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Clemson University Digital Press Harold Norse: Poet Maverick, Gay Laureate

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Clemson University Digital Press New Materialism and Late Modernist Poetry

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Arc Humanities Press A New Companion to Critical Thinking on Chaucer

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Arc Humanities Press Beowulf—A Poem

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Arc Humanities Press Reading Fu Poetry: From the Han to Song Dynasties

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University of Delaware Press Black Celebrity: Contemporary Representations of

Book SynopsisBlack Celebrity examines representations of postbellum black athletes and artist-entertainers by novelists Caryl Phillips and Jeffery Renard Allen and poets Kevin Young, Frank X Walker, Adrian Matejka, and Tyehimba Jess. Inhabiting the perspectives of boxer Jack Johnson and musicians “Blind Tom” Wiggins and Sissieretta Jones, along with several others, these writers retrain readers’ attention away from athletes’ and entertainers’ overdetermined bodies and toward their complex inner lives. Phillips, Allen, Young, Walker, Matejka, and Jess especially plumb the emotional archive of desire, anxiety, pain, and defiance engendered by the racial hypervisibility and depersonalization that has long characterized black stardom. In the process, these novelists and poets and, in turn, the present book revise understandings of black celebrity history while evincing the through-lines between the postbellum era and our own time. Table of ContentsIntroduction: Portraits of Black Fame, or The Past as Blueprint for the Present Chapter 1: “my black body / thrown free”: The Legacy of Jack Johnson in Kevin Young’s To Repel Ghosts: The Remix from the Original Masters Chapter 2: “More of a man than you”: The Many Faces of Jack Johnson in Adrian Matejka’s The Big Smoke Chapter 3: “The Sting of Race and Sport”: Revivifying Isaac Burns Murphy in Frank X Walker’s Isaac Murphy: I Dedicate This Ride Chapter 4: “the overwhelming evidence of his artistry”: Wiping Away the Minstrel Mask in Caryl Phillips’s Dancing in the Dark Chapter 5: “Blind Tom, Musical Prodigy of the Age”: Unrecoverability in Jeffery Renard Allen’s Song of the Shank Chapter 6: “Let this belting be our / unbinding”: Reconceptualizing Black Entertainment in Tyehimba Jess’s Olio Bibliography Endnotes Index

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Bucknell University Press,U.S. Cultivating Peace: The Virgilian Georgic in

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Book SynopsisDuring the decades following the English civil wars, British poets seeking to make sense of lingering political instabilities turned to Virgil’s Georgics. This ancient poem betrays deep ambivalences about war, political power, and empire, and such poets as Andrew Marvell, John Dryden, and Anne Finch found in these attitudes valuable ways of responding to the uncertainties of their own time. Composed during a period of brutal conflict in Rome, Virgil’s agricultural poem distrusts easy stability, urging its readers to understand that lasting peace must be sowed, tended, reaped, and replanted, year after year. Like the ancient poet, who famously depicted a farmer’s scythe suddenly recast as a sword, the poets discussed in Cultivating Peace imagine states of peace and war to be fundamentally and materially linked. In distinct ways, they dismantle the dream of the golden age renewed, proposing instead that peace must be sustained by constant labor. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.Trade Review"Cultivating Peace is an extremely smart examination of what might be called 'the georgic mode' in English verse of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, starting with Virgil … It is a significant piece of scholarship that should be of interest both to classicists and to scholars of English poetry in the long eighteenth century. The writing is clear and jargon free, the readings perceptive; we not only get a much richer, more complex, sense of how the georgic mode worked than we had before, but we also see it in historical context." -- Cedric D. Reverand II * University of Wyoming *"Melissa Schoenberger's important, compelling study provides an innovative re-evaluation of English georgic's development in the early modern period and its relationship to the laborious art of peace-making. Schoenberger identifies how poets from Marvell to Smart respond to the political aspects of Virgil's Georgics, particularly with regard to the farmer/statesman's ceaseless toil against disorder and chaos and his failure to secure a stable future. In doing so, this study convincingly presents peace-making as a fundamentally georgic act and advances our understanding not only of Virgil himself but also his wider cultural legacy." -- Ian Calvert * University of Bristol *"A well written and cogently argued book that should be welcomed for its refreshingly new reading of the Virgilian georgic mode in English poetry of the long eighteenth century. Its strengths are many, not least, its juxtaposition of close reading with a keen sensitivity to social and political contexts." * The Review of English Studies *"The narrative voice will often alight delicately on its objects only for them to morph into new ones almost as soon as they are observed. This, too, is a lovely imitative echo of Virgil’s light didactic touch....Rich and evocative." * Marvell Studies *"Cultivating Peace is a fascinating book about Virgil's didactic agricultural poem The Georgics and the poetry and political thinking that it inspired in late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century England. Melissa Schoenberger recovers, from Virgil's poem, a distinctively georgic understanding of peace as mutable and contingent." * Eighteenth Century Studies *"Cultivating Peace is an extremely smart examination of what might be called 'the georgic mode' in English verse of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, starting with Virgil … It is a significant piece of scholarship that should be of interest both to classicists and to scholars of English poetry in the long eighteenth century. The writing is clear and jargon free, the readings perceptive; we not only get a much richer, more complex, sense of how the georgic mode worked than we had before, but we also see it in historical context." -- Cedric D. Reverand II * University of Wyoming *"Melissa Schoenberger's important, compelling study provides an innovative re-evaluation of English georgic's development in the early modern period and its relationship to the laborious art of peace-making. Schoenberger identifies how poets from Marvell to Smart respond to the political aspects of Virgil's Georgics, particularly with regard to the farmer/statesman's ceaseless toil against disorder and chaos and his failure to secure a stable future. In doing so, this study convincingly presents peace-making as a fundamentally georgic act and advances our understanding not only of Virgil himself but also his wider cultural legacy." -- Ian Calvert * University of Bristol *"A well written and cogently argued book that should be welcomed for its refreshingly new reading of the Virgilian georgic mode in English poetry of the long eighteenth century. Its strengths are many, not least, its juxtaposition of close reading with a keen sensitivity to social and political contexts." * The Review of English Studies *"The narrative voice will often alight delicately on its objects only for them to morph into new ones almost as soon as they are observed. This, too, is a lovely imitative echo of Virgil’s light didactic touch....Rich and evocative." * Marvell Studies *"Cultivating Peace is a fascinating book about Virgil's didactic agricultural poem The Georgics and the poetry and political thinking that it inspired in late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century England. Melissa Schoenberger recovers, from Virgil's poem, a distinctively georgic understanding of peace as mutable and contingent." * Eighteenth Century Studies *Table of Contents Introduction: The Arts of Peace Chapter 1: Mutability: Cycles of War and Peace On Mutability: Virgil’s First Lesson Before Marvell: Georgic Mutability in England The Trap of War and The Map of Paradise: Marvell’s Vision of Peace Chapter 2: Translation: Virgil and Dryden in 1697 The English Virgil Dryden’s Georgics: “Nor When the War is Over, Is it Peace” From Peace to War: The Aeneis Chapter 3: Contingency: The Georgic Poetry of Anne Finch A Virgilian Retreat Finch and the Force of Fable Chapter 4: Imitation: The Georgics before and after 1713 John Philips and the Inmate Orchat From Didactic to Descriptive After Thomson: Christopher Smart, The Hop-Garden, and the End of Georgic Peace Conclusion: “At Their Hours of Preparation” Bibliography Index

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Bucknell University Press,U.S. The Poetics of Epiphany in the Spanish Lyric of

Book SynopsisDrawing on the poetry of four major voices in the Spanish lyric of today, Judith Nantell explores the epistemic works of Luis Muñoz, Abraham Gragera, Josep M. Rodríguez, and Ada Salas, arguing that, for them, the poem is the fundamental means of exploring the nature of both knowledge and poetry. In this first interpretive analysis of the epistemic nature of their poetry, Nantell innovatively engages these poets, each of whom has contributed one of their own poems along with a previously unpublished explication of their chosen poem. Each also provides an original biographical sketch to support Nantell’s development of a poetics of epiphany. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press. Trade Review"Judith Nantell's The Poetics of Epiphany in the Spanish Lyric of Today is a fantastic addition to scholarship on Spanish contemporary poetry. This is an incredibly original and multifaceted work, and the combination of scholarly analyses with contributions from the authors themselves and their poetry makes this a highly original and perceptive piece of work." -- Diana Cullell * editor, Spanish Contemporary Poetry: An Anthology *“Judith Nantell’s The Poetics of Epiphany in the Spanish Lyric of Today is a significant work of criticism that brings to light current lyric innovations in Spain, with particular attention to the epistemic strain in the work of four very recent poets: Luis Muñoz, Abraham Gragera, Josep M. Rodríguez, and Ada Salas. Nantell’s primary argument is that these four share a vision of their art as a process and a movement towards a state of acute realization and insight into their chosen art and, indeed, into the nature of reality. Nantell shows the four to be authors of a “universalist” lyric poetry, written in Spanish across and beyond borders, and fueled – but not limited by -- literary canon, tradition, and artistic influence. This study exhibits a wealth of insights and original observations, bolstered and fortified by the critical armature reflective of the depth and extension of Judith Nantell’s research.” -- Sylvia Sherno * co-editor, Contemporary Spanish Poetry: The Word and the World *"The book is a major contribution to an understanding of the contemporary Spanish lyric, apt for a general audience, specialists in contemporary Spanish literature, and as a model for introducing new poets in graduate classes. In a sense, the study is itself epiphanic. One reads the delimited analyses of just four poets and then somewhat surprisingly realizes that the study offers a clearly defined road map leading into the core of the contemporary Spanish lyric." * Bulletin of Spanish Studies *"The Poetics of Epiphany in the Spanish Lyric of Today offers an enthusiastic celebration of the work of four contemporary Spanish poets....Those in search of an introduction to the work of four poets that highlights each poet’s voice through the inclusion and discussion of biographical statements, poetics, poems, and auto-analyses, though, will undoubtedly find this book to be a valuable resource and point of entry into the work of these four poets." * Studies in Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century Literature *"Judith Nantell's The Poetics of Epiphany in the Spanish Lyric of Today is a fantastic addition to scholarship on Spanish contemporary poetry. This is an incredibly original and multifaceted work, and the combination of scholarly analyses with contributions from the authors themselves and their poetry makes this a highly original and perceptive piece of work." -- Diana Cullell * editor, Spanish Contemporary Poetry: An Anthology *“Judith Nantell’s The Poetics of Epiphany in the Spanish Lyric of Today is a significant work of criticism that brings to light current lyric innovations in Spain, with particular attention to the epistemic strain in the work of four very recent poets: Luis Muñoz, Abraham Gragera, Josep M. Rodríguez, and Ada Salas. Nantell’s primary argument is that these four share a vision of their art as a process and a movement towards a state of acute realization and insight into their chosen art and, indeed, into the nature of reality. Nantell shows the four to be authors of a “universalist” lyric poetry, written in Spanish across and beyond borders, and fueled – but not limited by -- literary canon, tradition, and artistic influence. This study exhibits a wealth of insights and original observations, bolstered and fortified by the critical armature reflective of the depth and extension of Judith Nantell’s research.” -- Sylvia Sherno * co-editor, Contemporary Spanish Poetry: The Word and the World *"The book is a major contribution to an understanding of the contemporary Spanish lyric, apt for a general audience, specialists in contemporary Spanish literature, and as a model for introducing new poets in graduate classes. In a sense, the study is itself epiphanic. One reads the delimited analyses of just four poets and then somewhat surprisingly realizes that the study offers a clearly defined road map leading into the core of the contemporary Spanish lyric." * Bulletin of Spanish Studies *"The Poetics of Epiphany in the Spanish Lyric of Today offers an enthusiastic celebration of the work of four contemporary Spanish poets....Those in search of an introduction to the work of four poets that highlights each poet’s voice through the inclusion and discussion of biographical statements, poetics, poems, and auto-analyses, though, will undoubtedly find this book to be a valuable resource and point of entry into the work of these four poets." * Studies in Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century Literature *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations ... vi Note on Translations ... vii Introduction ... 1 1 Luis Muñoz: The Instant ... 26 Complete Poems by Muñoz ... 75 2 Abraham Gragera: The Word ... 93 Complete Poems by Gragera ... 148 3 Josep M. Rodríguez: The Images ... 184 Complete Poems by Rodríguez ... 262 4 Ada Salas: Poetry and Poetics ... 302 Complete Poems by Salas ... 368 Afterword ... 389 Acknowledgments ... 395 Notes ... 398 Works Cited ... 399 Index ... 415

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Bucknell University Press,U.S. The Poetics of Epiphany in the Spanish Lyric of

Book SynopsisDrawing on the poetry of four major voices in the Spanish lyric of today, Judith Nantell explores the epistemic works of Luis Muñoz, Abraham Gragera, Josep M. Rodríguez, and Ada Salas, arguing that, for them, the poem is the fundamental means of exploring the nature of both knowledge and poetry. In this first interpretive analysis of the epistemic nature of their poetry, Nantell innovatively engages these poets, each of whom has contributed one of their own poems along with a previously unpublished explication of their chosen poem. Each also provides an original biographical sketch to support Nantell’s development of a poetics of epiphany. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press. Trade Review"Judith Nantell's The Poetics of Epiphany in the Spanish Lyric of Today is a fantastic addition to scholarship on Spanish contemporary poetry. This is an incredibly original and multifaceted work, and the combination of scholarly analyses with contributions from the authors themselves and their poetry makes this a highly original and perceptive piece of work." -- Diana Cullell * editor, Spanish Contemporary Poetry: An Anthology *“Judith Nantell’s The Poetics of Epiphany in the Spanish Lyric of Today is a significant work of criticism that brings to light current lyric innovations in Spain, with particular attention to the epistemic strain in the work of four very recent poets: Luis Muñoz, Abraham Gragera, Josep M. Rodríguez, and Ada Salas. Nantell’s primary argument is that these four share a vision of their art as a process and a movement towards a state of acute realization and insight into their chosen art and, indeed, into the nature of reality. Nantell shows the four to be authors of a “universalist” lyric poetry, written in Spanish across and beyond borders, and fueled – but not limited by -- literary canon, tradition, and artistic influence. This study exhibits a wealth of insights and original observations, bolstered and fortified by the critical armature reflective of the depth and extension of Judith Nantell’s research.” -- Sylvia Sherno * co-editor, Contemporary Spanish Poetry: The Word and the World *"The book is a major contribution to an understanding of the contemporary Spanish lyric, apt for a general audience, specialists in contemporary Spanish literature, and as a model for introducing new poets in graduate classes. In a sense, the study is itself epiphanic. One reads the delimited analyses of just four poets and then somewhat surprisingly realizes that the study offers a clearly defined road map leading into the core of the contemporary Spanish lyric." * Bulletin of Spanish Studies *"The Poetics of Epiphany in the Spanish Lyric of Today offers an enthusiastic celebration of the work of four contemporary Spanish poets....Those in search of an introduction to the work of four poets that highlights each poet’s voice through the inclusion and discussion of biographical statements, poetics, poems, and auto-analyses, though, will undoubtedly find this book to be a valuable resource and point of entry into the work of these four poets." * Studies in Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century Literature *"Judith Nantell's The Poetics of Epiphany in the Spanish Lyric of Today is a fantastic addition to scholarship on Spanish contemporary poetry. This is an incredibly original and multifaceted work, and the combination of scholarly analyses with contributions from the authors themselves and their poetry makes this a highly original and perceptive piece of work." -- Diana Cullell * editor, Spanish Contemporary Poetry: An Anthology *“Judith Nantell’s The Poetics of Epiphany in the Spanish Lyric of Today is a significant work of criticism that brings to light current lyric innovations in Spain, with particular attention to the epistemic strain in the work of four very recent poets: Luis Muñoz, Abraham Gragera, Josep M. Rodríguez, and Ada Salas. Nantell’s primary argument is that these four share a vision of their art as a process and a movement towards a state of acute realization and insight into their chosen art and, indeed, into the nature of reality. Nantell shows the four to be authors of a “universalist” lyric poetry, written in Spanish across and beyond borders, and fueled – but not limited by -- literary canon, tradition, and artistic influence. This study exhibits a wealth of insights and original observations, bolstered and fortified by the critical armature reflective of the depth and extension of Judith Nantell’s research.” -- Sylvia Sherno * co-editor, Contemporary Spanish Poetry: The Word and the World *"The book is a major contribution to an understanding of the contemporary Spanish lyric, apt for a general audience, specialists in contemporary Spanish literature, and as a model for introducing new poets in graduate classes. In a sense, the study is itself epiphanic. One reads the delimited analyses of just four poets and then somewhat surprisingly realizes that the study offers a clearly defined road map leading into the core of the contemporary Spanish lyric." * Bulletin of Spanish Studies *"The Poetics of Epiphany in the Spanish Lyric of Today offers an enthusiastic celebration of the work of four contemporary Spanish poets....Those in search of an introduction to the work of four poets that highlights each poet’s voice through the inclusion and discussion of biographical statements, poetics, poems, and auto-analyses, though, will undoubtedly find this book to be a valuable resource and point of entry into the work of these four poets." * Studies in Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century Literature *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations ... vi Note on Translations ... vii Introduction ... 1 1 Luis Muñoz: The Instant ... 26 Complete Poems by Muñoz ... 75 2 Abraham Gragera: The Word ... 93 Complete Poems by Gragera ... 148 3 Josep M. Rodríguez: The Images ... 184 Complete Poems by Rodríguez ... 262 4 Ada Salas: Poetry and Poetics ... 302 Complete Poems by Salas ... 368 Afterword ... 389 Acknowledgments ... 395 Notes ... 398 Works Cited ... 399 Index ... 415

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Bucknell University Press,U.S. White Light: The Poetry of Alberto Blanco

Book SynopsisWhite Light: The Poetry of Alberto Blanco examines the interplay of complementary images and concepts in the award-winning Mexican writer's cycle of poems from 1979 to 2018. Blanco’s poetic trilogy A la luz de siempre is characterized by its broad range of form and subject and by the poet's own eclectic background as a chemist, maker of collages, and musician. Blanco speaks the language of the visual arts, science, mathematics, music, and philosophy, and creates work with deep interdisciplinary roots. This book explores how polarities such as space and place, reading and writing, sound and silence, visual and verbal representation, and faith and doubt are woven through A la luz de siempre. These complements reveal how Blanco’s poetry, like the phenomenon of white light, embraces paradox and transforms into something more than the sum of its disparate and polychromatic parts.Trade Review"The breadth and depth of interdisciplinary experience and influence in Alberto Blanco’s work could make approaching his poetry a daunting proposition. An accomplished artist and musician, trained chemist, and experienced translator, Blanco draws on a wide range of sources among which he rejects rigid boundaries. Ronald Friis provides not only an insightful tracing of influences, themes, and dynamics in Blanco’s poetry but also a well developed and integrated reading of critics and theory to accompany his analysis. The result is an intelligent, insightful, and accessible consideration of the work of one of Mexico’s most accomplished contemporary intellectuals, artists, and poets." -- Cecelia J. Cavanaugh * author of Lorca's Drawings and Poems: Forming the Eye of the Reader *"A thoughtfully organized, deep engagement that illuminates and contextualizes correspondences among Blanco’s works, as well as with his impressive constellation of literary, musical, artistic, scientific, and philosophical interlocutors, White Light serves in part as an introduction to Blanco’s decades-spanning oeuvre and as a compendium of references to secondary sources." -- Bruce Willis * author of Corporeality in Early Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature: Body Articulations *"The breadth and depth of interdisciplinary experience and influence in Alberto Blanco’s work could make approaching his poetry a daunting proposition. An accomplished artist and musician, trained chemist, and experienced translator, Blanco draws on a wide range of sources among which he rejects rigid boundaries. Ronald Friis provides not only an insightful tracing of influences, themes, and dynamics in Blanco’s poetry but also a well developed and integrated reading of critics and theory to accompany his analysis. The result is an intelligent, insightful, and accessible consideration of the work of one of Mexico’s most accomplished contemporary intellectuals, artists, and poets." -- Cecelia J. Cavanaugh * author of Lorca's Drawings and Poems: Forming the Eye of the Reader *"A thoughtfully organized, deep engagement that illuminates and contextualizes correspondences among Blanco’s works, as well as with his impressive constellation of literary, musical, artistic, scientific, and philosophical interlocutors, White Light serves in part as an introduction to Blanco’s decades-spanning oeuvre and as a compendium of references to secondary sources." -- Bruce Willis * author of Corporeality in Early Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature: Body Articulations *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Chronology Introduction: Light Is Both Wave and Particle Alberto Blanco The Poems Cycles Polarities White Light 1 Image Collage Absence and NegationPoesía visual “Donner à voir” Ekphrasis The Constellation of the Rose 2 Space The Exergue Effect Time and Place Stamps Travel “Mapas” Montage and Movie Stars Three Spatial Strategies for Cuenta de los guías 3 Sound Sister Arts and Synesthesia Tempo, Rhythm, and Rhyme Musical Paratexts Silence 4 Texture Reading and Writing Writers Writing Readers Writing Writing HemispheresTaijitu The Third Half 5 Metaphysics Scientific Methods Observer Effects Crisis Lessons in Geometry Aura Genesis Faith Coda: Flight Notes Bibliography Index

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Bucknell University Press,U.S. 1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in

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Book SynopsisRigorously inventive and revelatory in its adventurousness, 1650–1850 opens a forum for the discussion, investigation, and analysis of the full range of long-eighteenth-century writing, thinking, and artistry. Combining fresh considerations of prominent authors and artists with searches for overlooked or offbeat elements of the Enlightenment legacy, 1650–1850 delivers a comprehensive but richly detailed rendering of the first days, the first principles, and the first efforts of modern culture. Its pages open to the works of all nations and language traditions, providing a truly global picture of a period that routinely shattered boundaries. Volume 27 of this long-running journal is no exception to this tradition of focused inclusivity. Readers will travel through a blockbuster special feature on the topic of worldmaking and other worlds—on the Enlightenment zest for the discovery, charting, imagining, and evaluating of new worlds, envisioned worlds, utopian worlds, and worlds of the future. Essays in this enthusiastically extraterritorial offering escort readers through the science-fictional worlds of Lady Cavendish, around European gardens, over the high seas, across the American frontiers, into forests and exotic ecosystems, and, in sum, into the unlimited expanses of the Enlightenment mind. Further enlivening the volume is a cavalcade of full-length book reviews evaluating the latest in eighteenth-century scholarship. Trade Review"'Had we but world enough and time'; '’Tis the way of the world'; 'To see a world in a grain of sand'—what does 'world' imply in such contexts? In this inspired volume fourteen essayists explicate the 'worlding' of real and imagined spaces across an expanding universe of literary, cartographic, and commercial endeavor." -- David Radcliffe * editor of the digital archive Lord Byron and His Times *Table of ContentsSPECIAL FEATUREWorldmaking and Other Worlds: Restorationto RomanticEdited by Elizabeth Sauer and Betty Joseph Foreword to the Special FeatureIntroduction to the Special FeatureWorlding and Deworlding Reimagined:A New IntroductionBetty Joseph and Elizabeth Sauer OTHER WORLDS: CARTOGRAPHIES AND SPATIOTEMPORAL ORDERS A New Science for a New World: Margaret Cavendish on the Question of PovertyBrandi R. Siegfried and Lisa Walters “All the kingdoms of the world”: Global Visions of Empire and War in Milton’s Paradise Lost and Paradise RegainedDaniel Vitkus Texts and Tectonists: World-making and World-cleaving on the Anglo-Algonquian FrontierAna Schwarz Charlotte Smith’s Littoral Zones: Worldmaking in the Elegiac Sonnets and BeyondDaniel O’Quinn WORLDMAKING: ARTIFACTS, COLLECTIONS, AND MATERIAL CULTURE The Tree and The WorldChris Barrett Imperial Cosmopolitanism and the Structure of Global-Domestic Space in Enlightenment BritainMita Choudhury Colonial Intimacies: Indian Ayahs, British MothersFelicity Nussbaum A World Affair: The South Sea Pavilion in the Garden Realm of Dessau-WörlitzBillie Lythberg WORLDING: ECOLOGIES OF BEING AND OTHERING Indigeneity Overlooked: Indigenous Technologies and Criollo Worldmaking in Infortunios de Alonso Ramírez (1690)Matthew Goldmark William Dampier’s “Sagacious” WorldmakingSu Fang Ng “To serve them in the other world”: Natural History, Worldmaking, and Funeral Song in Hans Sloane's Voyage to…Jamaica (1707–1725)David S. Mazella Crusoe’s Goat UmbrellaChi-ming Yang Speaking in Voices: The South African Poetry of Thomas PringleJennifer L. Hargrave BOOK REVIEWSEdited by Samara Anne Cahill Andrew Pettegree and Arthur der Weduwen. The Bookshop of the World: Making and Trading Books in the Dutch Golden AgeReviewed by Erica Johnson Edwards W. R. Owens, Stuart Sim, and David Walker, eds., Bunyan Studies: A Journal of Reformation and Nonconformist CultureReviewed by Andrew Black Michael Edson, ed., Annotation in Eighteenth-Century PoetryReviewed by Anthony W. Lee Christiane Hertel. Siting China in Germany: Eighteenth-Century Chinoiserie and Its Modern LegacyReviewed by Stephanie Howard-Smith Bärbel Czennia and Greg Clingham, eds., Oriental Networks: Culture, Commerce and Communication in the Long Eighteenth CenturyReviewed by Sir Malcolm Jack Thomas F. Bonnell, ed., The Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell: Research Edition: James Boswell’s Life of Johnson: An Edition of the Original Manuscript in Four Volumes. Volume 4: 1780-1784Reviewed by Anthony W. LeePeter J. Aschenbrenner and Colin Lee, eds. The Papers of John Hatsell, Clerk of the House of CommonsReviewed by Jacqy Sharpe Deborah Heller, ed., Bluestockings Now! The Evolution of a Social RoleReviewed by Gefen Bar-On Santor Eileen Hunt Botting. Mary Shelley and the Rights of the Child: Political Philosophy in FrankensteinReviewed by Samara Anne Cahill Lee Jackson. Palaces of Pleasure: From Music Halls, to the Seaside, to Football, How the Victorians Invented Mass EntertainmentReviewed by James Hamby John M. Gingerich. Schubert’s Beethoven ProjectReviewed by Seow-Chin Ong Edina Adam and Julian Brooks with an essay by Matthew Hargraves. William Blake: VisionaryReviewed by Linda L. Reesman Frances B. Singh. Scandal and Survival in Nineteenth-Century Scotland: The Life of Jane CummingReviewed by Daniel Livesay Abut the Contributors

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Franciscan University Press The Colosseum Critical Introdcution to David

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Wilfrid Laurier University Press Public Poetics: Critical Issues in Canadian Poetry and Poetics

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Book SynopsisPublic Poetics is a collection of essays and poems that address some of the most pressing issues of the discipline in the twenty-first century. The collection brings together fifteen original essays addressing "publics," "poetry," and "poetics" from the situated space of Canada while simultaneously troubling the notion of the nation as a stable term. It asks hard questions about who and what count as "publics" in Canada. Critical essays stand alongside poetry as visual and editorial reminders of the cross-pollination required in thinking through both poetry and poetics. Public Poetics is divided into three thematic sections. The first contains essays surveying poetics in the present moment through the lens of the public/private divide, systematic racism in Canada, the counterpublic, feminist poetics, and Canadian innovations on postmodern poetics. The second section contains author-specific studies of public poets. The final section contains essays that use innovative renderings of "poetics" as a means of articulating alternative communities and practices. Each section is paired with a collection of original poetry by ten contemporary Canadian poets. This collection attends to the changing landscape of critical discourse around poetry and poetics in Canada, and will be of use to teachers and students of poetry and poetics.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Public Poetics; Public Poet, Private Life: 20 Riffs on the Dream of a Communal Self; The Threat of Black Art, or, On Being Unofficially Banned in Canada; The Counter/Public in Pain: The Making & Unmaking of Poetry in Canada; Writing the Body Politic: Feminist Poetics in the 21st Century; Rewriting & Postmodern Poetics In Canada: Neo-Haikus, Neo-Sonnets, Neo-Lullabies, Manifestoes; The Ingeminate Eye: Peter Sangers Public Poetics; Reading for a Civic Public Poetic: Toronto in Raymond Sousters Ten Elephants on Yonge Street & Dennis Lees Civil Elegies; To the Bone: The Instrumental Activism of Dionne Brands Ossuaries; Rearticulate, Renovate, Rebuild: Sachiko Murakamis Architectural Poetics of Community; "We jimmied the radio": Gillian Jerome, Brad Cran, & the Lyric in Public; Formal Protest: Reconsidering the Poetics of Canadian Pamphleteering; Radio Poetics: Publishing & Poetry on CBCs Anthology; The Public Reading: Call for a New Paradigm; We Are the Amp: A Poetics of the Human Microphone; Canadian Public Poetics: Negotiating Belonging in a Globalizing World; Nota Bene; or, Notes toward a Poetics of Work...

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Wilfrid Laurier University Press Certain Details: The Poetry of Nelson Ball

Book SynopsisNelson Ball has had a significant impact on contemporary Canadian poetry not only as a poet but as an editor, with his Weed/Flower Press in the 1960s and 70s. Certain Details provides a major overview of the breadth and many paths of Ball's poetry over six decades. This selection of his work includes his trademark minimalist poems in addition to longer works and sequences; it spans nature poems, homages, meditations, narratives, found poems, and visual poems. The book contains selections from all of Ball's major collections as well as works that have previously appeared only in chapbook or ephemeral form. In a generous and thoughtful afterword, and for the first time in print, Ball discusses his processes, influences, and aesthetics. The book is introduced by editor and poet Stuart Ross, who offers a personal entry point into Nelson Ball's extraordinary oeuvre.

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Wilfrid Laurier University Press Current, Climate: The Poetry of Rita Wong

Book SynopsisCurrent, Climate is an introduction to the environmental and social-justice poetry of Rita Wong. Selections from her poetic oeuvre show how Wong has responded to local and global inequities with outrage, linguistic inventiveness, and sometimes humour. Wong's poetry explores the meeting places of life, language, and land--from downtown Vancouver to the headwaters of the Columbia River. Her poems are deeply attentive to places and their names, and especially to the imposition of foreign words on the unceded Indigenous lands of what is otherwise known as British Columbia. Exhorting readers to recognize their responsibilities to the planet and to their communities, Wong's watershed poetics encompass anger, grief, wit, and hope. Nicholas Bradley's introduction situates Wong's poetry in its literary and cultural contexts, focusing on the role of the author in a time of crisis. In Wong's case, poetry and political activism are intertwined--and profoundly connected to the land and water that sustain us. The volume concludes with an afterword by Rita Wong.

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Wilfrid Laurier University Press A Different Species of Breathing: The Poetry of

Book SynopsisWhat can it look like for poetry to bear witness? What might it feel like for a poem to keep company? A Different Species of Breathing: The Poetry of Sue Goyetteoffers an introduction to the work of a poet whose writing attends to these large and connected questions.Goyette’s poetry experiments with (and pushes at the edges of) lyric poetry to explore webs of connection. Whether considering the ways in which systems of care fail children, the devastating reach of Big Pharma, the reciprocal relationship between oceans and humans, or the possibilities that rest in rewriting one’s own story, Goyette’s poetry is rooted in the work of witnessing and being in company with others.A Different Species of Breathing opens with an introduction by scholar, editor, and poet Bart Vautour, which offers readers context for Goyette’s lyric innovations as well as her key poetic concerns. A selection chosen from across Goyette’s published work then presents readers with poems that appear in chronological order to ground readers in the poet’s trajectories of thinking. The volume closes with a new and previously unpublished interview between Goyette and scholar and writer Erin Wunker. For scholars, poetry aficionados, students, and those interested in questions of care, connection, and ecosystems.

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Book SynopsisEdward Taylor Fletcher was a nineteenth-century literary figure almost completely forgotten by history. Poet, travel writer, essayist, surveyor, philologist, and translator, Fletcher shared many characteristics with the great literary figures of the time. Yet his writing represents a significant departure from his contemporaries and a close reading of his work reshapes our understanding of the Canadian long poem and the cultural values of Canadian poetry. Fletcher spoke English, French, German, Italian, and other modern languages fluently and he studied or translated literary works in Icelandic, Finnish, Polish, Hebrew, Greek, Latin, and Sanskrit (among several others). His poetry interweaves Canadian landscapes with modern and ancient traditions of the East and West and integrates allusions and innovations from several different literary traditions including the Kalavela, the Mahabharata, and the Poetic Edda. By recuperating Fletcher’s nineteenth century works, James Gifford uncovers a unique Canadian literary voice who explored content, style, and concerns unlike the popular colonial narratives of his time.

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University of Calgary Press Borderblur Poetics: Intermedia and Avant-Gardism

Book SynopsisBeginning in 1963 and continuing through the late 1980s, a loose coterie of like-minded Canadian poets challenged the conventions of writing and poetic meaning by fusing their practice with strategies from visual art, sound art, sculpture, instillation, and performance. They called it “borderblur”Borderblur Poetics traces the emergence and proliferation of this node of poetic activity, an avant-garde movement comprising concrete poetry, sound poetry, and kinetic poetry, practiced by poets and artists like bpNichol, bill bissett, Judith Copithorne, Steve McCaffery, Penn Kemp, Ann Rosenberg, Gerry Shikatani, Shaunt Basmajian, among others.Author Eric Schmaltz demonstrates how these poets formed an alternative tradition, one that embraced intermediality to challenge the hegemony of Canadian literature established during the heydays of cultural nationalism. He shows the importance of intermediality as a driving cultural force and how its proliferation significantly altered Canadian cultural expression. Drawing on a combination of archival research, historical analysis, and literary criticism, Borderblur Poetics adds significant nuance to theories and criticisms of Canadian literature.

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Liverpool University Press Byron and John Murray: A Poet and His Publisher

Book SynopsisByron and John Murray: A Poet and His Publisher is the first comprehensive account of the relationship between Byron and the man who published his poetry for over ten years. It is commonly seen as a paradox of Byron’s literary career that the liberal poet was published by a conservative publishing house. It is less of a paradox when, as this book illustrates, we see John Murray as a competitive, innovative publisher who understood how to deal with his most famous author. The book begins by charting the early years of Murray’s success prior to the publication of Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, and describes Byron’s early engagement with the literary marketplace. The book describes in detail how Byron became one of Murray’s authors, before documenting the success of their commercial association and the eventual and protracted disintegration of their relationship. Byron wrote more letters to John Murray than anyone else and their correspondence represents a fascinating dialogue on the nature of Byron’s poetry, and particularly the nature of his fame. It is the central argument of this book that Byron’s ambivalent attitude towards professional writing and popular literature can be illuminated through an understanding of his relationship with John Murray.Trade ReviewReviews 'Interesting, original, well-researched, and important ... a natural companion to The Letters of John Murray to Lord Byron.' Bernard Beatty, University of Liverpool'A substantial and enduring contribution to Byron studies and, more broadly, to literary history and publishing history.' Peter Graham, Virginia Tech'O’Connell neatly explores the demands that the publishing market placed on both Murray and Byron....Byron and John Murray is as much a contribution to studies of sociability, the nineteenth-century publishing world, and the bookselling market place, as it is to accounts of Byron and Byronism. By bringing together reception history, private letters that were exposed to a public world, and Byron’s literary works themselves, this book enhances our understanding of the changing literary landscapes of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.'Charlotte May, The BARS Review, No. 48Table of Contents Introduction 1. John Murray I and II 2. ‘Lord Byron turns pro’ 3. Janus-Faced: James Cawthorn and English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, John Murray and Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage 4. ‘…and found myself famous’ 5. ‘I have written too much’ 6. John Murray and ‘the Demon of Silence’: Byron in Exile 7. ‘A book without a bookseller’ Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThe edition brings together the known writings in poetry and prose of Edward Rushton (1756--1814). Blinded by trachoma after an outbreak on the slaving ship in which he was a young officer, Rushton returned to Liverpool to scratch a living as a publican, newspaper editor, and finally bookseller and publisher. In his day Rushton was a well-known Liverpool poet and reformer, with an impressively wide range of causes (the Liverpool Blind School, the Liverpool Marine Society, and many radical political groups). Many of his songs, particularly the marine ballads, were very familiar in Britain and America. In the later Victorian period, as a particular version of romanticism began to dominate literary sensibilities, Rushton’s overt politics fell from favour and he became rather obscure, at least by comparison with his like-minded (but much better off) friend William Roscoe. As the history of slavery abolition and other radical causes has come to be re-examined, the bicentenary of Rushton’s death, falling in November 2014, has suggested an opportunity to take a new look at his remarkable career and impressive body of work. There has never been a critical edition of Rushton’s poems. His own 1806 edition omits much, including what is his best-known work in modern times, the anti-slavery West-Indian Eclogues of 1787; the posthumous 1824 edition omits much from the 1806 collection while drawing in other work. The present edition works from the earliest datable sources, in newspapers, chapbooks, periodicals, and broadsides, providing a clean text with significant revisions and variants noted in the commentary. Unfamiliar words are glossed, and brief introductions and contextual commentaries, informed by the latest scholarship, are given for each piece of writing.Trade ReviewReviews 'A very welcome book and one which does justice to Edward Rushton’s remarkable and unique literary achievement.' John Whale'The Collected Writings of Edward Rushton (1756–1814), edited by Paul Baines and Franca Dellarosa’s Talking Revolution: Edward Rushton’s Rebellious Poetics 1782–1814 (a first-rate critical biography) taken together, are two volumes that enable Rushton’s work to join a large and sometimes quite riveting body of material at the intersection of working-class poetry and the literary history of abolitionism.' Jenny Davidson, SEL Review'Paul Baines’s The Collected Writings of Edward Rushton, is a triumph... space is given to Rushton’s poetry and prose in a manner that allows them to speak for themselves. Baines does not clutter the text with lengthy notes concerning textual variants, history, or glosses, instead confining these to a detailed but concise ‘commentary’ at the end of the volume.' Matthew Ward & Paul Whickman, Year's Work in English Studies'[This is] the first modern volume of [Rushton's] collected works (painstakingly edited by Paul Baines)... As Baines pointed out at the 2014 conference marking both the bicentenary of Rushton’s death and the publication of these books, the attempt to collect, collate and rationalise the fugitive poetry of a figure whose work was often ephemeral, unattributed or reproduced without permission on either side of the Atlantic was a formidable one. The scale of this undertaking is evidenced by the 102 pages of commentary that accompany the works themselves.' Ryan Hanley, The BARS Review, No. 48'[Baines] brings more attention to this fascinating writer.'Jeffrey N. Cox, Studies in English LiteratureTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction Abbreviations and Short Titles POEMS An Irregular Ode (1781) To the People of England (1782) The Dismember’d Empire (1782) West-Indian Eclogues (1787) The Neglected Tars of Britain (1787) Neglected Genius (1787) Poor Ben (1790) A Song Sung at the Commemoration of the Anniversary of the French Revolution, at Liverpool, July 14, 1791 (1791) The Fire of Liberty (1792) Seamen’s Nursery (1794) Stanzas on the Anniversary of the American Revolution (1794) The Tender’s Hold (1794) Blue Eyed Mary (1796) Elegy [To the Memory of Robert Burns] (c.1796) Sonnet [The Swallow] (c.1796) The Remedy [The Leviathan] (1797) Song [Mary le More] (1798) Written for the anniversary of the Liverpool Marine Society (1799) Song. From Hymns, &c. for the Blind (c. 1799) Lucy’s Ghost. A Marine Ballad (1800) Sonnet by a Poor Man. On the approach of the Gout (1801) Will Clewline (1801) Ode. Sung at St. John’s Chapel, Lancaster, on Tuesday last, being the Anniversary of the Lancaster Marine Society (1801) Ode. To France (1802) The Maniac (1804) Stanzas on Blindness (1805) To a Redbreast (1806) Solicitude (1806) Toussaint to his Troops (1806) On the Death of Hugh Mulligan (1806) To a Bald-Headed Poetical Friend (1806) The Ardent Lover (1806) The Lass of Liverpool (1806) Woman (1806) Mary’s Death (1806) The Halcyon (1806) The Shrike (1806) Briton, and Negro Slave (1806) Absence (1806) On the Death of a Much-Loved Relative (1806) Entreaty (1806) A Caution (1806) The Throstle (1806) The Complaint (1806) The Pier (1806) Mary (1806) The Origin of Turtle and Punch (1806) Parody (1806) The Farewell (1806) The Return (1806) To the Gout (1806) On the Death of Miss E. Fletcher (1806) The Chase (1806) The Winter’s Passage (1806) Stanzas on the Recovery of Sight (1809) Lines to the Memory of William Cowdroy (1814) The Fire of English Liberty (1824) Lines Addressed to Robt. Southey, Esq. (1817) The Exile’s Lament (1824) An Epitaph on John Taylor (1824) To the Memory of Bartholomew Tilski (1824) Jemmy Armstrong (1824) Superstition (1824) PROSE Expostulatory Letter to George Washington (1797) [Letter to Thomas Paine] (written c. 1800, published 1809) [Monthly Retrospect of Politics] (1810) Extracts from Letters (written 1805-1813, published 1814) A Few Plain Facts relative to the Origin of the Liverpool Institute for the Blind (written 1804, published 1817) An Attempt to prove that Climate, Food, and Manners, are not the Causes of the Dissimilarity of Colour (unknown date, published 1824) [Letter to Samuel Ryley, 12 August 1814] (written 1814, published 1903) [Mr Rushtons Remarks on the Slavery] (unknown date, previously unpublished) [Letter to Thomas Walker, 30 January 1806] (written 1806, previously unpublished) COMMENTARY Abbreviations and Short Titles Glossary Poems Prose Appendix One: poems possibly by Rushton Appendix Two: poems written to and about Rushton

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Liverpool University Press The Alvarez Generation: Thom Gunn, Geoffrey Hill,

Book SynopsisThis book is the biography of a taste in poetry and its consequences. During the 1950s and 1960s, a generation of poets appeared who would eschew the restrained manner of Movement poets such as Philip Larkin, a generation who would, in the words of the introduction to A. Alvarez’s classic anthology The New Poetry, take poetry ‘Beyond the Gentility Principle’. This was the generation of Thom Gunn, Geoffrey Hill, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath and Peter Porter. William Wootten explores what these five poets shared in common, their connections, critical reception, rivalries and differences, and locates what was new and valuable in their work. The Alvarez Generation is an important re-evaluation of a time when contemporary poetry and its criticism had a cultural weight it has now lost and when a ‘new seriousness’ was to become closely linked to questions of violence, psychic unbalance and, most controversially of all, suicide. A new Afterword contains important biographical information on Sylvia Plath and reflects on its implications both for the discussions contained in the book and for the study of Plath’s work more generally.Trade Review'A well-researched, gracefully-written and important book about a formative period in British and Irish poetry. Wootten has established himself as a fine critic.' Patrick McGuinness'The Alvarez Generation is an illuminating, provocative and important book... Though briefer, it is as significant as Blake Morrison’s The Movement.' Sean O'Brien'Wootten's account of the emergence and persistence of these tastes allows us to understand much of what happened in British poetry in the post-war era.'Justin Quinn, Times Literary Supplement'[As] "the serious gives way to ludic scepticism" in more and more contemporary poetry, it is good to be reminded of a time when much more seemed at stake.'Michael Daniels, PN ReviewTable of Contents Preface Part I 1. Beginnings: Oxford and Cambridge Poetry in the early 1950s 2. ‘A Violent Time’: Anti-Movement Poetry in the mid to late 1950s 3. In Opposite Directions: A. Alvarez and Thom Gunn 4. Against Gentility 5. On Being Serious 6. Anthology Making 7. First Reactions: 'The Review' Debate and the Initial Response to 'The New Poetry' Part II 8. Sylvia Plath Part III 9. Going to Extremes 10. ‘A Study of Suicide’ Part IV 11. ‘Against Extremism’ 12. Costing Seriousness 13. ‘I Don’t Like Dramatising Myself’: anti-confessionalism in the later poetry of Thom Gunn 14. 'Birthday Letters' 15. Geoffrey Hill’s New Poetry 16. Children of 'The New Poetry' Index

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Liverpool University Press Contemporary Irish Women Poets: Memory and

Book Synopsis An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library. This study examines the intersection of private and public spheres through the representation of memory in contemporary poetry by Irish women. Collins explores how memory shapes creativity in the work of well-known poets such as Eavan Boland, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin and Medbh McGuckian as well as in that of an exciting group of younger poets. This book analyses, for the first time, the complex responses to the past recorded by contemporary women poets in Ireland and the implications these have for the concept of a national tradition.Trade ReviewReviews 'There is a great deal to admire in this volume. Collins has a thorough knowledge of each of her poets’ work, and each chapter aims to deal with nearly the complete oeuvre of the writer at hand. The prose style is clear and concise. There are a wide range of critics and theorists mentioned throughout the text, and a number of topics are brought up in relation to the poetry. And Collins has a knack for choosing the right passage or poem to bring into play.' Eric Falci, UC BerkeleyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction: Memory, Estrangement and the Poetic Text PART 1: CONCEPTS 1. Lost Lands: The Creation of Memory in the Poetry of Eavan Boland 2. Here and Elsewhere: Migrant Identities and the Contemporary Woman Poet 3. Private Memory and the Construction of Subjectivity in Contemporary Irish Women’s Poetry PART 2: ACHIEVEMENTS 4. Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin’s Spaces of Memory 5. Medbh McGuckian’s Radical Temporalities 6. Catherine Walsh: A Poetics of Flux 7. Vona Groarke: Memory and Materiality Conclusion: Memories of the Future Bibliography General Index Index of Works

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Liverpool University Press Poetry, Photography, Ekphrasis: Lyrical

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Book SynopsisPoetry, Photography, Ekphrasis is a detailed study of the ekphrasis of photography in poetry since the 19th century. Unlike other critical studies of ekphrasis, Miller’s study concentrates solely on the lyrical ekphrasis of photographs, setting out to define how the photographic image provides a unique form of poetic ekphrasis. Moving between the disciplines of semiotics, visual studies, psychology, classical rhetoric, philosophy and literary criticism, Miller outlines what he defines as the chronotope of the photograph. Employing M.M. Bakhtin’s notion of the literary chronotope, Miller argues that the ekphrasis of photographs manifests itself in a series of chronotopic narratives. Each chapter of the book is dedicated to delineating one of these narratives. In this work, Miller engages in a literary history that follows the timeline of photography from its origins in the 19th century to its contemporary digital manifestations in the 21st. The study engages in close-readings of the works of such poets as Walt Whitman, Lewis Carroll, Thomas Hardy, Seamus Heaney, Marianne Moore and Philip Larkin. In addition, the book does the work of a comparative study, and it goes beyond the limits of Anglophone literature to include the works of such poets and writers as Walter Benjamin, Charles Baudelaire, Bertolt Brecht, Ernesto Cardenal and Zbigniew Herbert.Trade ReviewReviews 'Poetry, Photography, Ekphrasis is an excellent treatment of an understudied topic. Miller is willing to follow close readings where they lead, and thus the book is rich in discussions of philosophy, psychology and literary and art theory. His book will be useful to those who are interested in Ekphrasis, English poetry, American poetry, and Comparative Literature.' Helen EmmittTable of ContentsAcknowledgments A Note on the Presence of Translations and Poems in their Original Languages Introduction That Which Will Not Perish Into Art: The Chronotope Of The Photograph The Ekphrasis Of The Cicerone: The 19th Century No Fairer Imaging: Pope Leo XIII’s “Ars Photographica” Favoring Nature: Herman Melville’s “On the Photograph of a Corps Commander” As Ducks That Die in Tempests: Lewis Carroll’s “Hiawatha’s Photographing” Imprints on a Mind of Silver: Walt Whitman’s “My Picture-Gallery” The Snapshot Elegy Like Bitter Tokens: Ivor Gurney’s “Photographs” The Enargeia of the Flames: Thomas Hardy’s “The Photograph” Prosthetic Heavens: Philip Larkin’s “Lines on a Young Lady’s Photograph Album” The Suppressed Ekphrasis Seeing Like Herodotus: Marianne Moore’s “The Paper Nautilus” Seeing Through an Opaque Repose: Seamus Heaney’s “The Grauballe Man” The Ekphrasis Of Iconic Photographs The Horror of War: Sharon Olds’s “Coming of Age, 1966,” Kate Daniels’s “War Photograph” and Louis de Paor’s “Changeling” A People’s Prayer: Ernesto Cardenal’s “Prayer for Marilyn Monroe” The Ekphrastic Calligram All in the Rubbish Heap Now: Thom Gunn’s Positives Looking Hard At Things: Richard Howard’s “Charles Baudelaire” A Sacred Exposure: John Logan’s “On a Photograph by Aaron Siskind” The Anti-Ekphrasis: Larry Levis’s “Sensationalism” The Speaking Photograph The Helmets of the Vanquished: Bertolt Brecht’s War Primer Dream After Dream After Dream: Adam Thorpe’s “Navaho” The Shadow Of The Former Self Pink and White, Black and White: Robert Penn Warren’s “Old Photograph of the Future” On Zeno’s Arrow: Zbigniew Herbert’s “Photograph” A Head of Fungus: John Ashbery’s “The Picture of Little J. A. in a Prospect of Flowers” The Photoshopped Image: The Ekphrases Of Digital Photographs Software Metaphors: Tadeusz Dąbrowski’s “I scanned my photograph from the first year” and “Resolution” A Sublimely Blurred Unity: Klara Nowakowska’s “Low Resolution” Coda: Sallie In Her Byzantine Mirror Bibliography Index

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Liverpool University Press Avant-Folk: Small Press Poetry Networks from 1950

Book SynopsisAvant-Folk is the first comprehensive study of a loose collective of important British and American poets, publishers, and artists (including Lorine Niedecker, Ian Hamilton Finlay, and Jonathan Williams) and the intersection of folk and modernist, concrete and lyric poetics within the small press poetry networks that developed around these figures from the 1950s up to the present day. Avant-Folk argues that the merging of the demotic with the avant-garde is but one of the many consequences of a particularly vibrant period of creative exchange when this network of poets, publishers, and artists expanded considerably the possibilities of small press publishing. Avant-Folk explores how, from this still largely unexplored body of work, emerge new critical relations to place, space, and locale. Paying close attention to the transmission of demotic cultural expressions, this study of small press poetry networks also revises current assessments regarding the relationship between the cosmopolitan and the regional and between avant-garde and vernacular, folk aesthetics. Readers of Avant-Folk will gain an understanding of how small press publishing practices have revised these familiar terms and how they reconceive the broader field of twentieth-century British and American poetry.Trade ReviewReviews 'Avant-Folk is extremely well researched, rich in detail, thought-provoking and highly readable.' DURA'The homemade folk poetry publishing tradition is no obstacle to global recognition as Ross Hair shows in Avant-Folk: Small Press Poetry Networks from 1950 to the Present. Hair’s book points to the variety of ways that poetic networks can evolve and become important ways of sustaining ‘interpersonal relationships’ outside of the city.'Tears in the Fence'This is an intricate, painstaking and thorough book, stocked full of details about the minutiae of poets’ lives and works, as well as offering range of very interesting close readings... It offers an exciting array of detail about factors constituting poetic groupings, as well as providing tentative sketches towards a map of understanding the potent forces of marginality in constituting certain poetic identities and aesthetic styles.'Gareth Farmer, English StudiesTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Permissions Abbreviations Introduction Chapter 1: The Avant-Folkways of Lorine Niedecker Chapter 2: Ian Hamilton Finlay: Scottish Futurist Chapter 3: Jonathan Williams: Beyond Black Mountain Chapter 4: Small is Quite Beautiful: Tarasque Press Chapter 5: Opening the Folds: A Pastoral Vanguard Chapter 6: Coracle’s Unpainted Landscapes Coda: Certain Trees Bibliography

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Liverpool University Press Shelley’s Living Artistry: Letters, Poems, Plays

Book SynopsisThis study of the poetry and drama of Percy Bysshe Shelley reads the letters and their biographical contexts to shed light on the poetry, tracing the ambiguous and shifting relationship between the poet’s art and life. For Shelley, both life and art are transfigured by their relationship with one another where the ‘poet participates in the eternal, the infinite, and the one’ but is equally bound up with and formed by the society in which he lives and the past that he inherits. Callaghan shows that the distinctiveness of Shelley’s work comes to rest on its wrong-footing of any neat division of life and art. The dazzling intensity of Shelley’s poetry and drama lies in its refusal to separate the twain as Shelley explores and finally explodes the boundaries between what is personal and what is poetic. Arguing that the critic, like the artist, cannot ignore the conditions of the poet’s life, Callaghan reveals how Shelley’s artistry reconfigures and redraws the actual in his poetry. The book shows how Shelley’s poetic daring lies in troubling the distinction between poetry as aesthetic work hermetically sealed against life, and poetry as a record of the emotional life of the poet.Trade ReviewReviews'Callaghan reads Shelley’s letters and their biographical concerns to illuminate his poetry, tracing the shifting relationship between the poet’s poetry and life. She shows that Shelley refused and exploded the boundaries between the personal and poetic by reconfiguring life events within his poetry and drama. The boundary between the poet’s life and art is a difficult one for a critic and often less useful than close textual analysis. Callaghan makes a case for the ways in which Shelley transmutes the personal into transformative poetry with Shelley’s understanding that ‘the poet man are of two different natures’ and that the ‘poem is the very image of life expressed in its eternal truth’, where truth and eternity clash.' Tears in the Fence'Callaghan is a confident judge and writer … an able close reader, whose readings are equally adept at handling the discursive tenor of Shelley’s often philosophically involved poetry and the intricacies of his metrical and stanzaic patterning, and a diligent scholar with an impressive command of the secondary literature on Shelley’s work. She is clearly unafraid of overturning critical commonplaces that have become established in Shelley studies and, moreover, she makes a compelling case for taking the early poetry more seriously on artistic terms than it has been so far. Shelley’s Living Artistry will make study of his correspondence much more central to future accounts of his work. Shelley’s Living Artistry is, then, a notable contribution to contemporary study of Shelley and, in particular, provides a useful reminder of the different genres and modes in which he wrote and the often taut relations between them.' Ross Wilson, Cambridge Quarterly‘A valuable, ranging and deeply informed contribution…to any reader sympathetic to neo-formalism, and indeed any reader sympathetic to Shelley (who can be as frustrating a poet as a brilliantly incandescent one), this study will repay attention.’Christopher Stokes, The BARS Review‘In Shelley’s Living Artistry: Letters, Poems, Plays, Madeleine Callaghan offers a stimulating and absorbing account of the way that Shelley self-consciously stages his artistic development in his poetry and his efforts to "[transmute] the dross of the personal into the gold of art"...In short, Shelley’s Living Artistry makes a convincing case for reading Shelley’s poetry "through the lens of the letters" so as to bring into focus important aspects of his artistry and develop "a fuller consideration of Shelley’s poetic achievement".’Jonathan Quayle, English: Journal of the English Association‘Shelley’s art, in Callaghan’s monograph, is living. It is not something that has been created or recreated, but rather like the statue of Hermione in Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale, needs only to be touched to feel its living warmth.’ Dana Van Kooy, European Romantic Review'This is a compellingly argued book, and it represents a serious and substantial addition to Shelley scholarship. What is particularly refreshing, however, is that Callaghan is not simply an expert scholarly reader of Shelley. She quite clearly loves his poetry and is not afraid to say so, or to reach for superlatives when only superlatives will do. It is this passion for the poetry and for understanding the depths of Shelley’s artistry that drives her close reading and animates her account of individual texts. Surely a poet as attuned to the revolutionary potential of reading as was Shelley would be pleased to have found such a reader.' Daisy Hay, Keats-Shelley JournalTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: ‘A poem is the very image of life’Standard Abbreviations and Note on Texts1. ‘Painted fancy’s unsuspected scope’: The Esdaile Notebook, Poetical Essay on the Existing State of Things, and Queen Mab2. ‘These transient meetings’: Alastor and Laon and Cythna3. ‘All that is majestic’: The Scrope Davies Notebook4. ‘That such a man should be such a poet!’: ‘To Wordsworth’, ‘Verses Written on Receiving a Celandine in a Letter from England’, and Julian and Maddalo5. ‘In a style very different’: Prometheus Unbound and The Cenci6. ‘The sacred talisman of language’: The Witch of Atlas and A Defence of Poetry7. ‘One is always in love with something or other’: Epipsychidion and the Jane Poems8. ‘The right road to Paradise’: Adonais and The Triumph of LifeBibliographyIndex

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Liverpool University Press Pacifist Invasions: Arabic, Translation & the

Book SynopsisPacifist Invasions is about what happens to the francophone lyric in the translingual Franco-Arabic context. Drawing on lyric theory, comparative poetics, and linguistics, it demonstrates how Arabic literature and Islamic scripture pacifically invade French in the poetry of Habib Tengour (Algeria), Edmond Jabès (Egypt), Salah Stétié (Lebanon), Abdelwahab Meddeb (Tunisia), and Ryoko Sekiguchi (Japan). Pacifist Invasions deploys side-by-side comparisons of classical Arabic literature, Islamic scripture, and the Arabic commentary traditions in the original language against the landscapes of modern and contemporary French and francophone literature, poetry, and poetics. Detailed close readings reveal three generic modes of translating Arabic poetics into the French lyric, and the mechanisms by which poets foreignize French, as they engage in a translational and intertextual relationship with the history and world of Arabic literature.Through fine-grained analyses of poetry, translations, commentaries, chapbooks, art books, and essays, Pacifist Invasions proposes a cross-cultural history and rereading of French and francophone literatures in relation to the transversal translations and transmissions of classical Arabic poetics. It offers a translingual, comparative repositioning of the field of francophone postcolonial studies along a fluid, translational Franco-Arabic axis. The vision of the postfrancophone succeeds the point of exhaustion within the French poetic sociolect, with wide-ranging and surprising implications for the study of French and francophone poetry.Trade ReviewReviews 'Pacifist Invasions will be of major importance to scholars of postcolonial francophone literature and intervenes in important ways in ongoing debates on world literature.'Olivia Harrison, University of Southern California'Elegant, textured, and richly insightful, yasser elhariry’s book nimbly explores Franco-Arab writers who infuse French poetry with Arabic cultural traditions. Helpfully delineating major Arabic forms that go back many centuries, Elhariry examines how contemporary poets intertextually and interlingually intertwine them with French. They remake the landscape of French poetry, unleashing new possibilities by their reverse colonization of French with the idioms, forms, and spirituality of Muslim Arab lands. An important study of a fascinatingly translingual and intercultural body of work.'Jahan Ramazani, editor ofThe Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial PoetryTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsNote on TranslationsPreface // Ends of FrenchIntroduction // Word Over WordPart One // Odists 1 Translating Translating Tengour 2 Sky-Birds & Dead Trees: On Two Images in Edmond JabèsPart Two // Sufis 3 Wine Song: Salah Stétié & ʿOmar ibn al-Fārid 4 Sufis in Mecca: Abdelwahab Meddeb, Ibn ʿArabī, & the New LyricPart Three // Andalusians 5 Heliotropic Exit: Ryoko Sekiguchi’s MuwashshahConclusion // PostfrancophoneNotesBibliographyIndex

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