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Regions of Unlikeness - Explaining Contemporary Poetry (Hardcover)
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Regions of Unlikeness - Explaining Contemporary Poetry (Hardcover)
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In Regions of Unlikeness Thomas Gardner explores the ways a number
of quite different twentieth-century American poets, including
Elizabeth Bishop, John Ashbery, Robert Hass, Jorie Graham, and
Michael Palmer, frame their work as taking place within, and being
brought to life by, an acknowledgment of the limits of language.
Gardner approaches their poetry in light of philosopher Stanley
Cavells remarkably similar engagement with the issues of skepticism
and linguistic finitude. The skeptics refusal to settle for
anything less than perfect knowledge of the world, Cavell
maintains, amounts to a refusal to accept the fact of human
finitude. Gardner argues that both Cavell and the poets he
discusses reject skepticisms world-erasing conclusions but
nonetheless honor the truth about the limits of knowledge that
skepticism keeps alive. In calling attention to the limits of such
acts as describing or remembering, the poets Gardner examines
attempt to renew language by teasing a charged drama out of their
inability to grasp with certainty. Juxtaposed with Gardners
readings of the work of the younger poets are his interviews with
them. In many ways, these conversations are at the core of Gardners
book, demonstrating the wide-ranging implications of the struggles
and mappings enacted in the poems. The interviews are themselves
examples of the charged intimacy Gardner deals with in his
readings. Thomas Gardner, a professor of English at Virginia
Polytechnic Institute and State University, is the author of
Discovering Ourselves in Whitman: The Contemporary American Long
Poem and The Mime, Speaking, a book of poetry.
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