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vi, 198 pages ; 21 cm. |
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text txt rdacontent |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Series |
Poets on poetry |
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Poets on poetry.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Poetics and Poetry. What We Talk About When We Talk About Poetry ; How Do You Mean That? Some Thoughts on Meaning in Poems ; Picture This: On the Concept of Poetic Imagery ; On Difficulty in Poetry ; Scattered Thoughts on Fracture ; Defining "Post-Avant-Garde" Poetry ; "Only in the Light of Lost Words Can We Imagine Our Rewards": On John Ashbery's Some Trees ; Brief Notes on Celan, Difficulty, and Meaning. -- Art and Society. A Few Words on Wilfred Owen ; Adorno, Celan, and the Possibility of Poetry ; Caliban to the Audience: The Tempest as Colonialist and Anti-Colonialist Text ; Saving the Appearances ; What Is Progressive Art? ; Marx, Labor, and the Artist ; Some Issues in the Teaching of Creative Writing.-- Intention, Aspiration, Inspiration. On the Intentional Fallacy ; Some Thoughts on the Long Poem ; In a Major Key ; Taking Dictation from a Martian Muse. -- Illness, Identity, and Poetry. Illness and Poetry: A Few Reflections ; Who Can I Be Now? ; Long Hard Road Out of Hell ; ¿Tiene Dolor? ; Heaven Is a Place Where Nothing Ever Happens: On Tim Dlugos's "Turandot" ; What's in a Name? |
| Summary |
"Those who have read Orpheus in the Bronx, Reginald Shepherd's previous collection of essays about the act of creating poetry, and those who take on the task, can immediately understand why it was a national finalist for a prestigious National Book Critics Circle Award. Shepherd was candid and disarming, practical and funny, able to mix thoughts about the Transformers with meditations on the realities of growing up poor. This is Reginald Shepherd's final opportunity to speak his mind about the craft he loved, the art of using words to express the soul and the wit of every person's experience. Edited by Shepherd's longtime partner and intellectual confidant, Robert Philen, A Martian Muse stands as a final monument to a master in the craft, but is also a readable, important work in its own right."--Publisher's website. |
| Subject |
Shepherd, Reginald, 1963-2008.
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Poetry -- Authorship.
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Poetics.
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Politics and literature.
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Literature -- Philosophy.
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Shepherd, Reginald, 1963-2008 (OCoLC)fst01773083
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Poetics. (OCoLC)fst01067682
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Poetry -- Authorship.
(OCoLC)fst01067694
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Politics and literature. (OCoLC)fst01069960
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| Added Author |
Philen, Robert.
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| ISBN |
9780472070978 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
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0472070975 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
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9780472050970 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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0472050974 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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