Author: Douglas MesserliPublisher: Sun and Moon Press
ISBN: 9781557132741
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
The Gertrude Stein Awards in Innovative American Poetry, 1993-1994
Author: Douglas MesserliPublisher: Sun and Moon Press
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
The Gertrude Stein Awards in Innovative American Poetry, 1994-1995
Author: Douglas MesserliPublisher: Sun and Moon Press
ISBN: 9781557132741
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Writing in Our Time
Author: Pauline ButlingPublisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN: 0889205272
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 551
Book Description
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.
Asian American Poets
Author: Guiyou HuangPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313011311
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
Even though Asian American literature is enjoying an impressive critical popularity, attention has focused primarily on longer narrative forms such as the novel. And despite the proliferation of a large number of poets of Asian descent in the 20th century, Asian American poetry remains a neglected area of study. Poetry as an elite genre has not reached the level of popularity of the novel or short story, partly due to the difficulties of reading and interpreting poetic texts. The lack of criticism on Asian American poetry speaks to the urgent need for scholarship in this area, since perhaps more than any other genre, poetry most forcefully captures the intense feelings and emotions that Asian Americans have experienced about themselves and their world. This reference book overviews the tremendous cultural contributions of Asian American poets. Included are alphabetically arranged entries on 48 American poets of Asian descent, most of whom have been active during the latter half of the 20th century. Each entry begins with a short biography, which sometimes includes information drawn from personal interviews. The entries then discuss the poet's major works and themes, including such concerns as family, racism, sexism, identity, language, and politics. A survey of the poet's critical reception follows. In many cases the existing criticism is scant, and the entries offer new readings of neglected works. The entries conclude with bibliographies of primary and secondary texts, and the volume closes with a selected, general bibliography.
Poets Talk
Author: Pauline ButlingPublisher: University of Alberta
ISBN: 9780888644312
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
This is a book that takes on the “hard questions” about the role of poets in society together with the challenges of reading “difficult” poetry. Using the relaxed format of the personal interview, Butling and Rudy open doors to some of the most challenging and important poetry of the 1990s. Robert Kroetsch talks about his dread of systems and his subversive use of sub-literary forms. Erin Mouré and Daphne Marlatt discuss the feminist trajectories in their work—how to jump circuits and activate alternative networks. Dionne Brand links her poetics to Marxist politics and Pan-African liberation movements. Annharte explains her use of humour to de-program Native people. Jeff Derksen wants to disarticulate and rearticulate linguistic and social systems, while Fred Wah emphasizes the role of poetry in changing how we see the world.
Cather Studies
Author: Susan J. RosowskiPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803264151
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Volume 3 of Cather Studies demonstrates the range of topics and approaches in contemporary discussions of Willa Cather?s work for the informed reader or the specialized student. In fourteen essays, critics and scholars examine Cather?s Catholic Progressivism, her literary relations with William Faulkner, and her place in the multicultural canon of American literature.
International Who's Who in Poetry 2004
Author: Europa PublicationsPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9781857431780
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Provides up-to-date profiles on the careers of leading and emerging poets.
An Anthology of New (American) Poets
Author: Lisa JarnotPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Poetry. Anthology. AN ANTHOLOGY OF NEW (AMERICAN) POETS features the work of thirty-five young poets who represent "a new opening of the field for American poetry [and] a turn to living figures and essential issues" --Paul Hoover. The poems are characteristically aware of the traditions they are falling out of step with, making a "'thinking' compendium of the planetary poetry scene and a boon to the ongoing struggle to keep the world safe for poetry" --Anne Waldman. The Anthology is co-edited by Lisa Jarnot, Leonard Schwartz and Chris Stroffolino, and contains work by Lee Ann Brown, Candace Kaucher, Jeffrey McDaniel, Claire Needell, Mark Nowak, Edwin Torres and many more.
After
Author: Douglas MesserliPublisher: Sun & Moon
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Beginning in the late 1970s poet, dramatist and fiction writer Douglas Messerli began casually translating poems that he had difficulty comprehending in other translations. Describing these sometimes loosely translated works as poems after the originals, he began experimenting in his own poetry with some of the poetic techniques and themes he had worked with in the poems of other languages. In 1993 he began pairing the poems he had written with the poems after other writers.
Literary Luminaries of the Berkshires
Author: Bernard A. DrewPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 162585417X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
The literary history behind this beautiful mountain region. The Massachusetts Berkshires have long been a mecca for literary greats, from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Edith Wharton to Sinclair Lewis and Joan Ackermann. The Green River in Great Barrington inspired William Cullen Bryant’s poetry. Charles Pierce Burton’s childhood hometown, Adams, became the setting for his frolicking Boys of Bob’s Hill children’s books. During an interlude in Lenox, Patricia Highsmith consulted a local undertaker for details to use in The Talented Mr. Ripley. In this book, Bernard A. Drew brings together a fascinating chronicle of some 250 wordsmiths who took inspiration from the hills and valleys of the Berkshires.