Phenomenology and the Late Twentieth-Century American Long Poem [electronic resource] /
Carbery, Matthew.author.
Phenomenology and the Late Twentieth-Century American Long Poem reads major figures including Charles Olson, Lyn Hejinian, Nathaniel Mackey, Susan Howe and Rachel Blau DuPlessis within a new approach to the long poem tradition. Through a series of contextualised close readings, it explores the ways in which American poets developed their poetic forms by engaging with a variety of European phenomenologists, including Hannah Arendt, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Martin Heidegger, Emmanuel Levinas and Jacques Derrida. Consolidating recent materials on the role of Continental Philosophy in American poetics, this book explores the theoretical and historical contexts in which avant-garde poets have developed radically new methods of making poems long. Matthew Carbery offers a timely commentary on a number of major works of American poetry whilst providing ground-breaking research into the wider philosophical context of late twentieth-century poetic experimentation.
1. Coming To Terms With The American Long Poem- Introduction -- 2. Finding A Word For Ourselves - George Oppen's Of Being Numerous -- 3. A Huge Companionship - Robin Blaser's Image-Nations -- 4. A Grand Essay On Perception - Lyn Hejinian & Leslie Scalapino's Sight -- 5. A Massive System of Urgency - Susan Howe's Pierce Arrow -- 6. Adumbration Bound Our Book - Nathaniel Mackey's 'Song of Andoumboulou' -- 7. The Book Withdraws Into Itself Rachel Blau DuPlessis' Drafts -- 8. An Ever-Renewed Experience Of Its Own Beginning - Conclusion.
Phenomenology and the Late Twentieth-Century American Long Poem reads major figures including Charles Olson, Lyn Hejinian, Nathaniel Mackey, Susan Howe and Rachel Blau DuPlessis within a new approach to the long poem tradition. Through a series of contextualised close readings, it explores the ways in which American poets developed their poetic forms by engaging with a variety of European phenomenologists, including Hannah Arendt, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Martin Heidegger, Emmanuel Levinas and Jacques Derrida. Consolidating recent materials on the role of Continental Philosophy in American poetics, this book explores the theoretical and historical contexts in which avant-garde poets have developed radically new methods of making poems long. Matthew Carbery offers a timely commentary on a number of major works of American poetry whilst providing ground-breaking research into the wider philosophical context of late twentieth-century poetic experimentation.
Poetry.
America-Literatures.
Literature, Modern-20th century.
Poetry and Poetics.
North American Literature.
Twentieth-Century Literature.