Format:
xii, 280 Seiten
ISBN:
9780231202756
,
9780231202749
Series Statement:
Literature now
Content:
A slave and worshiper at love's doorstep : Mir Taqi Mir -- Censorship and the role of the poet in the work of Ana Blandiana -- At home or nowhere : A.K. Ramanujan -- Your thorns are the best part of you : Marianne Moore and Stevie Smith -- Eunice de Souza and Indian speech -- Emmental freedom : Czeslaw Milosz -- There must be something to say : on verse-sound -- Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Penn Warren and Cleanth Brooks, communication, and other people -- Ted Hughes, Keith Sagar, and the poetics of letter-prose -- Rae Armantrout's lonely dream -- Dreaming the world : Vinod Kumar Shukla's extraordinary sentences -- Srinivas Rayaprol and Gāmini Salgādo -- You can't close your eyes for a sec : Arvind Krishna Mehrotra -- Thom Gunn's shadows hard as board -- Galway Kinnell, trying to become winged -- A.R. Ammons and "the political (read, human) world" -- Dawn Lundy Martin : post-lyric and the already known -- Vahni Capildeo : I am not speaking of or as myself or for any/one.
Content:
"As Vidyan Ravinthiran sees it, the way poetry is written about falls into approaches either defined by academic scholarship or by literary journalism. The former too often distances the reader from the poem and the critic's personality is expunged. In literary journalism, the critic is front-and-center but discussions of the poems and poets are introductory and often risk-averse in their approach. In both spheres, entrenched practices and positions of privilege limit the perspectives and approaches to poetry. As Ravinthiran points out, these patterns are particularly acute in those moments when poetry from the Global South is discussed, if it is considered at all, where the focus is too often on familiar conceptions of identity rather than the formal, aesthetic, qualities or other thematic concerns. In this book, noted poet, critic, and scholar, Ravinthiran stage a series of encounters with poems (and theories about poetry) as a way of rethinking what evaluative, biographical, aesthetically attentive criticism on poetry might otherwise become-and who, crucially, it might otherwise reach and serve. However, much more than just a commentary on how poetry is read, the book also offers close, imaginative readings of a rich variety of poets. The book's essays focus on writers from both the West and the Global South, who are familiar and not-so-familiar to Western readers, including, Gwendolyn Brooks, Adrienne Rich, Czeslaw Milosz, Thom Gunn, Galway Kinnel, Rae Armantout, A. K. Ramanujan, Eunice de Souza, Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, and Mir Taqi Mir"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780231554695
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Ravinthiran, Vidyan Worlds woven together New York : Columbia University Press, 2022
Language:
English
Keywords:
Lyrik
;
Poetik
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