On Mount Vision
Subtitle: forms of the sacred in contemporary American poetry
By: by Norman Finkelstein
Series: Contemporary North American poetry series; Contemporary North American poetry series
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Iowa City
Language: eng
Number of pages: 277
ISBN-13: 9781587298578
Description: "This beautifully written work begins with an overview of the spiritual problematics found in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American poetry. Traveling slightly outside of the realm of the contemporary, Finkelstein's discussions of Emerson, Whitman, and Eliot yield to close readings of the works of Robert Duncan, Jack Spicer, Ronald Johnson, Michael Palmer, Susan Howe, Nathaniel Mackey! and Armand Schwerner, In restoring verse to its place alongside scripture, Finkelstein reminds us why the sacred remains crucial to our understanding of postmodern American poetry."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-273) and index.
Table of contents: title: From poetry to scripture / Robert Duncan; title: The poetics of kosmos / Ronald Johnson; title: A reason to be-/leave / Jack Spicer; title: History as séance / Susan Howe; title: The problem of spirit / Michael Palmer; title: Shamanism and the unity of all rites / Nathaniel Mackey; title: The sacred and the real / Armand Schwerner.