The material of poetry
Subtitle: sketches for a philosophical poetics
By: Gerald L. Bruns.
Series: Georgia Southern University. Jack N. and Addie D. Averitt lecture series ;; no. 13; Jack N. and Addie D. Averitt lecture series ;; no. 13.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Athens
Language: eng
Number of pages: 143
Subjects: Poetry.; Poetics.
Description: "Poetry's sense and meaning can hide in the spaces in which it is written and read, says Gerald L. Bruns, and so he urges us to become anthropologists, to go afield in poetry's social, historical, and cultural settings. From that perspective, Bruns draws on works by such varied poets as Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, Steve McCaffery, and Francis Ponge to argue for three seemingly competing points. First, poetry is made of language but is not a use of it. That is, poetry is made of words but not of what we use words to produce: concepts, narratives, expressions of feeling, and so on. Second, as the nine sound poems on the compact disc included with the book demonstrate, poetry is not necessarily made of words but is rooted in, and in fact already fully formed by, sounds the human body can produce. Finally, poetry belongs to the world alongside ordinary things; it cannot be confined to some aesthetic, neutral, or disengaged dimension of human culture."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 129-138) and index.