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Holding patterns : temporary poetics in contemporary poetry / Daniel McGuiness.

By: Publication details: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2001.Description: xix, 182 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 079144953X
  • 9780791449530
  • 0791449548
  • 9780791449547
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 811/.5409 21
LOC classification:
  • PS325 .M44 2001
Contents:
The static pulse -- Recounting Linda Gregg's ghosts -- Jorie Graham in stitches -- Pictura poesis: Galvin and Lowell -- James Wright, Louise Gluck: the colon -- Water everywhere: Merwin, Stafford, Dugan, Merrill -- Forche, fenton, and fighting -- Taking or leaving it: Amy Clampitt -- Holes in the web: Denis Johnson -- The long line in Jorie Graham and Charles Wright.
Review: "Holding Patterns provides a sympathetic criticism of poems, one that avoids the appliance of criticism and that self-consciously persists in close readings of texts as the directing force of its argument. Presently, contemporary literary criticism and contemporary poetry in America seem at cross-purposes. Indeed, current literary critics seldom address the poems of their contemporaries. While structuralists and other schools of critics seek terms, generalizations, and whole systems to account for and to understand poems, poets themselves repeatedly assert that each poem has its own poetic and that no system applies to their writing.Summary: This book reads poems by contemporary poets, such as Jorie Graham, Charles Wright, Denis Johnson, and Amy Clampitt, not to illuminate a theory but to shed light on the poem."--Jacket.
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Books Academic Resource Center at Levitt General Stacks (LOWER Level) PS 325 .M44 2001 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 26977

Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-174) and index.

The static pulse -- Recounting Linda Gregg's ghosts -- Jorie Graham in stitches -- Pictura poesis: Galvin and Lowell -- James Wright, Louise Gluck: the colon -- Water everywhere: Merwin, Stafford, Dugan, Merrill -- Forche, fenton, and fighting -- Taking or leaving it: Amy Clampitt -- Holes in the web: Denis Johnson -- The long line in Jorie Graham and Charles Wright.

"Holding Patterns provides a sympathetic criticism of poems, one that avoids the appliance of criticism and that self-consciously persists in close readings of texts as the directing force of its argument. Presently, contemporary literary criticism and contemporary poetry in America seem at cross-purposes. Indeed, current literary critics seldom address the poems of their contemporaries. While structuralists and other schools of critics seek terms, generalizations, and whole systems to account for and to understand poems, poets themselves repeatedly assert that each poem has its own poetic and that no system applies to their writing.

This book reads poems by contemporary poets, such as Jorie Graham, Charles Wright, Denis Johnson, and Amy Clampitt, not to illuminate a theory but to shed light on the poem."--Jacket.

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