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Written against a backdrop of heartbreak and loneliness and
spanning the geography of Cincinnati, Detroit, and New York, this
is a complex, intriguing book of poetry that plays dynamically with
language as each new reading brings forth something unseen from the
previous reading. Highlighting the varied modes of writing that
Tyrone Williams has mastered-the fractal lyric, the metahistorical
fable, the atomic lexical-Stilettos in a Rifle Range reveals in
high resolution the power of representational strategies within
American English. Williams's language in particular is an
intralingual love affair that all will enjoy.
The essays in Inciting Poetics provide provocative answers to the
book's opening question, ""What are poetics now?"" Authored by some
of the most important contemporary poets and critics, the essays
present new theoretical and practical approaches to poetry and
poetics that address current topics and approaches in the field as
well as provide fresh readings of a number of canonical poets. The
four sections-""What is Poetics?,"" ""Critical Interventions,""
""Cross-Cultural Imperatives,"" and ""Digital, Capital, and
Institutional Frames""-create a basis on which both experienced
readers and newcomers can build an understanding of how to think
and write about poetry. The diverse voices throughout the
collection are both informative and accessible and offer a rich
exploration of multiple approaches to thinking and writing about
poetry today.
The Poetry and Poetics of Michael Heller: A Nomad Memory is the
first comprehensive treatment of a singularly important American
poet of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Michael Heller
(b. 1937) has amassed a body of poetry and criticism that places
him in the vanguard of modern literature, and this essay collection
provides the first extensive critical treatment of his varied
career. This book 's multifaceted appraisal of his engagement with
poetry as well as crucial ideas across various traditions
establishes him as a preeminent writer among his contemporaries and
younger generations, and as a major poet in any era.
Poetry. African American Studies. "These pre-c.c. posts stream to
us from some point 'prior to predication.' It's a place Tyrone
Williams has been exploring on our behalf for a good, long time,
beamed up, as it were, from some Ohio of the spirit, sending his
missives back to us here on planet Grammar, a place of our own
constant care and making where 'meanwhile means dissent.' These are
poems that teach us how to read them, or rather, teach us the deep
structures that we didn't know we knew. Take, for just one
instance, the perfectly rhymed, perfectly logical line, 'X nee
YHWH.' The here unaccented 'nee'-sayer marks the places the vowels
should go, the Xed out spot the tongue should find in history, the
unspeakable languages of our own territorial claims. That's a lot
of work for one line to do, but that's in the nature of scripture.
Tyrone Williams has been hard on the case on our behalf. We owe him
at the least a collective thank-you post-it"--Aldon Lynn Nielsen.
Over 360 essays and analyses of the important works of African
American writers of all genres, including long fiction, short
fiction, poetry, drama and nonfiction are given the Masterplots
treatment in this revised set. New material covered includes
memoirs by Maya Angelou and Jamaica Kincaid, novels by Ralph
Ellison, Terry McMillan and Toni Morrison, poetry by Cornelius
Eady, and young adult literature by Gwendolyn Brooks.
Over 360 essays and analyses of the important works of African
American writers of all genres, including long fiction, short
fiction, poetry, drama and nonfiction are given the Masterplots
treatment in this revised set. New material covered includes
memoirs by Maya Angelou and Jamaica Kincaid, novels by Ralph
Ellison, Terry McMillan and Toni Morrison, poetry by Cornelius
Eady, and young adult literature by Gwendolyn Brooks
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