Madonna Anno Domini

Author : Joshua Clover
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0807121487

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Madonna Anno Domini by Joshua Clover Pdf

In his first collection, Joshua Clover presents a harrowing poetic manifesto for the coming century. Clover fuses formal control, a solid grounding in poetic tradition (his allusions range from Shakespeare to Dickinson to John Cale), and sheer visionary exhilaration into a technical, moral, aesthetic, and imaginative lexicon that irradiates each page. The eerie cyberglow of Clover's lines illuminates a pageant of blurred and fragmented desolation: the Bomb, death camps, the Persian Gulf War, the beating of Rodney King, the whole numbing litany of modern horrors. Clover is a master of poetic shorthand, of the stark, unnerving image as immediate as yellow tape at a crime scene. Madonna anno domini is a sacrament for the twilight of the atomic age, a hellish Interzone with "God in abeyance" where dazed speakers search through the vertigo of negation for love and belief. And here. in this utterly convincing vision of a world whose center has long since lost its hold, we see the life on whose brink we, at the end of the millennium, find ourselves poised.

Author : Eric Weisbard
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Music
ISBN : 0674013212

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This is Pop by Eric Weisbard Pdf

This publication is an inquiry that crosses stylistic categories of pop music and writing pop music.

Author : Maryan W. Ainsworth,Petrus Christus,Maximiliaan P. J. Martens,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Painting, Renaissance
ISBN : 9780810964822

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Petrus Christus by Maryan W. Ainsworth,Petrus Christus,Maximiliaan P. J. Martens,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) Pdf

This study is an important new account of the life and work of the flemish master Petrus Christus. It is the first volume to focus specifically on the physical characteristics of his works as criteria for judging attribution, dating, and the extent to which he was indebted to Jan Van Eyck and other artists for the development of his technique and style.

Author : Eric Haralson
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2006-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781587296673

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Reading the Middle Generation Anew by Eric Haralson Pdf

Ten original essays by advanced scholars and well-published poets address the middle generation of American poets, including the familiar---Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Bishop, Randall Jarrell, and John Berryman---and various important contemporaries: Delmore Schwartz, Theodore Roethke, Robert Hayden, and Lorine Niedecker. This was a famously troubled cohort of writers, for reasons both personal and cultural, and collectively their poems give us powerful, moving insights into American social life in the transforming decades of the 1940s through the 1960s.In addition to having worked during the broad middle of the last century, these poets constitute the center of twentieth-century American poetry in the larger sense, refuting invidious connotations of “middle” as coming after the great moderns and being superseded by a proliferating postmodern experimentation. This middle generation mediates the so-called American century and its prodigious body of poetry, even as it complicates historical and aesthetic categorizations.Taking diverse formal and thematic angles on these poets---biographical-historical, deconstructionist, and more formalist accounts---this book re-examines their between-ness and ambivalence: their various positionings and repositionings in aesthetic, political, and personal matters. The essays study the interplay between these writers and such shifting formations as religious discourse, consumerism, militarism and war, the ideology of America as “nature's nation,” and U.S. race relations and ethnic conflicts. Reading the Middle Generation Anew also shows the legacy of the middle generation, the ways in which their lives and writings continue to be a shaping force in American poetry. This fresh and invigorating collection will be of great interest to literary scholars and poets.

Author : Brian M. Reed
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-08-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780801469572

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Nobody's Business by Brian M. Reed Pdf

Since the turn of the new millennium English-language verse has entered a new historical phase, but explanations vary as to what has actually happened and why. What might constitute a viable avant-garde poetics in the aftermath of such momentous developments as 9/11, globalization, and the financial crisis? Much of this discussion has taken place in ephemeral venues such as blogs, e-zines, public lectures, and conferences. Nobody’s Business is the first book to treat the emergence of Flarf and Conceptual Poetry in a serious way. In his engaging account, Brian M. Reed argues that these movements must be understood in relation to the proliferation of digital communications technologies and their integration into the corporate workplace. Writers such as Andrea Brady, Craig Dworkin, Kenneth Goldsmith, Danny Snelson, and Rachel Zolf specifically target for criticism the institutions, skill sets, and values that make possible the smooth functioning of a postindustrial, globalized economy. Authorship comes in for particular scrutiny: how does writing a poem differ in any meaningful way from other forms of "content providing"? While often adept at using new technologies, these writers nonetheless choose to explore anachronism, ineptitude, and error as aesthetic and political strategies. The results can appear derivative, tedious, or vulgar; they can also be stirring, compelling, and even sublime. As Reed sees it, this new generation of writers is carrying on the Duchampian practice of generating antiart that both challenges prevalent definitions or art and calls into question the legitimacy of the institutions that define it.

Author : Andrew Epstein
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780199972159

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Attention Equals Life by Andrew Epstein Pdf

Poetry has long been thought of as a genre devoted to grand subjects, timeless themes, and sublime beauty. Why, then, have contemporary poets turned with such intensity to documenting and capturing the everyday and mundane? Drawing on insights about the nature of everyday life from philosophy, history, and critical theory, Andrew Epstein traces the modern history of this preoccupation and considers why it is so much with us today. Attention Equals Life argues that a potent hunger for everyday life explodes in the post-1945 period as a reaction to the rapid, unsettling transformations of this epoch, which have resulted in a culture of perilous distraction. Epstein demonstrates that poetry is an important, and perhaps unlikely, cultural form that has mounted a response, and even a mode of resistance, to a culture suffering from an acute crisis of attention. In this timely and engaging study, Epstein examines why a compulsion to represent the everyday becomes predominant in the decades after modernism and why it has so often sparked genre-bending formal experimentation. With chapters devoted to illuminating readings of a diverse group of writers--including poets associated with influential movements like the New York School, language poetry, and conceptual writing--the book considers the variety of forms contemporary poetry of everyday life has taken, and analyzes how gender, race, and political forces all profoundly inflect the experience and the representation of the quotidian. By exploring the rise of experimental realism as a poetic mode and the turn to rule-governed "everyday-life projects," Attention Equals Life offers a new way of understanding a vital strain at the heart of twentieth- and twenty-first century literature. It not only charts the evolution of a significant concept in cultural theory and poetry, but also reminds readers that the quest to pay attention to the everyday within today's frenetic world of smartphones and social media is an urgent and unending task.

Author : Joshua Clover
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2006-04-10
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0520939093

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The Totality for Kids by Joshua Clover Pdf

The Totality for Kids is the second collection of poems by Joshua Clover, whose debut, Madonna anno domini, won the Walt Whitman award from the Academy of American Poets. This volume takes as its subject the troubled sleep of late modernity, from the grandeur and failure of megacities to the retreats and displacements of the suburbs. The power of crowds and architecture commingles with the alienation and idleness of the observer, caught between "the brutal red dream/Of the collective" and "the parade/Of the ideal citizen." The book’s action takes place in these gaps, "dead spaces beside the endlessly grieving stream." The frozen tableau of the spectacle meets its double in the sense that something is always about to happen. Political furies and erotic imaginings coalesce and escape within a welter of unmoored allusions, encounters, citations, and histories, the dreams possible within the modern’s excess of signification—as if to return revolutionary possibility to the regime of information by singing it its own song.

Author : Jed Rasula
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2004-05-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780817350307

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Syncopations by Jed Rasula Pdf

An analysis of the sustaining vitality behind contemporary American poetry from 1975 to the 2003, these 12 essays examine both exemplary innovators and the social context in which innovation is resisted, acclaimed, or taken for granted.

Author : Carol Snow
Publisher : Counterpath
Page : 93 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-17
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781933996523

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Position Paper: New and Selected Poems by Carol Snow Pdf

In Position Paper, Carol Snow’s project of noting the world in relation comes fully assembled. This New and Selected Poems gathers work from ArtistandModel, "a first book of singular poetic intelligence and attention" (Michael Palmer), to what Brian Teare called the "compassionately witty" karesansui—collages citing Bashö, Sappho, Picasso, Groucho—to new work in elegy to the poet’s sister consolidating a startling range of means. The art of Henri Matisse, touchstone of invention and “attention or gratitude, not madness,” is one motif attending this collection; the stone and sand arrangement of the Zen garden at Ryoan-ji another; not to mention the 70 prepositions the poet memorized in Junior High School. Snow’s work has been praised as “brilliant, funny, subtle” (Robert Hass), “delicate, masterful” (Cole Swenson), and “a new and mesmerizing way of looking at things” (Fanny Howe). Stones, art, family, elegy, error, perception, prepositions, permutations, “likening . . . like an only hope or home.” The whole, a kind of suite.

Author : Brooke Kroeger
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2004-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781610390262

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Passing by Brooke Kroeger Pdf

Despite the many social changes of the last half-century, many Americans still "pass": black for white, gay for straight, and now in many new ways as well. We tend to think of passing in negative terms--as deceitful, cowardly, a betrayal of one's self. But this compassionate book reveals that many passers today are people of good heart and purpose whose decision to pass is an attempt to bypass injustice, and to be more truly themselves. Passing tells the poignant, complicated life stories of a black man who passed as a white Jew; a white woman who passed for black; a working class Puerto Rican who passes for privileged; a gay, Conservative Jewish seminarian and a lesbian naval officer who passed for straight; and a respected poet who radically shifts persona to write about rock'n'roll. The stories, interwoven with others from history, literature, and contemporary life, explore the many forms passing still takes in our culture; the social realities which make it an option; and its logistical, emotional, and moral consequences. We learn that there are still too many institutions, environments, and social situations that force honorable people to twist their lives into painful, deceit-ridden contortions for reasons that do not hold. Passing is an intellectually absorbing exploration of a phenomenon that has long intrigued scholars, inspired novelists, and made hits of movies like The Crying Game and Boys Don't Cry.

Author : Michael Atkinson
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2008-03-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0791473783

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Exile Cinema by Michael Atkinson Pdf

Offers a cross section of international fringe cinema.

Author : George MANSON (Head Master of the General Assembly's Normal School, Edinburgh.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1846
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0019393644

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The Pupil's Guide to English Etymology: Containing the Principal Roots from the Latin, Greek and Other Languages, with Their Derivatives; Together with Copious Exercises on Prefixes and Affixes by George MANSON (Head Master of the General Assembly's Normal School, Edinburgh.) Pdf

Author : Christopher Nealon
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2023-01-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789004536852

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Infinity for Marxists by Christopher Nealon Pdf

These essays break from decades of dominant “postmodern” readings of poetry, highlighting the 21st century renaissance in anticapitalist poetic activity, and forging new models for reading poems against the backdrop of capital’s deep contradictions.

Author : Claudia Rankine,Lisa Sewell
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2007-07-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0819567280

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American Poets in the 21st Century by Claudia Rankine,Lisa Sewell Pdf

The ideal introduction to the current generation of American poets

Author : Brian M. Reed
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780817356941

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Phenomenal Reading by Brian M. Reed Pdf

"This book examines individually and collectively poets widely recognized as formal and linguistic innovators. Why do their words appear in unconventional orders? What end do these arrangements serve? Why are they striking? Brian Reed focuses on poetic form as a persistent puzzle, utilizing historical fact and the views of other critics to clarify how particular literary works are constructed and how those constructions lead to specific effects." -- Back cover.