The art of daring
Subtitle: risk, restlessness, imagination
By: Carl Phillips
Series: The art of series; Art of series
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 142
ISBN-13: 9781555976811
Subjects: Poetics; Authorship; Poetry
Description: The award-winning poet Carl Phillips's invaluable essays on poetry, the tenth volume in the celebrated Art of series of books on the craft of writing. In six insightful essays, Carl Phillips meditates on the craft of poetry, its capacity for making a space for possibility and inquiry. What does it mean to give shapelessness a form? How can a poem explore both the natural world and the inner world? Phillips demonstrates the restless qualities of the imagination by reading and examining poems by Ashbery, Bogan, Frost, Niedecker, Shakespeare, and others, and by considering other art forms, such as photography and the blues.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Restlessness. Little gods of making; title: On restlessness; title: Beautiful dreamer; title: Poetry, love, and mercy; title: Penetration. Which one's the world?; title: Heaven and earth; title: Daring. Foliage.