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Expressivity in modern poetry / Donald Wellman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wellman, Donald, 1944- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Poetry, Modern--20th century--History and criticism.
- Poetry, Modern.
- Modernism (Literature).
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- xxvi, 293 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Vancouver ; Madison : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, [2019]
- Summary:
- "Expressivity in Modern Poetry examines the radical address to reality in twentieth-century modernism. This legacy is foundational for contemporary poetry. New constructions of subjectivity and a turn toward language now characterize both poetic composition and critical theory"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Preface. Expressivity in modern poetry
- Radical realism
- The embodiment of dislocation: immanence
- The birth of modernism in the arts, 1895-1925
- Art and technology
- Poetics and quantum mechanics
- The composite image : how volume is generated by means of the superposition of planes
- Superposed is suspended
- How E.P. dispersed molecularly throughout the Pisan Cantos
- The intercultural text
- Maximus
- A symbolic geography of sex : Charles Olson, Elizabeth Bishop, Wallace Stevens
- Olson and subjectivity : "projective verse" and the uncertainties of sex
- Outer darkness/inner schoodic : Charles Olson and Nathaniel Mackey
- Olson and melancholy
- Field poetics and the practice of autoethnography
- Olson's prosody
- Creeley's ear (Robert Creeley and his influence)
- Tone leading vowels (Robert Duncan, John Taggart, Susan Howe, others)
- Postmodern baroque
- Immanence
- Notebooks : Césaire/Williams
- Baroque aspects of William Carlos Williams's early poetry
- Political purpose (Langston Hughes)
- A lo cubano : contextualizing Cuban identity
- José Lezama Lima and the neobarroco aesthetic
- Madre or queen of the mountain : hybridity and identity
- Jay Wright, the American baroque
- Engaging Lyn Hejinian
- Gender and the poetry of Roberto Echavarren.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Wellman, Donald, 1944- author. Expressivity in modern poetry
- ISBN:
- 9781683931188
- 1683931181
- OCLC:
- 1064971555
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