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Forms of a World - Contemporary Poetry and the Making of Globalization (Hardcover)
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Forms of a World - Contemporary Poetry and the Making of Globalization (Hardcover)
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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.
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