Holding patterns : temporary poetics in contemporary poetry /
McGuiness, Daniel Matthew.
Holding patterns : temporary poetics in contemporary poetry / Daniel McGuiness. - Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2001. - xix, 182 pages ; 24 cm
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.
079144953X 9780791449530 0791449548 9780791449547
00049650
1900-1999
American poetry--History and criticism.--20th century
Poetics.
American poetry.
Poetics.
Lyrik
Geschichte 1900-2000.
USA.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
PS325 / .M44 2001
811/.5409
Holding patterns : temporary poetics in contemporary poetry / Daniel McGuiness. - Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2001. - xix, 182 pages ; 24 cm
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.
079144953X 9780791449530 0791449548 9780791449547
00049650
1900-1999
American poetry--History and criticism.--20th century
Poetics.
American poetry.
Poetics.
Lyrik
Geschichte 1900-2000.
USA.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
PS325 / .M44 2001
811/.5409