Radical tenderness : poetry in times of catastrophe / Andrea Brady.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brady, Andrea, 1974- author.

Series:

Cambridge elements. Elements in poetry and poetics

Cambridge Elements. Elements in Poetry and Poetics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

American poetry.

Disasters in literature.

Poetics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (98 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, England : Cambridge University Press, [2024]

Summary:

"Radical Tenderness argues for the importance of poetry in negotiating political and social catastrophes, through a focus on the unusual intimacies of committed writing. It reflects the perspectives provided by intimate poetries on the shared political emergencies of poverty, war, ecological catastrophe, racism, and illness"-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

Cover

Title page

Copyright page

Radical Tenderness: Poetry in Times of Catastrophe

Contents

Introduction

1 Caleb Femi

Resisting Individuality

Defensible Space: Architecture and Authority in North Peckham

The Concrete Body

Interior Life

2 Bhanu Kapil

Hospitality and Hostility

Butchery and Passivity

True Stories and Counterfeits

Intrusive Intimacies

3 Juliana Spahr

Taking It: Settler Poetics

Faltering over Pronouns

Devotion to the Tradition of Eros

Contamination and Doomed Connections

Lyric and Loss

4 Anne Boyer

Anti-Capitalist Poetics

Poor Life

Just Say No

The Dream That Revolution Can Live

Sickness as Knowledge

Epilogue

Acknowledgements

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 19 Apr 2024).

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781009393416

1009393413

9781009393454

1009393456

9781009393430

100939343X