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Body and Soul - Essays on Poetry (Hardcover)
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Body and Soul - Essays on Poetry (Hardcover)
Series: Poets on Poetry
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Mark Jarman, author of the narrative poem "Iris" and the lyric
sequence "Unholy Sonnets, " is a poet associated with the revival
of narrative and traditional form in contemporary American poetry.
In "Body and Soul" he considers poetry from the Renaissance to the
present in essays that touch on the importance of religion, place,
and personal experience to poetry and reflect Jarman's particular
interests. His focus is on the relationship between lyric and
narrative, song and story, in poems of all kinds. He considers the
poem as a record of both body and soul, and examines his own life,
in an extended autobiographical essay, as a source for the stories
he has told in his poetry.
The essays "Where Poems Take Place" and "A Shared Humanity"
consider the relation between setting or situation and
representation. The psychological roots of narrative are considered
in "The Primal Storyteller." But the main interest of these essays
is how and why narrative is used as a form. The influence of
Robinson Jeffers's style of narrative is argued in "Slip, Shift,
and Speed Up: The Influence of Robinson Jeffers's Narrative
Syntax." In "The Trace of a Story Line" an argument is made that
the poets Philip Levine and Charles Wright employ narration or
storytelling in their poetry as a mode of meaning. Other essays
consider Donald Davie, Philip Larkin, Herbert Lomas, Louis Simpson,
Lyn Hejinian, Tess Gallagher, and Ellen Bryant Voigt.
Mark Jarman's poetry has appeared in many publications, including
the "American Poetry Review" and the "New Yorker." He has won the
Lenore Marshall/Nation Prize of the Academy of American Poets, a
Guggenheim fellowship, and multiple grants from the National
Endowment for the Arts. He is Professor of English, Vanderbilt
University.
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