Cal Bedient

Broschiertes Buch

The Breathing Place

Beschreibung

"The "breathing place" - individual, bespoken - is where the world enters uninvited, where "fair is only an experiment," where poetry's resistance has "slackened, gray, with some rain," where "the garden is a gulf in the intercom, where "today's word from Delphi / is delphinium, expensive / blue word, dust payment due tomorrow," where "seven of my sweet loves drove off of cliffs . . ." - in short, a place of jolts and wrongs, if also of opportunities: "Engage / Lower your oars for the recommencing." It is met here by a style of nervous immediacy, a style built for alertness, not comfort, ready to shove the English language around Americanly, as Gertrude Stein encouraged and Dickinson mastered, and, further, to break out of reality, that already known"--

Autor

Calvin Bedient is professor emeritus at University of California, Los Angeles, is a founding editor of the New California Poetry series, and co-edits Lana Turner: A Journal of Poetry & Opinion. He is the author of several collections of criticism, including Eight Contemporary Poets, He Do the Police in Different Voices: The Waste Land and its Protagonist, and The Yeats Brothers and Modernism's Love of Motion in addition to the poetry collections Candy Necklace, The Violence of the Morning, Days of Unwilling , and The Multiple. He lives in Santa Monica, California.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Omnidawn Publishing, Inc.
• Seitenzahl: 80
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. November 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 224mm x 152mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 181g
• ISBN-13: 9781632430823
• ISBN-10: 1632430827
• Artikelnr.: 59389096