Phenomenal reading : essays on modern and contemporary poetics / Brian M. Reed.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Reed, Brian M.

Series:

Modern & Contemporary Poetics

Modern and contemporary poetics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poetics.

Literature, Modern--20th century--History and criticism.

Literature, Modern.

Literature, Modern--21st century--History and criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (280 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The essays in Phenomenal Reading entice readers to cross accepted barriers, and highlight the work of poets who challenge language-as-usual in academia and the culture at large. Phenomenal Reading is comprised of essays that are central to how best to read poetry. This book examines individually and collectively poets widely recognized as formal and linguistic innovators. Why do their words appear in unconventional orders? What end do these arrangements serve? Why are they striking? Brian Reed focuses on poetic form as a persistent puzzle

Contents:

Preface: how Reed wrote certain of his essays

1. Political reading

Carl Sandburg and the problem of bad political poetry

Tom Raworth and poetic intuition

2. Sight and sound

Ezra Pound's utopia of the eye

Gertrude Stein speaks

The baseness of Robert Grenier's visual poetics

Caroline Bergvall begins again

3. Writers reading

Hart Crane and the challenge of Akron

Robert Duncan and Gertrude Stein

Reginald Shepherd at Hart Crane's grave

4. Associative reading

Rosmarie Waldrop renews collage

John Ashbery after all these years

The abc's of substitutional poetics.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-242) and index.

ISBN:

0-8173-8601-7

OCLC:

794663714