Holding Patterns
Temporary Poetics in Contemporary Poetry
Gebonden Engels 2001 9780791449530Samenvatting
Argues that if poems are to matter in American culture, they must be read rather than theorized over.
Holding Patterns provides a sympathetic criticism of poems, one that avoids the appliance of criticism and that self-consciously persists in close readings of texts as the directing force of its argument. Presently, contemporary literary criticism and contemporary poetry in America seem at cross-purposes. Indeed, current literary critics seldom address the poems of their contemporaries. While structuralists and other schools of critics seek terms, generalizations, and whole systems to account for and to understand poems, poets themselves repeatedly assert that each poem has its own poetic and that no system applies to their writing. This book reads poems by contemporary poets, such as Jorie Graham, Charles Wright, Denis Johnson, and Amy Clampitt, not to illuminate a theory but to shed light on the poem.
Specificaties
Lezersrecensies
Inhoudsopgave
Introduction
PART I. TEMPORARY THESIS
1. The Static Pulse
2. Recounting Linda Gregg's Ghosts
3. Jorie Graham in Stitches
PART II. TEMPORARY TACTICS
4. Pictura Poesis: Galvin and Lowell
5. James Wright, Louis Gluck: The Colon
6. Water Everywhere: Merwin, Stafford, Dugan, Merrill
7. Forche, Fenton, and Fighting
PART III. TEMPORARY FIGURES
8. Taking or Leaving It: Amy Clampitt
9. Holes in the Web: Denis Johnson
10. The Long Line in Jorie Graham and Charles Wright
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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