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Book SynopsisAs poet, critic, theorist and teacher, Charles Olson extended the possibilities of modern writing. From Call Me Ishmael, his pioneering study of Herman Melville, to his epic poetic project The Maximus Poems, Olson probed the relation between language, space and community. Writing in the aftermath of the Second World War, he provided radical resources for the re-imagining of place and politics, resources for collective thought and creative practice we are still learning how to use. Re-situating Olson’s work in relation both to his own moment and to current concerns, the essays assembled in Contemporary Olson provide a major re-assessment of his place in postwar poetry and culture. Through a series of contextualising chapters, discussions of individual poems and reflections on Olson’s legacy by leading international writers and critics, the book presents a poet who still informs contemporary poetry.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Contemporary Olson – David HerdSection I: Knowledge1. Myth and document in Charles Olson's Maximus Poems – Miriam Nichols2. Discoverable unknowns: Olson’s lifelong preoccupation with the sciences – Peter Middleton3. ‘Empty Air’: Charles Olson’s cosmology – Reitha Pattison4. A reading of ‘In Cold Hell, In Thicket’ – Ian Brinton and Michael GrantSection II: Poetics5. From Olson’s breath to Spicer’s gait: spacing, pacing, phonemes – Daniel Katz6. Poetic instruction – Michael Kindellan7. Reading Blackburn reading Olson: Paul Blackburn reads Olson’s ‘Maximus, to Gloucester: Letter 15’ – Simon Smith8. From Weymouth back: Olson’s British contacts, travels and legacy – Gavin Selerie9. A fresh look at Olson – Elaine FeinsteinSection III: Gender10. Olson and his Maximus Poems – Rachel Blau DuPlessis11. ‘When the attentions change’: Charles Olson and Frances Boldereff – Robert Hampson12. ‘The pictorial handwriting of his dreams’: Charles Olson, Susan Howe, Redell Olsen – Will MontgomerySection IV: History13. The contemporaries: a reading of Charles Olson’s ‘The Lordly and Isolate Satyrs’ – Stephen Fredman14. Futtocks – Anthony Mellors15. Death in life: the past in ‘As the Dead Prey Upon Us’ – Ben Hickman16. ‘To Gerhardt, There, Among Europe’s Things of Which He Has Written Us in His “Brief an Creeley und Olson’’’: Olson on history, in dialogue – Sarah Posman17. ‘Moving among my particulars’: the ‘negative dialectics’ of The Maximus Poems – Tim Woods18. A note on Charles Olson’s ‘The Kingfishers’ – Charles BernsteinSection V: Space19. Transcultural projectivism in Charles Olson’s ‘The Kingfishers’ and Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri’s Warlugulong – Peter Minter20. The view from Gloucester: Open Field Poetics and the politics of movement – David Herd21. Why Olson did ballet: the pedagogical avant-gardism of Massine – Karlien van den Beukel22. On the back of the elephant: riding with Charles Olson – Iain SinclairEpilogue: Charles Olson’s first poem – Ralph MaudBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisJohn Ashbery is America's greatest living poet. He is also greatly misunderstood. Presenting the poet in all his forms -avant-garde, nostalgic, sublime and camp - this book argues that the perpetual inventiveness of Ashbery's work has always been underpinned by the poets desire to write the poem fit to cope with its occasion.Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsAbbreviationsIntroduction1. Two Scenes2. The Art of Life3. An American in Paris4. Forms of Action5. From Poetry to Prose6. John Ashbery in Conversation7. John Ashbery and Friends8. 'And later, after the twister': the sense of an ending in recent AshberyBibliography

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Book SynopsisEnthusiast! is a polemical history of American literature told from the point of view of six of its major enthusiasts. The book establishes enthusiasm as a defining feature of American literature. It shows how enthusiasm is fundamental to the circulation of culture. It -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction: A short essay on enthusiasm1. Crowing2. Spouting3. Calling4. Presenting 5. Circulating 6. Relishing Afterword: Enthusiasm and auditAcknowledgementsBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisRe-situating Olson’s work in relation both to his own moment and to current concerns, the essays assembled in Contemporary Olson provide a major re-assessment of his place in postwar poetry and culture.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Contemporary Olson – David HerdSection I: Knowledge1. Myth and document in Charles Olson's Maximus Poems – Miriam Nichols2. Discoverable unknowns: Olson’s lifelong preoccupation with the sciences – Peter Middleton3. ‘Empty Air’: Charles Olson’s cosmology – Reitha Pattison4. A reading of ‘In Cold Hell, In Thicket’ – Ian Brinton and Michael GrantSection II: Poetics5. From Olson’s breath to Spicer’s gait: spacing, pacing, phonemes – Daniel Katz6. Poetic instruction – Michael Kindellan7. Reading Blackburn reading Olson: Paul Blackburn reads Olson’s ‘Maximus, to Gloucester: Letter 15’ – Simon Smith8. From Weymouth back: Olson’s British contacts, travels and legacy – Gavin Selerie9. A fresh look at Olson – Elaine FeinsteinSection III: Gender10. Olson and his Maximus Poems – Rachel Blau DuPlessis11. ‘When the attentions change’: Charles Olson and Frances Boldereff – Robert Hampson12. ‘The pictorial handwriting of his dreams’: Charles Olson, Susan Howe, Redell Olsen – Will MontgomerySection IV: History13. The contemporaries: a reading of Charles Olson’s ‘The Lordly and Isolate Satyrs’ – Stephen Fredman14. Futtocks – Anthony Mellors15. Death in life: the past in ‘As the Dead Prey Upon Us’ – Ben Hickman16. ‘To Gerhardt, There, Among Europe’s Things of Which He Has Written Us in His “Brief an Creeley und Olson’’’: Olson on history, in dialogue – Sarah Posman17. ‘Moving among my particulars’: the ‘negative dialectics’ of The Maximus Poems – Tim Woods18. A note on Charles Olson’s ‘The Kingfishers’ – Charles BernsteinSection V: Space19. Transcultural projectivism in Charles Olson’s ‘The Kingfishers’ and Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri’s Warlugulong – Peter Minter20. The view from Gloucester: Open Field Poetics and the politics of movement – David Herd21. Why Olson did ballet: the pedagogical avant-gardism of Massine – Karlien van den Beukel22. On the back of the elephant: riding with Charles Olson – Iain SinclairEpilogue: Charles Olson’s first poem – Ralph MaudBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisDrawing on the proceedings of two conferences organized to celebrate the centenary of John Berryman’s birth in 2014, John Berryman: Centenary Essays provides new perspectives on a major US American poet’s work by critics from Ireland, the United Kingdom, Canada and the United States. In addition to new readings of important aspects of Berryman’s development – including his creative and scholarly encounters with Shakespeare, Milton, Wordsworth and W. B. Yeats – the book gives fresh accounts of his engagements with contemporaries such as Delmore Schwartz and Randall Jarrell. It also includes essays that explore Berryman’s poetic responses to Mozart and his influence on the contemporary Irish poet Paul Muldoon. Making extensive use of unpublished archival sources, personal reflections by friends and former students of the poet are accompanied by meditations on Berryman’s importance for writers today by award-winning poets Paula Meehan and Henri Cole. Encompassing a wide range of scholarly perspectives and introducing several emerging voices in the field of Berryman studies, this volume affirms a major poet’s significance and points to new directions for critical study and creative engagement with his work.Table of ContentsContents: Paula Meehan: Foreword: «Berrymancy» – Philip Coleman/Peter Campion: Introduction – Judith Koll Healey/Richard J. Kelly/Bob Lundegaard: Berryman as Teacher and Friend: Personal Reminiscences – Michael Berryhill: Henry and His Problems – Claudio Sansone: John Berryman’s «Poundian Inheritance» and the Epic of «Synchrisis» – Edward Clarke: Berryman’s Mischief – Karl O’Hanlon: «A fresh, active relation»: Milton’s Lycidas and the Poetry of John Berryman – Deanna Wendel: Multiple Impersonalities: T. S. Eliot and John Berryman – Heather Treseler: Of Letters and Lyric Style: John Berryman’s Homage to Mistress Bradstreet – J. T. Welsch: «Satanic pride»: Berryman, Schwartz, and the Genesis of Love & Fame – Alex Runchman: «the angel and the beast in man»: John Berryman, Delmore Schwartz, and Shakespeare – Michael Hinds: Berryman-Jarrell: Nervous Affinities – Katherine Ebury: «The sonnet might ‹lead to dishonesty›»: John Berryman and Paul Muldoon as Sonneteers – Stephen Matterson: Not Allowed to be Bored: John Berryman’s Lexicon of Boredom – Adam Beardsworth: The Pornography of Grief: John Berryman and the Language of Suffering – Eve Cobain: «He begot us an enigma»: Berryman’s Beethoven – Peter Campion: John Berryman’s Acoustics – Michael P. Carriger/William C. Patterson: Henry in High School: John Berryman in the Classroom is an «Angry Zen Touch» – Henri Cole: Afterword: My John Berryman; or, Imagination, Love, Intellect, and Pain.

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