The electric life : essays on modern poetry / Sven Birkerts.
1989
PN1271 .B55 1989
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Title
The electric life : essays on modern poetry / Sven Birkerts.
Author
Edition
1st ed.
ISBN
0688078613
9780688078614
9780688078614
Imprint
New York : Morrow, ©1989.
Language
English
Description
459 pages ; 24 cm
Call Number
PN1271 .B55 1989
System Control No.
(OCoLC)18464444
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 443-445) and index.
Formatted Contents Note
1. Approaches. Hamann's bone: a note on the language of poetry ; The poet in an age of distraction ; When lightning strikes ; The rage of Caliban ; "Poetry" and "politics"
2. Readings. Note: close reading ; On a stanza by John Keats ; "The Whitsun weddings": a commemorative reading ; Craig Raine's "In the Kalahari Desert" ; Marianne Moore's "Poetry" ; James Wright's "Hammock": a sounding
3. The critic's work. Contemporary modes ; Robert Lowell ; Paul Blackburn ; May Swenson ; Adrienne Rich ; Frank Bidart ; John Ashbery ; Modern sequences: Michael Blumenthal, Alfred Corn, Peter Klappert ; Derek Walcott ; Melissa Green, Patricia Storace ; Chronicle: Brad Leithauser, Jorie Graham, Amy Clampitt, Christopher Jane Corkery, Alice Fulton, Baron Wormser, Christopher Middleton, Samuel Menashe, Gary Snyder, Paul Muldoon, Tony Harrison, Christopher Logue, Irish poets
4. Poets in translation. Note: translation ; Rainer Maria Rilke ; Gunnar Ekelöf/Tomas Tranströmer ; Boris Pasternak ; Czeslaw Milosz ; Zbigniew Herbert ; Adam Zagajewski ; Octavio Paz.
2. Readings. Note: close reading ; On a stanza by John Keats ; "The Whitsun weddings": a commemorative reading ; Craig Raine's "In the Kalahari Desert" ; Marianne Moore's "Poetry" ; James Wright's "Hammock": a sounding
3. The critic's work. Contemporary modes ; Robert Lowell ; Paul Blackburn ; May Swenson ; Adrienne Rich ; Frank Bidart ; John Ashbery ; Modern sequences: Michael Blumenthal, Alfred Corn, Peter Klappert ; Derek Walcott ; Melissa Green, Patricia Storace ; Chronicle: Brad Leithauser, Jorie Graham, Amy Clampitt, Christopher Jane Corkery, Alice Fulton, Baron Wormser, Christopher Middleton, Samuel Menashe, Gary Snyder, Paul Muldoon, Tony Harrison, Christopher Logue, Irish poets
4. Poets in translation. Note: translation ; Rainer Maria Rilke ; Gunnar Ekelöf/Tomas Tranströmer ; Boris Pasternak ; Czeslaw Milosz ; Zbigniew Herbert ; Adam Zagajewski ; Octavio Paz.
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