Ghosts and the Overplus

Reading Poetry in the Twenty-First Century

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

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Ghosts and the Overplus is a celebration of lyric poetry in the twenty-first century and how lyric poetry incorporates the voices of our age as well as the poetic “ghosts” from the past. Acclaimed poet and award-winning teacher Christina Pugh is fascinated by how poems continually look backward into literary history. Her essays find new resonance in poets ranging from Emily Dickinson to Gwendolyn Brooks to the poetry of the present. Some of these essays also consider the way that poetry interacts with the visual arts, dance, and the decision to live life as a nonconformist. This wide-ranging collection showcases the critical discussions around poetry that took place in America over the first two decades of our current millennium. Essay topics include poetic forms continually in migration, such as the sonnet; poetic borrowings across visual art and dance; and the idiosyncrasies of poets who lived their lives against the grain of literary celebrity and trend. What unites all of these essays is a drive to dig more deeply into the poetic word and act: to go beyond surface reading in order to reside longer with poems. In essays both discursive and personal, Pugh shows that poetry asks us to think differently—in a way that gathers feeling into the realm of thought, thereby opening the mysteries that reside in us and in the world around us.

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Utgivningsdatum2024-03-19
Mått137 x 203 x 15 mm
Vikt270 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SeriePoets on Poetry
Antal sidor202
FörlagThe University of Michigan Press
ISBN9780472039609

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Christina Pugh has published five books of poems including Stardust Media (2020), winner of the Juniper Prize for Poetry from the University of Massachusetts Press. She has received fellowships and awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Poetry Society of America, the Bogliasco Foundation, and the Illinois Arts Council. A recent Visiting Artist at the American Academy in Rome, she is a professor in the Program for Writers at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Introduction 2005-2010: This Work Which is Not OneNo Experience Necessary Instinctual Ballast: Imitation and Creative Writing On Sonnet Thought Humor Anxiety Allusion and Context in Contemporary American Poetry Ed Roberson’s Inward Lyricism Light in Nagasaki: Catherine McCarthy’s “We Walk On Jewels”“Some Chant I’m Working At” An Elegy for Dancing 2011-2015: Gravity, Images, and the HandOn Nonconformists and Strange Gravity The Emily Dickinsons “A Lovely Finish I Have Seen”: Voice and Variorum in Edgar Allan Poe & the Juke-Box“Arranging, Deepening, Enchanting” : Catherine McCarthy’s Flower ArrangingA Farm, Two Spiders, and A Book of Luminous Things: Czeslaw Milosz’s Affinity for the Image Turning, Troping, Wresting: Michael Ryan’s “My Dream byHenry James” “Found Breath”: The Contemporary “Mainstream” Lyric 2015-2021: Voicing the OverplusProsopopoeia: The Throwing of a Voice “Velvety Velour” and Other Sonnet Textures in Gwendolyn Brooks’s “the children of the poor” “Cinnamon. Eyeshadow. Dove”: Considering Jean Valentine (1934-2020) On Ghosts and the Overplus

“Elegance, restraint, conviction, and a quiet authority have always been the hallmarks of Christina Pugh’s remarkable prose; she brings a delicate intellectual acuity to her essays which is made capacious by her compassionate wisdom. Reading Christina Pugh’s essays I’m always astonished by the subtle yet deeply profound intimacy in her writing. With this collection, Christina Pugh has joined poets David Baker, Robert Hass, and Rosanna Warren as one of the most compelling essayists we have in American poetry. I treasure this book.”