The body and the book : writings on poetry and sexuality / edited by Glennis Byron and Andrew J. Sneddon.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Byron, Glennis, 1955-

Sneddon, Andrew J.

Conference Name:

Poetry and Sexuality Conference (2004 : University of Stirling)

Series:

DQR studies in literature ; 42.

DQR studies in literature ; 42

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human body in literature--Congresses.

Human body in literature.

Erotic poetry--History and criticism--Congresses.

Erotic poetry.

Sex in literature--History and criticism--Congresses.

Sex in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (373 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The stimulating mix of academics and practising poets that have contributed to this volume provides an unusual and illuminating integration of critical and creative practice and a vibrantly diverse approach to questions of poetry and sexuality. Each section of essays is complemented by poems which creatively illustrate or develop the theme with which the essays critically engage. Rather than being limited to a specific genre, tradition, time or place, this collection seeks to make a virtue of contrast, comparison and juxtaposition. The collection is arranged into sections that range broadly across the thematic ground of dichotomies, traditions and revisions, microscopic and macroscopic perspectives, women and embodiment, and the notion of play and performance. Positioning eighteenth-century tinkers ballads alongside medieval Hebrew lyrics and the Blues of Gorgeous Puddin’, or making Dionysus rub shoulders with Sharon Olds and Mrs Rochester provides new perspectives on familiar material and valuable insights into more obscure work and the nature of sensual poetry as a mode of expression. As the editors suggest, the essays and poems presented collectively argue that writings about sexuality are always already about the way poets see and represent our bodies, the world and poetic language itself.

Contents:

Preliminary material / Editors The Body and the Book

INTRODUCTION: THE BODY AND THE BOOK / GLENNIS BYRON and ANDREW J. SNEDDON

THE RIVER GOD / VICKI FEAVER

SEXUAL WATER: POETRY, DIONYSUS AND THE AQUATIC APE / RICHARD GWYN

HUNGER FOR SALT / RICHARD GWYN

LOVE STORY / RICHARD GWYN

‘WHEN THE HORN FITS, BLOW IT’: MUSIC IN EROTIC POETRY / MATT BRENNAN

SLOW DANCING: BEACONSFIELD 1973 / RISHMA DUNLOP

SINGULARITY / BRON BATEMAN

JUDITH / VICKI FEAVER

POETICS OF SACRED DESIRE IN MEDIEVAL HEBREW POETRY / ANDREW VOGEL ETTIN

THE BUOYANT MILKMAN / CEDRIC BARFOOT

THE TINKER AS AN EROTIC ICON / C.C. BARFOOT

READING BETWEEN THE LINES / JOAN HEWITT

‘THE POEM UPON THE PAGE IS AS MASSIVE AS ANNE’S THIGHS’: TEXTUAL PROMISCUITY IN TED BERRIGAN’S THE SONNETS / NICK SELBY

NOTES FROM A JOURNAL / RISHMA DUNLOP

(RE)CLAIMING THE TWIN SPIRIT: QUEER PAN-INDIAN POSTCOLONIAL POETS / JAMES THOMAS STEVENS

DIALECT / STEPHANIE NORGATE

GENEALOGIES OF SEX AND LANDSCAPE IN POETRY BY ROBERT KROETSCH AND SHANE RHODES / T.L. COWAN

TICK / ERIN BELIEU

A POETICS OF ERASURE: MARK DOTY’S QUEER COAST / SARAH P. GAMBLE

FISSURES / CEDRIC BARFOOT

VIRAL SEDUCTION AND ‘PENETRATED’ BODIES IN ROB HARDIN’S POETRY / TATIANI G. RAPATZIKOU

ROPE / VICKI FEAVER

SEX AND THE BODY IN MICHAEL MCCLURE’S QUEST ‘FOR THE MAMMAL SELF’ / FRANCA BELLARSI

MARIGOLDS / VICKI FEAVER

‘RELAXED INTO INTRICATE THICKET’: RONALD JOHNSON’S GREEN POETICS / ANNA RECKIN

SPATE / CHRIS POWICI

LIKE RAIN / CHRIS POWICI

PLAY / BRON BATEMAN

THE ‘INTERFERING FLESH’ AND THE SEARCH FOR THE ‘FULL LIFE’ IN THE POETRY OF LOUISE GLUCK AND SHARON OLDS / HELEN FARISH

WAYWARD GIRL / ERIN BELIEU

ERECTIONS / ERIN BELIEU

‘BADAN DARIDA’ (THE BODY TORN): GENDER AND SEXUALITY IN PAKISTANI WOMEN’S POETRY / AMINA YAQIN

A POEM ABOUT / EVIE SHOCKLEY

SEX EDUCATION / ANNA WOODFORD

SEXUALITY, MONTROSITY AND MYTHOLOGY IN CONTEMPORARY IRISH WOMEN’S POETRY / GEROLD SEDLMAYR

MRS ROCHESTER / STEPHANIE NORGATE

AFTER MANY YEARS SHE RETURNS TO THE STAGE IN A PLAY BY TENNESSEE WILLIAMS / ANN FISHER-WIRTH

‘I SENT MY LOVE TO THE SHOWERS’: SURREALISM, LOVE AND POSTURE IN THE POETRY OF JAMES TATE / ANTHONY CALESHU

THE HIGGINS’ HONEYMOON / ANNA WOODFORD

SLIPS OF THE PUN: SIGNIFYING SEX IN THE POETRY OF JOHN ASHBERY / SOEREN HATTESEN BALLE

PROOF / JOAN HEWITT

JUDY GRAHN’S VIOLENT FEMINIST CAMP / HONNI VAN RIJSWIJK

GIRLS LIKE THAT / BRON BATEMAN

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS / Editors The Body and the Book

INDEX / Editors The Body and the Book.

Notes:

"The essays in this collection were developed from papers presented at the Poetry and Sexuality Conference at the University of Stirling, in July 2004."--P. [1].

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

94-012-0604-X

1-4356-6570-8

OCLC:

252892289

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789401206044 DOI