Gadzooks it seems would bend these slopes in girth/None trailing failed to hear the ship looks loopey/Who's seen it nailed uptight right at its berth". Bernstein always manages to find the furthest reaches of any norms of "good taste" (be it mainstream or avant-garde), creating a poetics that reveals the social codes hidingbehind all of poetry's tropes and forms. Though many of the later poems here seem unfocused and minor compared to the fabulous and ambitious early chapbooks, the volume as a whole presents as many promises as it does relevant problems, as many beauties as it does strange new imaginings.

American Women Poets in the 21st Century

American Women Poets in the 21st Century PDF Author: Claudia Rankine
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
ISBN: 9780819565471
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 460

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A thought-provoking mix of poetry, creative manifesto and criticism. Poetry in America is flourishing in this new millennium and asking serious questions of itself: Is writing marked by gender and if so, how? What does it mean to be experimental? How can lyric forms be authentic? This volume builds on the energetic tensions inherent in these questions, focusing on ten major American women poets whose collective work shows an incredible range of poetic practice. Each section of the book is devoted to a single poet and contains new poems; a brief "statement of poetics" by the poet herself in which she explores the forces — personal, aesthetic, political — informing her creative work; a critical essay on the poet's work; a biographical statement; and a bibliography listing works by and about the poet. Underscoring the dynamic give and take between poets and the culture at large, this anthology is indispensable for anyone interested in poetry, gender and the creative process. CONTRIBUTORS: Rae Armantrout, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Lucie Brock Broido, Jorie Graham, Barbara Guest, Lyn Hejinian, Brenda Hillman, Susan Howe, Ann Lauterbach, Harryette Mullen.

A Companion to Eighteenth-Century Poetry

A Companion to Eighteenth-Century Poetry PDF Author: Christine Gerrard
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118702298
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 624

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A COMPANION TO & EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY POETRY A COMPANION TO & EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY POETRY Edited by Christine Gerrard This wide-ranging Companion reflects the dramatic transformation that has taken place in the study of eighteenth-century poetry over the past two decades. New essays by leading scholars in the field address an expanded poetic canon that now incorporates verse by many women poets and other formerly marginalized poetic voices. The volume engages with topical critical debates such as the production and consumption of literary texts, the constructions of femininity, sentiment and sensibility, enthusiasm, politics and aesthetics, and the growth of imperialism. The Companion opens with a section on contexts, considering eighteenth-century poetry’s relationships with such topics as party politics, religion, science, the visual arts, and the literary marketplace. A series of close readings of specific poems follows, ranging from familiar texts such as Pope’s The Rape of the Lock to slightly less well-known works such as Swift’s “Stella” poems and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s Town Eclogues. Essays on forms and genres, and a series of more provocative contributions on significant themes and debates, complete the volume. The Companion gives readers a thorough grounding in both the background and the substance of eighteenth-century poetry, and is designed to be used alongside David Fairer and Christine Gerrard’s Eighteenth-Century Poetry: An Annotated Anthology (3rd edition, 2014).

Index of American Periodical Verse 1999

Index of American Periodical Verse 1999 PDF Author: Rafael Català
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 9780810841093
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 688

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The Index of American Periodical Verse is an important resource for contemporary poetry research, serving as a continuing record of trends in the output of famous and lesser-known poets and the cultural influences they represent. The index includes contemporary poets from the United States, Canada, and the Caribbean, as well as other lands, cultures, and times. Continuing the tradition of this helpful reference source, this twenty-ninth annual volume of the Index was produced with the cooperation of 291 participating periodicals; nearly 7,000 entries (6,977) for individual poets and translators and more than 20,000 entries (20,410) for individual poems. A separate index provides access by title or first line.

Ten South African Poets

Ten South African Poets PDF Author: Adam Schwartzman
Publisher: Carcanet Press
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Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 248

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Brings together selections of ten outstanding South African poets, to show, in writing drawn from more than four decades, from very different cultures and traditions, a vital and diverse literature. Representing a vision of a pluralistic Africanism the anthology takes the poetry of the region away from the dichotomy which apartheid promoted.

Hafiz and the Religion of Love in Classical Persian Poetry

Hafiz and the Religion of Love in Classical Persian Poetry PDF Author: Leonard Lewisohn
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0857710362
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 362

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I.B.Tauris in association with the Iran Heritage Foundation