The Odeon : essays on poetry / Daniel Tobin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tobin, Daniel, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poetry.

poetry.

Genre:

Critiques litteraires.

Essays.

Literary criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (261 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2025.

Summary:

"The Odeon, a new volume of essays by the celebrated poet and critic Daniel Tobin, takes its title from the classical Greek and Roman buildings designed for the presentation of musical and poetic compositions. Organized around the question of "sensibility"--with its various social, philosophical, and aesthetic connotations--the collection presents a sequence of related essays exploring both resonances and dissonances in the traditions of modern and contemporary poetry. Although Tobin surveys a broad spectrum of works--ranging from John Donne and Emily Dickinson to writers from the twenty-first century such as Mark Doty, Louise Glück, and Carl Phillips--his emphasis remains on details of poetic practice, technique, metaphysical outlook, and artistic aspiration. What most informs these essays is Tobin's own practice as a poet, his own sensibility, which is at once eclectic and yet very much calibrated to matters of what one theologian termed "ultimate concern." The Odeon offers an incisive foray into the state of the art of poetry in our time"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

PREFACE

The Odeon, or, Singing and Sensibility

John Donne and the Odeon

What's Donne Isn't Done: On Ideas of Order and the Machinery of Poetry

Ancient Salt, American Grains: On the Poet as Scavenger

One Arc Synoptic: Plot, Poetry, and the Span of Consciousness

Forms after Forms: On Metamorphosis and Improvisation

"Hello, I Must Be Going": The Poetry of Farewell

Writing for the Dead

Lamentation, Poetry, and the Double Life

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

NOTES

WORKS CITED

INDEX.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0807185183

9780807185186

0807185175

9780807185179

OCLC:

1528069761