My poetics / Maureen N. McLane.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McLane, Maureen N., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English poetry--History and criticism.

English poetry.

American poetry--History and criticism.

American poetry.

Poetics.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xxvi, 268 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago, IL : The University of Chicago Press, 2024.

Summary:

"This new collection from the acclaimed poet and critic Maureen McLane works in an innovative register of essayistic writing: conversable yet grounded in scholarship, close-readerly but far-seeing. McLane's encounters with poems and modellings of poetry illuminate her own poetics and suggest more generally all that poetics can encompass. With characteristic brilliance, McLane pursues a number of open questions: How do poems shape our condition and conditioning as sentient creatures? How do they generate modes for thinking? How does rhyme help us measure out thought? What is the relation of poetry to its surround--to the environment--and how do specific poems activate that relation? What is the difference between a poetry of "finding" rather than of inspiration? And how should we understand poetries invested in "the notational" and others committed to "projects" (as many contemporary poets are, as Wordsworth was in his Prelude)? As these questions suggest, My Poetics does not offer a brief for or against a position on poetry. Instead, its artful arrangement of readings and divagations (and even, occasionally, verse) show us a way to be with poems and poetics"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Conditional/poetics. "see you've already forgotten" ; "Preferences" ; "They Were Always Thinking"

Compositional/poetics. "Haunt" ; "Crows" ; "Weeds" ; "Trees" ; "Taking a Walk in the Woods after Having Taken a Walk in the Woods with You"

Notational/poetics. "notational/sufficiency..."

Rhyme/poetics

Choratopical/poetics. "Moonrise.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780226830384

0226830381

9780226832647

0226832643

OCLC:

1395133859