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James Tate is one of America's most respected and senior poets,
whose influence is increasingly widespread. However, his whimsical
play has long challenged critics to read him with any depth. After
winning the Yale Prize in 1967 for his first book, The Lost Pilot,
published when he was just twenty-three, Tate has since gone on to
win major literary awards including the Pulitzer Prize, the
National Book Award, and the Tanning Prize for Lifetime Achievement
from the Academy of American Poets. This is the first monograph
dedicated to Tate's oeuvre. The author provides a practical reading
theory for Tate, complete with contextual frameworks. Close
readings of Tate's work are informed by the purposeful
purposelessness of Kant, the surrealist debt to Breton, and the
problems and pleasures of language as explored by Derrida. Tate's
great achievement is no less than a reconfiguring of the modern
American lyric as a poetry of dramatic and dialogic narrative.
Composed out of 'odds and ends ... of no great moment', as the poet
himself writes, Tate's work extends the varied American traditions
of writers such as William Carlos Williams, Wallace Stevens, John
Berryman, and John Ashbery.
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Anthony Caleshu
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In his new book of poems, Anthony Caleshu writes after the visual
art of Julie Curtiss, Jadé Fadojutimi, Shara Hughes, Shio Kusaka,
Henry Taylor, Emma Webster, and Jonas Wood (also included, a
musical interlude after the music of Pixies). Poems move in and out
of interiors, portraits, landscapes, abstractions, and the
phenomena of xenia – Greek for ‘hospitality’, later adopted
by the Romans as a category of ‘still-life’ painting featuring
welcoming platters of fruit and the like. If ekphrastic in
tradition, the poems privilege lyric and narrative in(ter)vention,
springboarding from the visual arts into new spaces of speculation,
transformation, and wonder.
The publication of this anthology comes a year into the Covid-19
pandemic. In the summer of 2020, we invited nineteen UK poets to
partner with poets from around the world, to work collaboratively
on poems responding to the virus. The poems herein are as personal
as they are communal, and as local as they are international.
Between them, the writers reside in all of the world's permanently
populated continents, recognising that the pandemic has truly hit
us everywhere. Their diversities of aesthetics and poetics, of
Covid experiences - at a distance and/or embodied, anecdotal and/or
dramatic - are further significant to their inclusion and their
work. The pairs of contributors are: Sinéad Morrissey and Jan
Wagner (trans. Iain Galbraith); Carol Leeming and Rakhshan Rizwan;
George Szirtes and Alvin Pang; Vahni Capildeo and Vivek Narayanan;
Rory Waterman and Togara Muzanenhamo; Rachael Allen and Ilya
Kaminsky; Zoë Skoulding and Yana Lucila Lema Otavalo; Inua Ellams
and Omar Musa; Matthew Welton and Hazel Smith; Vidyan Ravinthiran
and Arvind Krishna Mehrotra; Anthony Caleshu and Mariko Nagai;
Selima Hill and Wang Xiaoni (trans. Eleanor Goodman); Declan Ryan
and Linda Stern Zisquit; David Herd and Sharmistha Mohant; Luke
Kennard and Hwang Yu Won (trans. Jake Levine); André Naffis-Sahely
and Stacy Hardy; Harriet Tarlo and Craig Santos Pérez; Jennifer
Cooke and Jèssica Pujol Duran; Momtaza Mehri and A. E. Stallings.
“Caleshu’s new collection is magnificent. There’s something
uniquely pleasurable and painful about the blinding insights in
every prose poem. It’s like someone looking you in the eye and,
unusually, feeling compelled to hold their gaze. What really moves
me here is the way we hedge our disappointment, play our joy
against our self-awareness. So much love and fear and grace and
frustration: it’s at once uncomfortable and deeply
life-affirming. It’s maybe a rare quality in contemporary poetry,
but what makes this work so authentically alive, so urgent and
poignant is that very ambivalence, delivered with a restless
intellect and wit and turn of phrase that keeps you coming back.”
—Luke Kennard
"Anthony Caleshu's Victor is a wild ride, an arctic adventure, a
spirited quest narrative, a mad love poem to the imagination in all
its unstrung wild joys. The exuberance of address in this poem is
contagious, at once zany and intimate, descriptive and lyric, it's
pedal to the metal and won't let up. Caleshu is an extremely gifted
and accomplished poet and a true romantic to boot." -Peter Gizzi
A collection of essays based on the conference of the same name
held at the Univeristy of Plymouth in April 2007. Contributors are
Lyn Hejinian, Barrett Watten; Andrea Brady, Allen Fisher, Robert
Hampson, Richard Kerridge, Peter Middleton, William Rowe, Robert
Sheppard; Helene Aji, Andrew Browne, Matt Chambers, Brendan Cooper,
Ian Davidson, Carrie Etter, Kit Fryatt, Piers Hugill, Michael
Kindellan, Greg Lainsbury, Catherine Martin, Will Montgomery, Eva
Mueller-Zettelman, Susan Nurmi-Schomers, Christopher Orchard, Robin
Peel, Kathy-Ann Tan, Philip Terry and Scott Thurston.
This first critical book of essays on the poetry of Peter Gizzi
shows how his work extends the traditions of nineteenth- and
twentieth-century modernism while also reclaiming the living
presence of the "lyric" in its capacity to sing of the human
predicament. Gizzi is author of seven critically acclaimed books of
poetry, including most recently Threshold Songs and Archeophonics,
a finalist for the National Book Award in 2016. Lauded
contributors, including Ben Lerner, Michael Snediker, Marjorie
Perloff, and Charles Altieri, explore Gizzi's poetry for its
embodiment of an American tradition-extending the poetics of
Whitman, Dickinson, and Stevens, amongst others-while also
exhibiting a twenty-first-century sensibility, perpetuating a new
grammar and syntax to capture our place in the world today. Each
essayist, in turn, works through close-readings of some of the most
important poems of our times, enriching our understanding of a
poetry of the mind which never loses track of what it means to
feel.
This first critical book of essays on the poetry of Peter Gizzi
shows how his work extends the traditions of nineteenth- and
twentieth-century modernism while also reclaiming the living
presence of the "lyric" in its capacity to sing of the human
predicament. Gizzi is author of seven critically acclaimed books of
poetry, including most recently Threshold Songs and Archeophonics,
a finalist for the National Book Award in 2016. Lauded
contributors, including Ben Lerner, Michael Snediker, Marjorie
Perloff, and Charles Altieri, explore Gizzi's poetry for its
embodiment of an American tradition-extending the poetics of
Whitman, Dickinson, and Stevens, amongst others-while also
exhibiting a twenty-first-century sensibility, perpetuating a new
grammar and syntax to capture our place in the world today. Each
essayist, in turn, works through close-readings of some of the most
important poems of our times, enriching our understanding of a
poetry of the mind which never loses track of what it means to
feel.
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