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Book SynopsisTrade Review“Nichols’s book presents the ‘new American’ poetry as ‘a living counter tradition’ that was too quickly dismissed as utopian, naive, or simply out of touch during the ‘theory decades’ of the 1980s and 1990s. . . . The book’s subtitle refers to the dual condition of embodiment and ‘emplacedness’ that roots an individual in that ‘something larger,’ and Nichols lays out the ways in which these poets track ‘the cartography of the outside’ and enact models of experience that engage fully with ‘the practice of outside.’ The chapters on Olson and Duncan are especially strong, but Nichols sustains a sophisticated argument with surprising engagement throughout the book. Highly recommended.”--CHOICE

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Book SynopsisThe essays in Phenomenal Reading entice readers to cross accepted barriers, and highlight the work of poets who challenge language-as-usual in academia and the culture at large. Phenomenal Reading is comprised of essays that are central to how best to read poetry. This book examines individually and collectively poets widely recognised as formal and linguistic innovators.

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Book SynopsisOffers a study of poets whose work, because of its difficulty, apparent obduracy, or simple resistance to conventional explication, remains more-or-less firmly outside the canon. The focus of the essays is on non-mainstream poets - often unknown, unstudied, and neglected writers whose work bucks preconceived notions of what constitutes the avant-garde.

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Book SynopsisThe bold essays that make up Reading the Difficulties offer case studies in and strategies for reading innovative poetry. The essays collected here ask what kinds of stances allow readers to interact with verse that deliberately removes many of the comfortable cues to comprehension—poetry that is frequently nonnarrative, non-representational, and indeterminate in subject, theme, or message.

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Book SynopsisCeniza provides a dramatic rereading of Walt Whitman's poetry through the lens of 19th-century feminist culture. Walt Whitman and 19th-Century Women Reformers documents Whitman's friendships with women during the 1850s, the decade of Whitman's most creative period. The book reveals startling connections between the first three editions of Leaves of Grass and the texts generated by the women he knew during this period, many of whom were radical activists in the women's rights movement. Sherry Ceniza argues that Whitman's editions of Leaves became progressively more radically 'feminist' as he followed the women's rights movement during the 1850s and that he was influenced by what he called the 'true woman of the new aggressive type . . . woman under the new dispensation.' Ceniza documents the progression of the National Woman's Rights movement through the lives and writings of three of its leaders- Abby Hills Price, Paulina Wright Davis, and Ernestine L. Rose. By juxtaposing the texts

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Book SynopsisThis new edition of Contemporaries and Snobs, a landmark collection of essays by Laura Riding, offers a counter-history of high modernist poetics. Laura Riding's Contemporaries and Snobs (1928) was the first volume of essays to engage critically with high modernist poetics from the position of the outsider. For readers today, it offers a compelling accountby turns personal, by turns historicalof how the institutionalization of modernism denuded experimental poetry. Most importantly, Contemporaries and Snobs offers a counter-history of the idiosyncratic, of what the institution of modernism left (and leaves) behind. With Gertrude Stein as its figurehead, the book champions the noncanonical, the barbaric, and the undertheorized. Riding's nuanced defense of a poetics of the person in Contemporaries and Snobs represents a forgotten but essential first attempt to identify and foster what is now a well-defined poetic lineage that leads from Stein to the contemporary experimental avant-gar

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Book SynopsisMark Scroggins writes with wit and dash about a fascinating range of key twentieth- and twenty-first-century poets and writers. In nineteen lively and accessible essays, he persuasively argues that the innovations of modernist verse were not replaced by postmodernism, but rather those innovations continue to infuse contemporary writing and poetry with intellectual and aesthetic richness.

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Book SynopsisExamining a diverse array of texts from the Epic of Gilgamesh to Derek Walcott's Osmeros, from the Homeric epics to H.D.'s Helen in Egypt, this book develops a broadened, inclusive tradition of epic poetry, demonstrating the continuities of that tradition across dramatic discontinuities in time, place, worldview, and technology.

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Book SynopsisWith the ascent of digital culture, new forms of literature and literary production are thriving while traditional genres and media have been transformed. Word Toysis a thought-provoking volume that speculates on a range of poetic, novelistic, and programmed works that lie beyond the language of the literary and views them instead as technical objects.Trade ReviewWord Toys is an engaging and delightfully quirky overview of the philosophy and aesthetics of technicity in digital, constraint-based, and speculative poetry and its many cousins, aunts, fellow travelers, and, crucially, outliers."" - Charles Bernstein, author of Recalculating and Pitch of Poetry""Stefans’s work distinguishes itself from any run-of-the-mill scholarly study in being the product of an expansive, ultra-contemporary, kaleidoscopic intelligence, and a spontaneous, razor-sharp wit."" - Jennifer Scappettone, author of Killing the Moonlight: Modernism in Venice

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Book SynopsisJosé Kozer is one of the most influential contemporary Cuban poets working today. A key figure in the neobaroque movement within contemporary Latin American poetry, he is one of only three Cubans to win the Pablo Neruda Prize. This is a bilingual edition translated into English by Peter Boyle. In addition, Boyle provides an extensive introduction placing Kozer's work in a critical context.Trade ReviewÍndole hangs together as a collection; each poem is an exploration composed of careful deliberate details. While Kozer’s style and poetic structure are different, his poems in Índole are reminiscent of Neruda’s Odas elementales for their revelation of the miraculous and the epiphanic to be found in the every day."" - Emily A. Maguire, author of Racial Experiments in Cuban Literature and Ethnography

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Book SynopsisIn this comprehensive critical study of the American poet Marianne Moore (1887-1972) and her work, Erickson demonstrates the poet's ability to combine close observation with a worldview presentation that is at once intuitive, kaleidoscopic, and optimistic.

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Book SynopsisDrawn directly from the voices of Hong Kong during its anti-extradition protests, these poems consist of submitted testimonies and found materials - and are all anonymous from end to end, from first speech to translated curation. This collected poetic documentation of protest is thus an authorless work that brings together many voices.

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Book SynopsisFeaturing innovative research by emergent and established scholars, The Fin-de-Siècle Poem throws new light on the remarkable diversity of poetry produced at the close of the nineteenth century in England.Trade Review“This collection is a significant contribution to the scholarship on late Victorian literature. It will also allow scholars of modernist literature to reassess the modernity of the fin-de-siècle in Britain.”“This book is a masterful collection of articles that seeks to freshen critical interest in this strange transition period between the apparent softness of Victorian poetry and deliberate hardness of the modernist poetry waiting around the century’s corner.” * Rocky Mountain Review of Language & Literature *“The volume is a major contribution to the study of late-Victorian poetics. Bristow should be commended for inspiring and assembling it and Ohio should be recognised for publishing an anthology of higher quality than more established presses.” * Victorian Studies *“The Fin-de-Siécle Poem: English Literary Culture and the 1890s is one of the most important books in the field of fin-de-siécle poetry of the last twenty years. Erudite, bold, and impressive, this collection offers new ways of reading the poetry of the 1890s and demonstrates just how rewarding those new ideas can be.” * Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies *

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Book SynopsisA new historical approach to Indian English literature Mary Ellis Gibson shows that poetry, not fiction, was the dominant literary genre of Indian writing in English until 1860 and that poetry written in colonial situations can tell us as much or even more about figuration, multilingual literacies, and histories of nationalism than novels can. Gibson re-creates the historical webs of affiliation and resistance that were experienced by writers in colonial Indiawriters of British, Indian, and mixed ethnicities.Advancing new theoretical and historical paradigms for reading colonial literatures, Indian Angles makes accessible many writers heretofore neglected or virtually unknown. Gibson recovers texts by British women, by nonelite British men, and by persons who would, in the nineteenth century, have been called Eurasian. Her work traces the mutually constitutive history of English-language poets from Sir William Jones to Toru Dutt and Rabindranath Tagore. Drawing onTrade Review“This is genuinely groundbreaking work: ambitiously conceived, suggestively presented, and potentially paradigm-shifting.” -- Tricia Lootens, author of Lost Saints: Silence, Gender, and Victorian Literary Canonization“Indian Angles showcases and reflects the vibrant poetry culture of India in the nineteenth century and therein lies its contribution to the scholarship of that period.” * Victorian Studies *“Both of Gibson’s books (Indian Angles and Anglophone Poetry in Colonial India) stand as shining examples of the strategic comparativist work needed to assess the full array of literary voices in/on India during the long nineteenth century.” * English Literature in Transition, 1880–1920 *“In this thoroughly researched, well-theorized study, Gibson traces the rise of English-language poetics in India from the late 18th century to the early 20th. She acknowledges the complex, changing identity politics informing colonial affiliation, showing how poets of British, Indian, or mixed origin and affiliation were involved in the complementary project of establishing Anglo-Indian poetics…. Summing Up: Highly recommended.” * Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries *”Asserting that poetry—rather than prose fiction—dominated English-language writing in India for most of the nineteenth century, Indian Angles examines ‘the rise and expansion of English language poetics in India,‘….” * Studies in English Literature, 1500–1900 *

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Book SynopsisIndian Angles is a new historical approach to Indian English literature. It shows that poetry, not fiction, was the dominant literary genre of Indian writing in English until 1860 and re-creates the historical webs of affiliation and resistance that writers in colonial India—writers of British, Indian, and mixed ethnicities—experienced.Trade Review“This is genuinely groundbreaking work: ambitiously conceived, suggestively presented, and potentially paradigm-shifting.” -- Tricia Lootens, author of Lost Saints: Silence, Gender, and Victorian Literary Canonization“Indian Angles showcases and reflects the vibrant poetry culture of India in the nineteenth century and therein lies its contribution to the scholarship of that period.” * Victorian Studies *“Both of Gibson’s books (Indian Angles and Anglophone Poetry in Colonial India) stand as shining examples of the strategic comparativist work needed to assess the full array of literary voices in/on India during the long nineteenth century.” * English Literature in Transition, 1880–1920 *“In this thoroughly researched, well-theorized study, Gibson traces the rise of English-language poetics in India from the late 18th century to the early 20th. She acknowledges the complex, changing identity politics informing colonial affiliation, showing how poets of British, Indian, or mixed origin and affiliation were involved in the complementary project of establishing Anglo-Indian poetics…. Summing Up: Highly recommended.” * Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries *”Asserting that poetry—rather than prose fiction—dominated English-language writing in India for most of the nineteenth century, Indian Angles examines ‘the rise and expansion of English language poetics in India,‘….” * Studies in English Literature, 1500–1900 *

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Book SynopsisBritish literature of the Victorian period has always been celebrated for the quality, innovativeness, and sheer profusion of its love poetry. Every major Victorian poet produced notable poems about love. This includes not only canonical figures, such as Alfred Lord Tennyson, Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and Christina Rossetti, but also lesser-known poets whose works have only recently become widely recognized and studied, such as Augusta Webster and the many often anonymous working-class poets whose verses filled the pages of popular periodicals. Modern critics have claimed, convincingly, that love poetry is not just one strain of Victorian poetry among many; it is arguably its representative, even definitive, mode.This collection of essays reconsiders the Victorian poetry of love and, just as importantly, of intimacy—a more inclusive term that comprehends not only romance but love for family, for God, for animals, and for language itself. Together the essays

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"One of the multiple perspectives that Professor Menocal's book offers to the reader is to understand it as a genealogy of the discipline 'Romance Philosophy'. . . . Romance philology, for Menocal, is a late concretization of a century-long process of nostaglia: a nostalgia for a truly 'multicultural' world which constituted the 'Middle Ages' on the Iberian penisula and which was definitely destroyed, from 1492 on, by the Inquisition and the conquest of America as double departure towards European modernity. Menocal's genealogy of this nostalgia reveals an almost uncanny closeness between lyrical poetry and erudite discourses as the basis for academic medievalism."—Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Stanford University"This is a brilliant book, exhibiting far-ranging comparativist expertise, from Medieval Arabic, Hebrew, and Provençal lyric poetry, Dante and Petrarch, through the scholarly paladins of Romance philology and the Parry-Lordian theory of oral composition, up to modern rock music and its lyrics. . . . A pathfinding book."—Samuel G. Armistead, University of California, DavisTable of ContentsPrelude ix 1. The Horse Latitudes 1 II. Scandal 55 1. Love and Mercy 57 2. The Inventions of Philology 91 3. Chasing the Wind 142 III. Desire 185 IV. Readings and Sources 189 Works Cited 271 Index 287

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Book SynopsisIn Dying Modern, renowned literary critic Diana Fuss argues that as death has been increasingly shunted off-stage, out of the public eye, poets have taken up the task of reckoning with dying, loss, absence, and grief.Trade Review“[Fuss] approaches variations on the form of elegy with such complexity and acumen, and provides much insight into the complexities of our relation to death and the enigma of our simultaneous proximity and avoidance. These are things, after all, about which it can be almost impossible to talk.” -- Diana Arterian * Los Angeles Review of Books *“[An] elegant meditation. . . . Even Fuss admits that she is surprised that ‘her little book on elegy . . . [which] I thought was about dyig quietly evolved into a book about surviving. It is a pleasure to be surprised alongside her.” -- Sally Connolly * TLS *“This book is an erudite, beautifully written study of them. If you’re a lover of Emily Dickinson’s work or that of Randall Jarrell, Elizabeth Bishop, or Richard Wilbur, you will want to read this book. If you teach literary criticism or simply love poetry, you will want to read Fuss’s book. Superb book.” -- Hope Leman * Critical Margins *“In a luminous, beautifully considered study of the modern elegy, Fuss (Princeton) demonstrates the ways that poets have creatively imagined modes of talking about the dead...Highly recommended.” -- D. A. Henningfeld * Choice *“[Fuss] argues persuasively for the continued value of the consolatory elegy and examines “the ethical dimentions of the modern elegy.”... [A] concise, insightful, meditative book.” -- Barbara Kelly * Emily Dickinson International Society Bulletin *"An exceptionally lively, often glitteringly witty essay on the vagaries, contents, and discontents of nineteenth- and twentieth-century elegy, a genrewhose fate, in England and America, has been radically disrupted and even, sometimes, deformed by the cultural fate of modern death itself." -- Sandra Gilbert * Literature and Medicine *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Dying . . . Words 9 poetry 10 consolation 12 defiance 20 banality 24 newness 31 lastness 35 2. Reviving . . . Corpses 44 comic 46 religious 50 political 57 historical 61 literary 67 poetic 73 3. Surviving . . . Lovers 78 loving 82 waiting 86 leaving 90 refusing 95 existing 98 surviving 102 Conclusion 107 Notes 113 Bibliography 131 Index 141 Copyright Acknowledgments 149

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Book SynopsisIn Dying Modern, renowned literary critic Diana Fuss argues that as death has been increasingly shunted off-stage, out of the public eye, poets have taken up the task of reckoning with dying, loss, absence, and grief.Trade Review“[Fuss] approaches variations on the form of elegy with such complexity and acumen, and provides much insight into the complexities of our relation to death and the enigma of our simultaneous proximity and avoidance. These are things, after all, about which it can be almost impossible to talk.” -- Diana Arterian * Los Angeles Review of Books *“[An] elegant meditation. . . . Even Fuss admits that she is surprised that ‘her little book on elegy . . . [which] I thought was about dyig quietly evolved into a book about surviving. It is a pleasure to be surprised alongside her.” -- Sally Connolly * TLS *“This book is an erudite, beautifully written study of them. If you’re a lover of Emily Dickinson’s work or that of Randall Jarrell, Elizabeth Bishop, or Richard Wilbur, you will want to read this book. If you teach literary criticism or simply love poetry, you will want to read Fuss’s book. Superb book.” -- Hope Leman * Critical Margins *“In a luminous, beautifully considered study of the modern elegy, Fuss (Princeton) demonstrates the ways that poets have creatively imagined modes of talking about the dead...Highly recommended.” -- D. A. Henningfeld * Choice *“[Fuss] argues persuasively for the continued value of the consolatory elegy and examines “the ethical dimentions of the modern elegy.”... [A] concise, insightful, meditative book.” -- Barbara Kelly * Emily Dickinson International Society Bulletin *"An exceptionally lively, often glitteringly witty essay on the vagaries, contents, and discontents of nineteenth- and twentieth-century elegy, a genrewhose fate, in England and America, has been radically disrupted and even, sometimes, deformed by the cultural fate of modern death itself." -- Sandra Gilbert * Literature and Medicine *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Dying . . . Words 9 poetry 10 consolation 12 defiance 20 banality 24 newness 31 lastness 35 2. Reviving . . . Corpses 44 comic 46 religious 50 political 57 historical 61 literary 67 poetic 73 3. Surviving . . . Lovers 78 loving 82 waiting 86 leaving 90 refusing 95 existing 98 surviving 102 Conclusion 107 Notes 113 Bibliography 131 Index 141 Copyright Acknowledgments 149

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Book SynopsisIn Spill poet, independent scholar, and activist Alexis Pauline Gumbs presents a commanding collection of poetry inspired by Black feminist literary critic Hortense Spillers depicting scenes of fugitive Black women and girls seeking freedom from gendered violence and racism.Trade Review"Gumbs’s writing has luscious urgency and rhythmic drive, which will make it of interest beyond its titular audience." -- Barbara Hoffert * Library Journal *"Spill is not just a poetic collection where art meets criticism or where art is criticism. Instead, it is an intricately woven, polyvocal, ever-expansive map that details and gives rise to new and old black feminisms instructing us how to live and move with(in) these proliferating epistemologies." -- Sasha Panaram * New Black Man (In Exile) *"Inspired by the work of black feminist intellectual Hortense Spillers, Gumbs’ collection of poems appear as a series of powerful scenarios. Reading the volume is akin to being a member of a theatre audience. The fourth wall is peeled away and one is suddenly witness to heartbreaking, inspiring and insightful scenes depicting fugitive black women and girls – unsung and celebrated 'sheroes' – seeking freedom from gendered violence and racism." -- Thomasi McDonald * News & Observer *"Spill is poetry that invites the reader to imagine these poems weren't written- they was lived, they were felt, and in some deep sense, re-membered. In other words, this book happened in somebody's body, a body committed to Black Feminist ways of knowing and feeling in the world.... By embracing and applying these through the form of the parable, Spill speaks to the radical, spiritual power that belongs to those 'black women who made and broke narrative.'" -- Lara Mimosa Montes * Poetry Project Review *"Gumbs’s poetry takes up the detritus of the everyday that surrounds theory — the affective social and political worlds in which black feminist theorists write — and bends it, splits it, like a prism breaking a beam of light into a rainbow." -- Maria Velazquez * Cascadia Subduction Zone *"Gumbs seamlessly moves between historic reference, inherited memories, and a series of visions or a journal of dreams-the result is bigger than text itself. Her writing blurs the lines between past, present, and future. The book communes with ancestral knowledge while offering conjectures of what could be, reminding us that Black women have always seen what comes next, past the edges of what seemed or seems possible.... Spill is first and foremost a love offering to all Black women, but all readers who bear witness will leave its pages knowing of radical imagined possibilities and the difficult path laid before us toward elsewhere: 'our work here is not done.'" -- Zaina Alsous * Bitch *"This book is a commanding collection of scenes depicting fugitive Black women and girls seeking freedom from gendered violence and racism. Like Audre Lorde, Gumbs writes for the complexity of her vision." -- Jaki Shelton Green * NBC News (NBCBlk) *"Blending my love of Black queer feminist authors with genre bending and analytically complex poetry, Gumbs’s work inflicted pleasantly unfamiliar feelings upon me that I cannot 'claim to have invented.' Spill transformed me from a reluctant bystander of theory and poetry into a willing and enthused participant…. Alexis Pauline Gumbs’s Spill is an offering for all seeking an unpredictable and experimental journey of Black feminist artistic expression and self-discovery." -- Eden Sena Kokui Segbefia * Scalawag *"Gumbs not only speaks to the spiritual, bodily and otherworldly experience of black women, she allows readers to imagine new possibilities for poetry as a portal for understanding and deepening feminist theory." * Triangle Tribune *"This book is alive. The more I read it, the more gingerly I found myself handling its pages, despite the strength and determination of the women depicted within. . . . The scenes read as half song, half sermon (though intimately pitched), and taken as a whole create a richly textured chorus through which an exhilarating and deeply intelligent life force surges." -- Kim Adrian * The Rumpus *"[G]round-breaking. . . . Gumbs’s trilogy embraces the lyric beauty in the acts of naming, remembering, and finding one’s way back to the source. . . . Reading Gumbs’s books feels like reading an archive that will someday, who knows maybe even someday soon, usher in an era of radical transformation." -- Kathryn Nuernberger * West Branch *Table of ContentsA Note xi How She Knew 1 How She Spelled It 17 How She Left 31 How She Survived until Then 45 What She Did Not Say 61 What He Was Thinking 75 Where She Ended Up 91 The Witnesses the Wayward the Waiting 111 How We Know 125 The Way 141 Acknowledgments 151 Notes 153 Bibliography 161

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Book SynopsisThe Once and Future Muse presents the first major study of the life and work of Dominican-born bilingual American poet and translator Rhina P. Espaillat (b. 1932). Beginning with her literary celebrity as the youngest poet ever inducted into the Poetry Society of America, it traces her relative obscurity after 1952 when she married and took on family and employment responsibilities, to her triumphant return to the poetry spotlight decades later when she reclaimed her former prestige with a series of award-winning poetry collections. The authors define Espaillat's place in American letters with attention to her formalist aesthetics, Hispanic Caribbean immigrant background, poetic community building, bilingual ethos, and domestically minded woman-of-color feminism. Addressing the temporality of her oeuvreher publishing before and after the splitting of American literature into distinct ethnic segmentsthis work also highlights the demands that the social transformations of the 1960s plaTrade ReviewThere is no way to understand the great new wave of Hispanic poetry without recognizing the singular achievement of Rhina P. Espaillat. Her understated, compressed, and classical poems upend all the Anglo clichés about Latino poetry. Her lyrics are as cool as a Chet Baker solo and just as deeply felt. Uninsistent and self-assured, Espaillat is the urbane voice of the new Latino poetry."" - Dana Gioia""This comprehensive volume makes a place for Espaillat as a major poet through a range of identities: a woman, a Latina, an immigrant, a bilingual speaker, a mother, and a wife, but most particularly as a formalist. That so many groups make a claim to her speaks to her enduring appeal."" - Kim Bridgford

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Fenollosa's critical assessment of what could evolve from a blending of the East and West is perhaps more relevant today than when it was written." -Oyster Boy Review "How can we come to a new understanding of Chinese classical literature when our inherited view of it is so powerfully shaped and conditioned by a 'strong misreading,' which is a vital part of our own poetic language? This question afflicts Haun Saussy in his extraordinary introduction to a new critical edition of The Chines Written Character as a Medium for Poetry, which presents both the edited and original versions of Fenollosa's essay." -The Threepenny Review "In this superbly edited volume, Fenollosa's seminal texts and Ezra Pound's editorial markings appear together for the first time in multiple historical incarnations. The novelty and richness of the seven essays and other fragments continue to surprise and challenge the reader, even though these were written over a hundred years ago. The book offers much more than a historical document. It sheds new light on the originality of modernist poetics in its early moment: a daring effort to assert a common humanity on the basis of Chinese poetry and art at a time when racism swayed public opinion under the Chinese Exclusion Act. An important contribution to the study of modernism, American literature, comparative poetics, and cultural translation." -- -Lydia H. Liu Columbia University "This is the book that I have been waiting for since I first read Ezra Pound's version of Ernest Fenollosa's The Chinese Character as a Medium for Poetry nearly half a century ago. In that guise, Fenollosa's seminal essay was immensely influential, but it had been commandeered by Pound's powerful mind and idiosyncratic views. Now, at last, Haun Saussy and his colleagues have not only given us Fenollosa's original essay in all of its glory and tentativeness, through an ingenious format and meticulous scholarship they have succeeded in presenting this masterpiece of modern poetics as the organic, evolving experiment in cultural interfusion it was meant to be." -- -Victor H. Mair University of Pennsylvania This book-indispensable to anyone following modern poetics-reminds us that one of the four most influential modern essays on poetry (the others are T.S. Eliot's) was the product of a scholar-translator, writing in 1903, well before there was any modern poetry in English. Fenollosa's belief that the Chinese language is profoundly suited to poetry is well known, but because of Pound's editing, we had no way of knowing what Fenollosa made of the music of poetry. Least of all could we have imagined that he thought the music of this poetry was better preserved by Japanese phonics than by living Chinese speakers. Fenollosa was an idealistic advocate of Anglo-American empire fused with pan-Asian "humanity," by which he meant roughly what is covered by the term "humanities." He saw the approach of a peaceful east/west fusion, economic, military, and cultural, and sought to guide its arrival by elucidating the art of classical Chinese poetry, without any expectation that his essay would alter the ways that Anglo-American poets shape sentences. This handsome edition is a major contribution to the history of modern poetics. Until now we have known little of the intellectual, political, and religious context of this great essay on diction and syntax. Haun Saussy, Jonathan Stalling, and Lucas Klein reveal the range and growth of Fenollosa's still appealing conviction that modern poetry has to go far beyond national borders. -- -Robert von Hallberg University of Chicago "This, the first critical edition of Ernest Fenollosa's The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry, is a milestone in literary scholarship. Haun Saussy and his colleagues have produced an indispensable book-one that shows precisely how Ezra Pound, reworking Fenollosa, "invented" the China we have come to accept as central to his poetry-and to 20th century poetry in general. Saussy's theoretical-critical Introduction is nothing short of brilliant, as are the notes and archival materials. A must-own book for Modernists!" -- -Marjorie Perloff Stanford University "Scholarly edition that combines the first full publication of Fenollosa's essay as he wrote it, along with the 1919 version of the essay as altered by Ezra Pound." -The Chronicle of Higher Education "This well-edited critical edition allows us to see for the first time just what Fenollosa's original essays looked like before being submitted to Pound's editorial excisions." -- -Richard Sieburth New York UniversityTable of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Conventions xi Preface xiii Fenollosa Compounded: A Discrimination Haun Saussy 1 The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry: An Ars Poetica Ernest Fenollosa, with a Foreword and Notes by Ezra Pound (1918, 1936) 41 Appendix: With Some Notes by a Very Ignorant Man Ezra Pound 61 The Chinese Written Language as a Medium for Poetry Ernest Fenollosa (final draft , ca. 1906, with Pound's notes, 1914-16) 75 Synopsis of Lectures on Chinese and Japanese Poetry Ernest Fenollosa (1903) 105 Chinese and Japanese Poetry. Draft of Lecture I. Vol. II. Ernest Fenollosa (1903) 126 Chinese and Japanese Traits Ernest Fenollosa (1892) 144 The Coming Fusion of East and West Ernest Fenollosa (1898) 153 Chinese Ideals Ernest Fenollosa (Nov. 15th 1900) 166 [Retrospect on the Fenollosa Papers] Ezra Pound (1958) 174 Notes 177 Works Cited 209

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Book SynopsisThis collection explores torture from the array of approaches offered by the arts and humanities. It contends that these disciplines advance the discussion and eradication of torture by speaking about it in terms cognizant of the assaults on truth, memory, subjectivity, and language that the humanities theorize and that experience of torture perpetuates.Trade Review"The newspapers can tell us what causes torture, but not about what it means for our lives. This collection does just that. Beyond the apology for torture, the cries for trials, the sad litany of horrors, these authors turn to art, writing, memory and witnessing - the real means by which we can care for ourselves in the face of a disturbing past and an uncertain future. Readers travel from the Iraqi poets of Abu Ghraib to the visions of the Iranian prison of Kahrizak, from the cinematic images of the past to the playlists on your ipod, and ultimately circle back to Jean Amery's portentous reminder that after torture, we will always have to work to be at home in our world." -- -Darius Rejali Reed College "This richly variegated volume gathers together bracing and often brilliant analyses of matters one wishes were not so timely: the practices of torture and how people speak, lie, and obfuscate about them. It opens our eyes and keeps them open wide." -- -Ian Balfour York University "A rich collection of essays which should appeal to a wide audience of scholars and students from the humanities and social sciences. Due to its very accessible style it may also be of interest to the general public interested in contemporary American politics." -- -Vanessa Lemm Institute of Humanities at the Universidad Diego Portales "Given on-going attempts to legitimate and normalize torture, this rich and varied collection opens new perspectives of engagement. Its contributors disrupt smug euphemisms and bear witness to the horrifying damage torture inflicts, annihilating flesh, intimacy, trust, and memory. With readings ranging from the memoirs of Holocaust survivors to the photographs of Abu Ghraib and beyond, scholars of the law, media, literature, history, philosophy, music and the visual arts show how critical work in the arts and humanities can, and must, take part in the struggle against torture's banalization." -- -Page DuBois University of San DiegoTable of ContentsIntroduction Julie Carlson and Elisabeth Weber: For the Humanities I. America Tortures Lisa Hajjar: An Assault on Truth: A Chronology of Torture, Deception and Denial Alfred McCoy: In the Minotaur's Labyrinth: Psychological Torture, Public Forgetting, and Contested History II. Singularities of Witness Reinhold Gorling: Torture and society (translated from German by Glenn Patten) Susan Derwin: What Nazi Crimes Against Humanity Can Tell us about Torture Today Elisabeth Weber: "Torture was the essence of National Socialism". Reading Jean Amery today Sinan Antoon: What did the Corpse Want? Torture in Poetry III. Graphic Assaults, Sensory Overload John Nava: Thoughts on the making of "Signing Statement Law or An Alternate Set of Procedures" ("America tortures") and "Our Torture is Better than Their Torture" Abigail Solomon-Godeau: Torture and Representation: The Art of Detournement Stephen Eisenman: Water-boarding -- A Torture both Intimate and Sacred Hamid Dabashi: Damnatio Memoriae Viola Shafik: Rituals of Hegemonic Masculinity: Cinema, Torture and the Middle East Peter Szendy: Music and torture: the stigmata of sound and sense (translated from French by Allison Schifani and Zeke Sikelianos) Christian Gruny: The language of feeling made into a weapon. Music as an instrument of torture IV. Declassifying Writing Julie Carlson: Romantic Poet Legislators: The Ends of Torture Darieck Scott: The fine details: Torture and the Social Order Colin Dayan: Reasonable Torture, or the Sanctities (Gaza, September 2009) Richard Falk: John Yoo, the Torture Memos, and Ward Churchill: Exploring the Outer Limits of Academic Freedom

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Book SynopsisThe significance of Rainer Maria Rilke's work rests with the poet's insistence that everything needed for a better life on earth is already given to us, in the here and now. This book examines both the lesser-known and the overlooked and controversial aspects of Rilke's poetry and life.Trade Review"Ulrich Baer has given us a serious jeu d'esprit with rich results: assured entry, after so many have tried without success, into Rilke's intellectual and poetic world. Baer's primer, in both senses of the word, is a triumph of the Horatian ideal: a work full of wit and study, pleasure and instruction. It will make every reader strive to fill in the virtual letters between the letters of Baer's alphabet as doors to open into Rilke." -- -Stanley Corngold Princeton University "This book is a cornucopia with presents for the reader, one hardly knows which one to open first. It is an inspiring and rich book that draws its readers in from many surprising sides. Each essay stands on its own, offering a fresh perspective on the life and thought of one of the most celebrated German poets of the twentieth century. And yet the whole is greater than the sum of its parts: a rich portrait of Rilke that enlivens his legacy for a new generation." -- -Fritz Breithaupt Indiana University "In 'The Rilke Alphabet', which appeared in German in 2006, Baer foes where few Rilke enthusiasts have gone before, tracking echoes of Rilke's difficulties with autoeroticism into the poetry itself...Baer this makes good on his promise to 'disturb' our sense of Rilke...[equally] instead of pressing to show that Rilke was either a great poet, and basically a good person, or an artist whose work in comprised by his bigotry and political wrong-headedness, Baer provocatively, but also subtly, opens up the discussion." -Time Literary Supplement "Composed as a series of provocative and richly unfolding essays, Ulrich Baer's abecedarium occasions fresh encounters with Rilke's /uvre, not by paving an exit toward transcendent meaning, but rather, on the contrary, by marking crucial words as points of recalcitrance, which ensure that the reader never abandons an immanent, adventurous, and often surprising engagement with the texts." -- -John T. Hamilton Harvard University "Ulrich Baer's The Rilke Alphabet consists of twenty-six free standing essays, each one sending a sort of mine shaft into the densely layered strata of Rilke's poetry, prose, and letters. Each shaft hits a mother lode of rich, surprising, and at times disturbing insight not only into the poet's work and life but also into the cultural history in which they were embedded. The essays, organized by way of an idiosyncratic alphabetization of concepts, names, topics are partial in the best sense: intensely focused on particular points of access into the poet's work and life; infused with partiality, a passionate attachment to that "partial object" that is Rilke's singular voice." -- -Eric Santner University of Chicago "I know of no more sophisticated attempt to connect the life and work of Rilke for today's readers. Baer makes himself the champion of the poet's own insights, upholding them against Rilke's detractors, enthusiasts, and scholarly interpreters alike. Don't let the quirky format or the nose-thumbing fool you: this is a work of bracing purpose, which everyone who thinks they know Rilke should read. Again and again Baer frees Rilke from our ideas about him and gives him back to us afresh." -- -William Waters Boston University "Reading Baer's elegant prose is a rare pleasure. Baer's brilliant book The Rilke Alphabet captures the genius of the modern poet and Rilke's intelligence as a witness of modernity-by employing a dazzling device. Baer presents us twenty-six viewpoints on Rilke's work, twenty-six perspectives that are vital for anyone who is interested in the poet's work and in modernism as such. It reads as a real page turner." -- -Amir Eshel Stanford UniversityTable of ContentsForeword: The Whole Dictation of Existence A for Ashanti B for Buddha C for Circle D for Destiny Disrupted E is for Entrails F for Frogs G for God I for Inca J for Jew Boy K for Kafka L for Larean M for Mussolini N for Nature P for Proletarian Q for Quatsch R for Rose S for Stampa T for tower U for Un- V for Vagabond W for Worm X for Xaver Y for Y Z for Zero Works Cited 000 Index 000

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Book SynopsisEddic, Skaldic, and Beyond shines light on traditional divisions of Old NorseIcelandic poetry and awakens the reader to work that blurs these boundaries. Many of the texts and topics taken up in these enlightening essays have been difficult to categorize and have consequently been overlooked or undervalued. The boundaries between genres (Eddic and Skaldic), periods (Viking Age, medieval, early modern), or cultures (Icelandic, Scandinavian, English, Continental) may not have been as sharp in the eyes and ears of contemporary authors and audiences as they are in our own. When questions of classification are allowed to fade into the background, at least temporarily, the poetry can be appreciated on its own terms. Some of the essays in this collection present new material, while others challenge long-held assumptions. They reflect the idea that poetry with medieval characteristics continued to be produced in Iceland well past the fifteenth century, and even beyond the Protestant ReformatioTrade Review"A wide-ranging and thoughtful collection of essays which challenges our conceptions of medieval Icelandic poetry, its categorizations and its links with European literature. From early translations to late ballad reflexes of traditional material, Eddic, Skaldic, and Beyond offers fresh new readings of poems, probes into the complex nature of Icelandic poetics and unpacks the contexts and connections of literary production over a five-hundred year period. Laying down a crucial foundation for the future study of Icelandic poetry, this book inspires scholars and students to take up the unfamiliar and to rethink the familiar." -- -Carolyne Larrington St John's College "This volume, which brings together studies by eleven scholars, represents a major contribution to the study of Old Norse-Icelandic poetry, not least by following its subject well beyond the end of the middle ages proper. Any other approach, as editor Martin Chase argues in his introduction, fails to appreciate the continuity to Old Norse-Icelandic literary history over a far longer period of time, a continuity due in part to the persistence of manuscript culture in Iceland long after the introduction of print. The essays thus address topics ranging from some of the earliest poetic works extant, such as Merlinusspa, to some of latest, such as ballads and rimur (metrical romances). While many of these topics will be familiar to students of Old Norse-Icelandic - Snorri Sturluson and his Edda, for example - others, such as editor Martin Chase's own excellent contribution on Icelandic devotional poetry of the 15th and 16th century, have hitherto received little or no scholarly attention." -- -M. J. Driscoll Arnamagnaean Institute, University of Copenhagen "This wide-ranging and innovative volume offers a welcome reminder that the study of Old Norse-Icelandic poetry has much to contribute to the field of medieval studies as a whole." -SpeculumTable of ContentsIntroduction Gunnlaugr Leifsson's Uses in Merlinusspa of Twelfth-Century English Sources Additional to the De Gestis Britonum of Geoffrey of Monmouth Russell Poole The Genesis of Strengleikar: Scribes, Translators, and Place of Origin Ingvil Brugger Budal Einarr Skulason, Snorri Sturluson, and the Post-Pagan Mythological Kenning Christopher Abram Skaldskaparmal as a Tool for Composition of "Early" Skaldic Poetry Mikael Males Hattatal Stanza 12 and the Divine Legitimation of Kings Kevin J. Wanner Creating Tradition: the Use of Skaldic Verse in Old Norse Historiography Rolf Stavnem Rattus Rattus as a Beast of Battle? Stanza 12 of Ragnars Saga Rory McTurk Wit and Wisdom: the World View of the Old Norse-Icelandic Riddles and Their Relationship to Eddic Poetry Hannah Burrows Devotional Poetry at the End of the Middle Ages in Iceland Martin Chase Love and Death in the Icelandic Ballad Paul Acker Steinunn Finnsdottir and Snaekongs Rimur Shaun F. D. Hughes Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn Resisting Allegory, the leading Spenser critic of our time sums up a lifelong commitment to the theory and practice of textual interpretation. Central to this volume is an attention to the deployment of gender in conjunction with the Berger's notion of narrative complicity, all built on close attention to the text.Table of ContentsEditor’s Introduction | vii Introduction: On Texts and Countertexts | 1 Book One: The Legend of Holinesse 1. Displacing Autophobia in The Faerie Queene, Book 1: Ethics, Gender, and Oppositional Reading in the Spenserian Text | 17 Book Two: The Legend of Temperaunce 2. Narrative as Rhetoric in The Faerie Queene | 103 3. Wring Out the Old: Squeezing the Text, 1951–2001 | 143 Book Three: The Legend of Chastity 4. Resisting Translation: Britomart in Book 3 of Spenser’s Faerie Queene | 173 5. Actaeon at the Hinder Gate: The Stag Party in Spenser’s Gardens of Adonis | 211 Acknowledgments | 245 Notes | 247 Index | 289

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Book SynopsisAn extensively annotated edition of Ezra Pound’s Chinese translations in Cathay (1915) and Lustra (1916), complete with manuscript sources and the Chinese originals and Pound’s article “Chinese Poetry. Filled out by essays by Haun Saussy, Christopher Bush, and Timothy Billings, this edition resituates Cathay as a project of poetry in circulation and a work of World Literature.

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Book SynopsisA study of Yosano Akiko (1878-1942), famous post-classical woman poet of Japan. It follows Yosano from childhood to her twenties, as she freed herself from alienation and frustration and, to use her own words, ""danced out into the light"" of poetry and self-liberation.

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Book SynopsisThis is a lyrical evocation of Hawaii by a Native poet whose ancestral land has been scarred by tourism, the American military and urbanization. Grounded in the ancient grandeur and beauty of Hawaii, this collection is a love song for a beloved homeland under assault.

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Book SynopsisFew outside Japan are familiar with haiku's precursor, haikai (comic linked verse). Fewer still are aware of the role of Chinese Daoist classics in turning haikai into a literary art. This book examines the haikai poets' adaptation of Daoist classics, particularly the Zhuangzi, in the 17th century and the transformation of haikai into high poetry.

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Book SynopsisA collection of new poems by activist, leader, poet, and editor Janice Mirikitani. After being named San Francisco's second Poet Laureate in 2000, this fifth book of poems from Mirikitani was written in response to the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.

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The Poetry Demon by Jason Protass | 9780824889104 | BookCurl

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Book SynopsisThis analysis of Walcott's ""Omeros"", argues that the poem is an innovative extension of the epic tradition. The book examines Walcott's writing career and traces his development of devices, themes, techniques and a narrative style essential to epic poetry.

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Book SynopsisA study of Luis de Gongora's Soledades, the pastoral poems which have sparked controversy ever since they were first circulated at court in 1612-1614. It shows that the Soledades are in essence a court masque, an elaborate theatrical genre that combines a variety of cultural forms.

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Book SynopsisA dominant figure in American poetry for more than thirty-five years Louise Gluck has been the recipient of virtually every major poetry award and was named US poet laureate for 2003-2004. In this full-length study of her work, Daniel Morris explores how this prolific poet utilizes masks of characters from history, the Bible, and even fairy tales.Trade Review“This original, welcome, and exciting approach to Glück’s work will be of lasting importance and merit to all future study of this poet.” —Jonathan N. Barron, coeditor of Jewish American Poetry: Poems, Commentary, and Reflections

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Book SynopsisExplores the deep friendship and the critical and creative thinking between Bernadette Mayer and Clark Coolidge. This collection of letters provides insight into the poetic scenes that followed World War II while showcasing the artistic practices of Mayer and Coolidge themselves.Trade ReviewAll This Thinking reveals one of the most significant literary friendships of postwar America. The blend of intimacy, fun, and poetic reflection makes this volume not just a deeply enjoyable read but one that will also provoke new understandings of poetry as lived experience."--Ann Vickery, author of Leaving Lines of Gender: A Feminist Genealogy of Language Writing"This collection offers a revealing look behind the books of two of the most innovative and influential poets of their generation. Meticulously edited and generously presented by Stephanie Anderson and Kristen Tapson, the material here illuminates the epistolary and diaristic forms that Mayer and Coolidge were also exploring in their poetry."--Craig Dworkin, author of Radium of the Word: A Poetics of Materiality

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Book SynopsisA bilingual anthology, Fierce Voice / Voz feroz features Argentine and Uruguayan women poets published after their countries’ return to democracy in the eighties. These twenty-six poets introduced innovative, invigorating styles and provided an essential addition to the development of Latin American poetry.

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Book SynopsisThe purpose of this edition is to demonstrate the quality and interest of book VI: the intellectual curiosity of the analyst of earthquakes, volcanoes and marvellous phenomena, the rhetorical and philosophical powers of a thinker who wants to make his interpretation of Epicureanism both cogent and vivid, the deep humane compassion of the ...Table of ContentsPreface; Introduction; Parallel Latin Text and English Translation; Bibliography and abbreviations; Glossary; Index

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Book SynopsisThe purpose of this edition is to demonstrate the quality and interest of book VI: the intellectual curiosity of the analyst of earthquakes, volcanoes and marvellous phenomena, the rhetorical and philosophical powers of a thinker who wants to make his interpretation of Epicureanism both cogent and vivid, the deep humane compassion of the ...Table of ContentsPreface; Introduction; Parallel Latin Text and English Translation; Bibliography and abbreviations; Glossary; Index

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