Why “silent rules”? Poetry is made of sound, in the form of
speech, but is governed by rules which are not stated explicitly.
As a help to readers, we try to tease out and make plain these
silent rules. You have to perceive the structure of a work in order
to read it. The subtitle is “inside and out” and becoming an
insider involves knowing what the silent rules are. So much of the
staging of modern poetry has operated a kind of “stereo
blindness”, in which whatever is visible to observer A is
invisible to observer B, and vice versa. Annulling territoriality
and blocks on visibility, we try to disengage a “cultural
field”, a low-resolution set of gradients which on mapping
displays the cultural space inside which every literary move takes
place. If you populate all the squares, eventually you have the
map. By setting things in their true relations, much that had been
suppressed or denied emerges in the light of day. The “hero of
the piece” is the entire landscape, the awe-inspiring span from
one end of the poetry world to the other. This completes the
“heptagonal vortex”, a set of seven volumes about British
poetry in the period 1960 to 1997. The message is that poetic merit
is scattered over the landscape and that loyalty to a faction is
not compatible with full aesthetic principles and a thorough
approach to collecting primary evidence.
General
Imprint: |
Shearsman Books
|
Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
August 2018 |
Authors: |
Andrew Duncan
|
Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 18mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
326 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-84861-609-7 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
1-84861-609-0 |
Barcode: |
9781848616097 |
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