A field guide to the poetry of Theodore Roethke / edited by William Barillas ; foreword by Edward Hirsch.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Barillas, William David, editor.

Hirsch, Edward, writer of foreword.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Roethke, Theodore, 1908-1963--Criticism and interpretation.

Roethke, Theodore.

Roethke, Theodore, 1908-1963.

Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xvii, 352 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Athens : Swallow Press / Ohio University Press, [2021]

Summary:

"This volume is the first to reconsider Roethke's work in terms of the expanded critical approaches to literature that have emerged since his death in 1963. The forty-four contributors include highly respected literary scholars, critics, and writers, such as Peter Balakian, Camille Paglia, Jay Parini, and David Wojahn, who collectively make a case for Roethke's poetry as a complete, unified, and evolving body of work. The accessible essays employ a number of approaches, including formalism, ecocriticism, reader-response, and feminist critique to explicate the poetics, themes, and the biographical, historical, cultural, and literary contexts of Roethke's work"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Open House (1941)

1. "Open House": Prying and Potential in an Early Poem / Brandon Rushton

2. "To My Sister" / William Heyen

3. "Beneath an Undivided Sky": Environmental Disorder and Human Passivity in "Interlude" / Kristin M. Distel

4. "Sharper on the Ear": "The Light Comes Brighter" and the Subtle Phenomena of Place / Rod Phillips

5. Smart Like Auden? "Lull" and "September 1, 1939" / Patrick Gill

6. Ironic Quest in "Highway: Michigan" / Ronald Primeau

7. Movement through Space, Sound, and Time in "Night Journey" / Marcel Inhoff

The Lost Son and Other Poems (1948)

8. "Cuttings" and "Cuttings (later)": Roethke's Minute Carnivals / Michael Hinds

9. All the Small, Unlovely Things: "Root Cellar" / John Rohrkemper

10. Locating the Poet in "Weed Puller" / Lyn Coffin

11. "Orchids": Undomesticating the Greenhouse / Brooke Horvath

12. "Moss-Gathering" and Roethke's Romantic Child of Nature / Marc Malandra

13. The Storm of the Mind vs. Family and Machine in "Big Wind" / Russell Brickey

14. "Long Days under the Sloped Glass": Greenhouse Memories in "Transplanting" / Carrie Duke

15. "Frau Bauman, Frau Schmidt, and Frau Schwartze" and the Sleeping Beauty Tale / Laura Duncan

16. Meter in "My Papa's Waltz" / William Barillas

17. Syntax and Diction in "Dolor" / Luke Brekke

18. Imagery and Abstraction in "Night Crow" / Sarah Kathryn Moore

19. "The Lost Son": An Emotional Journey through the Landscapes of Loss / Borja Aguilo Obrador

20. Respite for the Lost Son: "A Field of Light" / Jeffrey Clapp

Praise to the End! (1951)

21. Homegrown Cosmologies: Animism and Elegy in "Where Knock Is Open Wide" / David Wojahn

22. "Give Way, Ye Gates" and Roethke's Praise to the End! Sequence / Peter Balakian

The Waking (1953)

23. "The Visitant" / Camille Paglia

24. "Elegy for Jane": The Nature of Grief / David Radavich

25. Dancing "The Dance": Roethke's Poetics of Appropriation / Adam Putz

26. Subduing Fear in "The Waking" / Frank J. Kearful

Words for the Wind (1958)

27. Love, Selfhood, and Sublimation in "Words for the Wind" / Andrew David King

28. Moving Circles in "I Knew a Woman" / Jay Parini

29. "First Meditation" and Roethke's Career / Don Bogen

I Am! Says the Lamb (1961)

30. A Few Thousand Words on Theodore Roethke, Children's Poetry, and Three Poems Concerning Two Turtles (One of Whom Is Named Myrtle) / Joseph T. Thomas Jr.

The Far Field (1964)

31. "The Longing": Alienation, Place, and the Desire for Home / Katharine Bubel

32. Spirit, Self, and Shorebirds: The Pacific Pastoral of "Meditation at Oyster River" / Nicholas Bradley

33. "Journey to the Interior," "The Longing," and the Search for a Definitive Text / Neal Bowers

34. Mnetha in "The Long Waters" / John J. Mckenna

35. The Ecological Vision of "The Far Field" / Bernard Quetchenbach

36. Nature Mysticism in "The Rose" / Edward Morin

37. "The Abyss": Finding the Next Life in This One / Trenton Hickman

38. "Otto": An Insight into Roethke's Poetic Vision / Jeff Vande Zande

39. "The Meadow Mouse": A Poem of Compassion / Norman Chaney

40. The Zoopoetics of "The Pike" / Aaron M. Moe

41. Roethke's Dark Society: Revisiting "In a Dark Time" / Walter Kalaidjian

42. "I Am Not Yet Undone": Navigating the Journey from Life to Death in "Infirmity" / Laura Gill

43. Symbolism and the Mystic's Way in "The Tree, the Bird" / Christopher Giroux

44. "Once More, the Round": Roethke's Last Word / William Barillas.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: A field guide to the poetry of Theodore Roethke

ISBN:

9780804012317

0804012318

OCLC:

1202731298