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Intricate Thicket - Reading Late Modernist Poet (Paperback, 2)
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Intricate Thicket - Reading Late Modernist Poet (Paperback, 2)
Series: Modern and Contemporary Poetics Series
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In Intricate Thicket: Some Late Modernist Poetries, Mark Scroggins
writes with wit and dash about a fascinating range of key
twentieth- and twenty-first-century poets and writers. In nineteen
lively and accessible essays, he persuasively argues that the
innovations of modernist verse were not replaced by postmodernism,
but rather those innovations continue to infuse contemporary
writing and poetry with intellectual and aesthetic richness. In
these essays, Scroggins reviews the legacy of Louis Zukofsky,
delineates the exceptional influence of the Black Mountain poets,
and provides close readings of a wealth of examples of poetic works
from poets who have carried the modernist legacy into contemporary
poetry. He traces with an insider's keen observation the careers of
many of the most dynamic, innovative, and celebrated poets of the
past half-century, among them Ian Hamilton Finlay, Ronald Johnson,
Rae Armantrout, Harryette Mullen, and Anne Carson. In a concluding
pair of essays, Scroggins situates his own practice within the
broad currents he has described. He reflects on his own aesthetics
as a contemporary poet and, drawing on his extensive study and
writing about Louis Zukofsky, examines the practical and
theoretical challenges of literary biography. While the core of
these essays is the interpretation of poetry, Scroggins also offers
clear aesthetic evaluations of the successes and failures of the
poetries he examines. Scroggins engages with complex and
challenging works, and yet his highly accessible descriptions and
criticisms avoid theoretical entanglements and specialized jargon.
Intricate Thicket yields subtle and multifaceted insights to
experts and newcomers alike.
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