What happens when we think of poetry as a global literary form,
while also thinking the global in poetic terms? Forms of a World
shows how the innovations of contemporary poetics have been forged
through the transformations of globalization across five decades.
Sensing the changes wrought by neoliberalism before they are made
fully present, poets from around the world have creatively
intervened in global processes by remaking poetry’s formal
repertoire. In experimental reinventions of the ballad, the
prospect poem, and the ode, Hunter excavates a new, globalized
interpretation of the ethical and political relevance of forms.
Forms of a World contends that poetry’s role is not only to make
visible thematically the violence of global dispossessions, but to
renew performatively the missing conditions for intervening within
these processes. Poetic acts—the rhetoric of possessing,
belonging, exhorting, and prospecting—address contemporary
conditions that render social life ever more precarious. Examining
an eclectic group of Anglophone poets, from Seamus Heaney and
Claudia Rankine to Natasha Trethewey and Kofi Awoonor, Hunter
elaborates the range of ways that contemporary poets exhort us to
imagine forms of social life and enable political intervention
unique to but beyond the horizon of the contemporary global
situation.
General
| Imprint: |
Fordham University Press
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| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
December 2018 |
| First published: |
2019 |
| Authors: |
Walt Hunter
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| Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 16mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback - Trade
|
| Pages: |
192 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-8232-8221-0 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
General
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| LSN: |
0-8232-8221-X |
| Barcode: |
9780823282210 |
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