Rachel Zucker

The Poetics of Wrongness

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Produktbeschreibung

The Poetics of Wrongness is a collection of essay/talks that the poet Rachel Zucker, expanded from lectures presented for the Bagley Wright Lecture Series in 2016. Devastating in their revelations, yet hopeful in their endurance, these are lectures of protest and reckoning. Zucker declares "I write against. My poetics is a poetics of opposition and provocation that I never outgrew. Against the status quo or the powers that be, writing out of and into wrongness." Thus, Zucker deftly dismantles the outdated paradigms of motherhood, aesthetics, feminism, poetics, and politics. Bringing Bernadette Mayer, Marina Abramovic, Alice Notley, Adrienne Rich, Audre Lorde-among many others-into the conversation, Zucker questions the categories that have been imposed on poetry, as well as a poet's need to speak, and the resulting responsibilities. Prescient in their original observations, these expanded talks seek to respond to and engage the many political events since their presentation, remaining timelessly persistent in their galvanizing force.   

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wave Books
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. März 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 209mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 334g
• ISBN-13: 9781950268702
• ISBN-10: 1950268705
• Artikelnr.: 63430109

Autorenporträt

Rachel Zucker is the author of SoundMachine (Wave Books, 2019), The Pedestrians (Wave Books, 2014), and Museum of Accidents (Wave Books, 2009), which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. A graduate of Yale University and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, Zucker is an adjunct professor at NYU and other places and a former Bagley Wright Series lecturer. She lives in Washington Heights, NY and Scarborough, ME.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
* The Poetics of Wrongness, an Unapologia
* What We Talk about When We Talk about the Confessional, and What We
SHOULD Be Talking About
* A Very Large Charge: the Ethics of ‘Say Everything’ Poetry
* Why She Could Not Write a Lecture on the Poetics of Motherhood
* Outro