Radical as reality form and freedom in American poetry / Peter Campion.
| Author/creator | Campion, Peter, 1976- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2019. |
| Description | 261 pages ; 23 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Part One. Frost and Stevens at the Casa Marina -- A Dream We Dreamed Each Separately -- John Berryman's Acoustics -- James Wright's Classicism -- Palpable Fact: James Schuyler and Immediacy -- Part Two. Biographical Form: Five Poets -- Mah Wallah-Woe -- Larry Levis -- Part Three. Verse Chronicle: Poems of Force -- "The Wolf, the Snake, the Hog, Not Wanting in Me": Poetry and Resistance -- Free within Ourselves -- Sincerity and Its Discontents. |
| Abstract | "What do American poets mean when they talk about "freedom"? Freedom from what, or the freedom to do what? And how does form, as an aesthetic choice, dramatize certain fundamental questions, such as what shapes we want to give to our poetic lives, how much power we actually have to choose those shapes, and what, exactly, do we even mean by "we"? The former editor of Literary Imagination here collects his thoughts on the last one hundred years of American poetry, the poems he finds to be the most awe-inspiring, the most surprising and inevitable, and the ones built to endure. Peter Campion challenges facile, received notions and shows us an American poetic landscape more subtle and varied than most critics have allowed. The book is also about poetic making, whether out of the tensions between personal and communal experience, or an effort to reinvent the art by combining epic and lyric precedents, or, finally, as a negotiation between the pull of convention and the desire for individual expression, between abstract formal energies and the ever-thickening texture of our shared global social experience"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-257) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2019024360 |
| ISBN | 9780226663234 (cloth) |
| ISBN | 9780226663371 (paperback) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |