The Material Of Poetry
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The Material Of Poetry
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Author : Gerald L. Bruns
language : en
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Release Date : 2005
The Material Of Poetry written by Gerald L. Bruns and has been published by University of Georgia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Poetry categories.
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.
Bodies Of Poems
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Author : Lennart Nyberg
language : en
Publisher: Peter Lang
Release Date : 2009
Bodies Of Poems written by Lennart Nyberg and has been published by Peter Lang this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Art categories.
How is meaning created by a poem? Through the invisible ideas and thoughts conveyed by the text or through the physical presence of book, paper and print? In Bodies of Poems the author argues that the material properties of poetic texts are meaningful in their own right but often ignored and made invisible in poetry criticism. Through a number of examples ranging from the introduction of print technology in the fifteenth century to late twentieth-century poets such as Adrienne Rich and Seamus Heaney, this study examines the ways in which poems are products of the contemporary state of print technology, legal and social definitions of authors and texts, and culturally and historically determined assumptions about the self and the body. Although indebted to recent innovative work in textual criticism, this book is a pioneering attempt to place the study of poetic texts as material artefacts in a sustained historical narrative.
The Poet S Tomb
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Author : Martin Corless-Smith
language : en
Publisher: Parlor Press LLC
Release Date : 2020-04-23
The Poet S Tomb written by Martin Corless-Smith and has been published by Parlor Press LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-23 with Literary Criticism categories.
Every poem an epitaph, every poem a ticket to ride, from Sappho’s “bittersweet” eroticism to the “wild civility” of Robert Herrick. Martin Corless-Smith is a poet, painter, and translator of canonical poems, and each of these vocations is on view in this memorable defense of poetry as he reads from Virgil to Notley in sight of the impossible blue of Bellini’s Doge Leonardo Loredan and Piranesi’s otherworldly Pyramid of Cestius while contemplating the paradoxes of the finite body of the poet dreaming immortal poetry. —Keith Tuma Querying the embodiment of poetry, Corless-Smith begins in the body of the poet—living and/or dead—and passes from there through the body of the reader in order to argue the mutual construction of the body of a poem as a shared body and a new commons, which, like all things vital to survival—air, water, hope—must be maintained as open and available to all. These succinct, elegant essays perform this maintenance and, in the process, return us to all poetry charged with the energy and insight necessary to continue that maintenance ourselves. —Cole Swensen
The Making Of Poetry
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Author : Arthur H. R. Fairchild
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2017-05-03
The Making Of Poetry written by Arthur H. R. Fairchild and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-03 with categories.
A critical study of the nature and value of poetry whose aim is to give the student and reader a consistent view of this form of writing. Contents: Can poetry be defined? The material of poetry; The making of poetry: how the poet first deals with his material; The making of poetry: the combination of images; The making of poetry: versifying; The nature of poetry; The need and value of poetry; Some forms of poetry examined. Notes. ****** "The value of the book, indeed, resides. not in the lucid exposition of the mysteries of poetry. but in the thoughtful frame of mind that it induces in the reader. Too rarely do we 'think' about poetry." --Dial. "[Many] pages are given over, often to platitudes, but at times to a pleasant vagueness. Withal, this book is sure to impress the reader with the author's unaffected love of poetry and with his wide reading." --Nation. "Well worthwhile study on 'The making of poetry.' --N. Y. Times. "Dealing with poetry both in its primitive and its modern forms. it is richly suggestive to teachers and students, and likely to lead to a larger and more intelligent reading of the poets." --Outlook.
Ghostlier Demarcations
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Author : Michael Davidson
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2023-11-10
Ghostlier Demarcations written by Michael Davidson and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-10 with Poetry categories.
Why do modern poets quote from dictionaries in their poems? How has the tape recorder changed the poet's voice? What has shopping to do with Gertrude Stein's aesthetics? These and other questions form the core of Ghostlier Demarcations, a study of modern poetry as a material medium. One of today's most respected critics of twentieth-century poetry and poetics, Michael Davidson argues that literary materiality has been dominated by an ideology of modernism, based on the ideal of the autonomous work of art, which has hindered our ability to read poetry as a socially critical medium. By focusing on writing as a palimpsest involving numerous layers of materiality—from the holograph manuscript to the printed book—Davidson exposes modern poetry's engagement with larger historical forces. The palimpsest that results is less a poem than an arrested stage of writing in whose layers can be discerned ghostly traces of other texts. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1997.
Poems In Process Classic Reprint
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Author : Phyllis Bartlett
language : en
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2017-10-21
Poems In Process Classic Reprint written by Phyllis Bartlett and has been published by Forgotten Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-21 with categories.
Excerpt from Poems in Process The material for this study of poetic composition and revision is vast and various. Of first importance are the worksheets or early drafts of poems, cherished by libraries. The most exciting of these from the major poets of the past have been frequently examined by scholars, either for special studies or for definitive texts of the poet's work, and these schol arly findings are drawn on freely. Many manuscripts have been scruti nized anew, some reported on for the first time. There are also the letters and diaries of poets and their relatives and friends, which often reveal the exact circumstances of a poem's composition as well as the habitual practices of the poet as writer. Since not all of such personal accounts are reliable, their probable veracity has always been carefully weighed in the hope of presenting the maximum of genuine evidence. There is the work of biographers who have used this type of material to give valid sketches of the poet at work. Finally, if a man has lived through various editions of his poems, the several texts will show his manner of revising - should he, after original publication, still care to revise. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Poetry Media And The Material Body
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Author : Ashley Miller
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2018-08-09
Poetry Media And The Material Body written by Ashley Miller and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-09 with Literary Criticism categories.
A study of the tradition in nineteenth-century thought that imagines the body as one of the reproductive media of poetry.
A Perhaps Line
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Author : Gary D. Swaim
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2014-11-20
A Perhaps Line written by Gary D. Swaim and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-20 with Religion categories.
While it is impossible to know how or when a unified view of the self and the universe became divided in our Western view of things, Gary D. Swaim's poems contend that our world is not dualistic. Should we look to Saint Paul or Saint Augustine as responsible for the world's heart rift--even occasional heart drift? More likely, the "fault" lies in our habit of seeing things as either physical or spiritual, material or immaterial, for the comfort of categorizing our ideas and experiences into pockets of thought in hopes of exercising a degree of imagined control over the complexities of life. Although this collection is divided into halves, the line separating these sections is porous, or at least permeable . . . Indeed, A Perhaps Line questions whether that line exists at all, with single words, stanzas, images, and even entire poems moving back and forth between the material and the spiritual. Swaim's poems are rough around their edges from passing back and forth through "a perhaps line," uncertain of their places, arbitrarily placed here or there--all partaking of the material and the spiritual in a collection that merges our divided understanding of ourselves and the universe.
A Poetry Of Things
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Author : Mary E. Barnard
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 2022
A Poetry Of Things written by Mary E. Barnard and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022 with History categories.
A Poetry of Things considers how cultural objects were used by poets in the years around 1600 - a time of social and economic crisis, but also of remarkable artistic and literary production.
The Virtues Of Poetry
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Author : James Longenbach
language : en
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Release Date : 2013-03-05
The Virtues Of Poetry written by James Longenbach and has been published by Graywolf Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-05 with Literary Criticism categories.
An illuminating look at the many forms of poetry's essential excellence by James Longenbach, a writer with "an ear as subtle and assured as any American poet now writing" (John Koethe) "This book proposes some of the virtues to which the next poem might aspire: boldness, change, compression, dilation, doubt, excess, inevitability, intimacy, otherness, particularity, restraint, shyness, surprise, and worldliness. The word ‘virtue' came to English from Latin, via Old French, and while it has acquired a moral valence, the word in its earliest uses gestured toward a magical or transcendental power, a power that might be embodied by any particular substance or act. With vices I am not concerned. Unlike the short-term history of taste, which is fueled by reprimand or correction, the history of art moves from achievement to achievement. Contemporary embodiments of poetry's virtues abound, and only our devotion to a long history of excellence allows us to recognize them." –from James Longenbach's preface The Virtues of Poetry is a resplendent and ultimately moving work of twelve interconnected essays, each of which describes the way in which a particular excellence is enacted in poetry. Longenbach closely reads poems by Shakespeare, Donne, Blake, Keats, Dickinson, Yeats, Pound, Bishop, and Ashbery (among others), sometimes exploring the ways in which these writers transmuted the material of their lives into art, and always emphasizing that the notions of excellence we derive from art are fluid, never fixed. Provocative, funny, and astute, The Virtues of Poetry is indispensable for readers, teachers, and writers. Longenbach reminds us that poetry delivers meaning in exacting ways, and that it is through its precision that we experience this art's lasting virtues.