Social poesis : the poetry of Rachel Zolf / selected with an introduction by Heather Milne and an afterword by Rachel Zolf.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Milne, Heather, 1973- author.

Contributor:

Zolf, Rachel, 1968- writer of foreword.

Series:

Laurier Poetry ; 30

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (99 pages)

Place of Publication:

Waterloo, Ontario : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2019.

Summary:

Social Poesis introduces readers to the work of one of Canada's most exciting and challenging poets. Through selections from across Rachel Zolf's poetic oeuvre, this book foregrounds the philosophical, ethical, and political questions that inform Zolf's poetry. Selections range from early poems in which Zolf explores transhistorical trauma and queer subjectivity to more recent writings that examine militarism, settler colonialism, and other forms of state-sanctioned violence. Zolf's poetry enacts what she calls a "social poesis"; she is attuned to questions of ethical responsibility and the role, and limitations, of poetry as a tool for ethical thinking, political engagement, accountability, and bearing witness. Heather Milne's introduction examines Zolf's compositional strategies, tracing the evolution of Zolf's writing from an autobiographical poetics, in which Zolf as subject/speaker is locatable, toward a poetics that moves beyond the self to address political and ethical relations among subjects of geopolitics and settler colonialism. In her afterword, Zolf focuses on her most recent work, in which poems are composed almost entirely from archival sources and enact a kind of collective assemblage of enunciation.

Contents:

Front Matter

Table of Contents

Foreword

Biographical Note

Introduction

from Her absence, this wanderer

from Masque

from Human Resources

from The Tolerance Project

from Neighbour Procedure

from Janeys Arcadia

Afterword

Acknowledgements

Books in the Laurier Poetry Series

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781771124126

1771124121

9781771124133

177112413X

OCLC:

1080210837