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Symposium of the Whole - A Range of Discourse Toward an Ethnopoetics (Paperback)
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Symposium of the Whole - A Range of Discourse Toward an Ethnopoetics (Paperback)
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Symposium of the Whole traces a discourse on poetry and culture
that has profoundly influenced the art of our time, with precedents
going back two centuries and more. Beginning with a reassertion of
the complexity of poetry among peoples long labeled "primitive" and
"savage," many recent poets have sought to base a new poetics over
the fullest range of human cultures. The attempt to define an
ethnopoetics has been significantly connected with the most
experimental and future-directed side of Romantic and modern
poetry, both in the Western world and, increasingly, outside it. As
a visionary poetics and as a politics, this complex redefinition of
cultural and intellectual values has involved a rarely acknowledged
collaboration between poets and scholars, who together have
challenged the narrow view of literature that has excluded so many
traditions. In this gathering, the Rothenbergs follows the idea of
an ethnopoetics from predecessors such as Vico, Blake, Thoreau, and
Tzara to more recent essays and manifestos by poets and social
thinkers such as Olson, Eliade, Snyder, Turner, and Baraka. The
themes range widely, from the divergence of oral and written
cultures to the shaman as proto-poet and the reemergence of
suppressed and rejected forms and images: the goddess, the
trickster, and the "human universe." The book's three ethnographic
sections demonstrate how various poetries are structured and
composed, how they reflect meaning and worldview, and how they are
performed in cultures where all art may be thought of as
art-in-motion. Among the poetries discussed are the language of
magic; West African drum language and poetry; the Huichol Indian
language of reversals; chance operations in African divination
poetry; picture-writings and action-writings from Australia and
Africa; and American Indian sacred-clown dramas and traditional
trickster narratives. The cumulative effect is a new reading of the
poetic past and present-in the editors' words, "a changed paradigm
of what poetry was or now could come to be."
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