Poetics and precarity / edited by Myung Mi Kim and Cristanne Miller.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kim, Myung Mi, 1957- editor.

Miller, Cristanne, editor.

Series:

The university at buffalo robert creeley lectures in poetry and poetics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poetics.

Experimental poetry.

Poetry--Social aspects.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (227 pages).

Place of Publication:

Albany, NY : SUNY Press, [2018]

Summary:

Poets and critics address the potential of language to address the increasing level of discord and precarity in the twenty-first century.At a time when wars, acts of terrorism, and ecological degradation have intensified and isolationism, misogyny, and ethnic divisiveness have been given distinctively more powerful voice in public discourse, language itself often seems to have failed. The poets and critics in this book argue that language has the potential to address this increasing level of discord and precarity, and they negotiate ways to understand poetics, or the role of the poetic, in relation to language, the body politic, the human body, breath, the bodies of the natural environment, and the body of form.Poetry makes urgent issues audible and poetics helps to theorize those issues into critical consciousness. Poetry also functions as a cry to protest late capitalist imperialism, misogyny, racism, climate change, and all the debilitating conditions of everyday life. Hubs of concern merge and diverge; precarity takes differently gendered, historied, embodied, geopolitical manifestations. The contributors articulate a poetics that renders what has not yet been crystallized as discourse into fields of force. They also acknowledge the beauties of sound, poetry, and music, and celebrate the power of community, marking the surge of energy that can occur at a particular place at a particular moment. Ultimately, Poetics and Precarity fosters further conversations that will imagine the concerns of poetics as a continuously emerging field.

Contents:

Introduction and acknowledgments

Nathaniel Mackey, breath and precarity: the inaugural Creeley lecture in poetry and poetics

Nourbese Philip, The ga(s)p

Jennifer Scappettone, precarity shared: breathing as tactic in air's uneven commons

Elizabeth Willis, On not missing it

Vincent Broqua, Here and elsewhere: Creeley's notions of community and teaching as circulation

Joan Retallack, Constructive alterities & the agonistic feminine

Adalaide Morris and Stephen Voyce, Precarity, poetry, and the practice of counter-mapping

Sarah Dowling, Supine, prone, precarious

Heriberto Yépez, The opening of the (transnational battle) field

Appendices

Poetics: (the next) 25 years, April 9-10, 2016, conference schedule

Poetics: (the next) 25 years, April 9-10, 2016, seminar topics and participants

James Maynard, Poetry in the making: a bibliography of publications by graduate students in the poetics program, 1991-2016.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781438470009

1438470002

OCLC:

1035947563