The poet resigns : poetry in a difficult world / Robert Archambeau.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Archambeau, Robert Thomas, 1968-

Series:

Akron series in contemporary poetics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--20th century--History and criticism.

American poetry.

American poetry--21st century--History and criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (336 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Akron, Ohio : University of Akron Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The essays of The Poet Resigns: Poetry in a Difficult World set out to survey not only the state of contemporary poetry, but also the poet's relationship to politics, society, and literary criticism. In addition to pursuing these topics, The Poet Resigns peers into the role of the critic and the manifesto, the nature of wit, the poetics of play, and the persistence of modernism, while providing detailed readings of poets as diverse as Harryette Mullen and Yvor Winters, George Oppen and Robert Pinsky, Pablo Neruda and C.S. Giscombe. Behind it all is a sense of poetry, not just as an academic area of study, but also as a lived experience and a way of understanding. Few books of poetry criticism show such range"yet the core questions remain clear: what is this thing we love and call poetry, and what is its consequence in the world?

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Copyright""; ""Dedication""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Contents""; ""Instead of an Introduction: Letter of Resignation""; ""Situations of Poetry""; ""The Discursive Situation of Poetry""; ""Poetry and Politics, or: Why are the Poets on the Left?""; ""The Aesthetic Anxiety: Avant-Garde Poetics and the Idea of Politics""; ""Public Faces in Private Places: Notes on Cambridge Poetry""; ""Negative Legislators: Exhibiting the Post-Avant""; ""When Poets Dream of Power""; ""Can Poems Communicate?""; ""The Poet in the University: Charles Bernstein�s Academic Anxiety""

""The State of the Art""""To Criticize the Poetry Critic""; ""Seeing the New Criticism Again""; ""Poetry / Not Poetry""; ""The Death of the Critic""; ""Marginality and Manifesto""; ""Poets and Poetry""; ""A Portrait of Reginald Shepherd as Philoctetes""; ""True Wit, False Wit: Harryette Mullen in the Eighteenth Century""; ""Emancipation of the Dissonance: The Poetry of C. S. Giscombe""; ""In the Haze of Pondered Vision: Yvor Winters as Poet""; ""The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Poetry""; ""Power and the Poetics of Play""; ""Neruda�s Earth, Heidegger�s Earth""

""The Decadent of Moyvane""""Modernist Current: On Michael Anania""; ""Laforgue / Bolaño: The Poet as Bohemian""; ""Oppen / Rimbaud: The Poet as Quitter""; ""Remembering Robert Kroetsch""; ""Myself I Sing""; ""Nothing in this Life""; ""My Laureates""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 12, 2014).

ISBN:

1-4619-5691-9

1-937378-45-4

OCLC:

859686909