The Resistance to PoetryUniversity of Chicago Press, 7 thg 8, 2009 - 144 trang Poems inspire our trust, argues James Longenbach in this bracing work, because they don't necessarily ask to be trusted. Theirs is the language of self-questioning—metaphors that turn against themselves, syntax that moves one way because it threatens to move another. Poems resist themselves more strenuously than they are resisted by the cultures receiving them. But the resistance to poetry is quite specifically the wonder of poetry. Considering a wide array of poets, from Virgil and Milton to Dickinson and Glück, Longenbach suggests that poems convey knowledge only inasmuch as they refuse to be vehicles for the efficient transmission of knowledge. In fact, this self-resistance is the source of the reader's pleasure: we read poetry not to escape difficulty but to embrace it. An astute writer and critic of poems, Longenbach makes his case through a sustained engagement with the language of poetry. Each chapter brings a fresh perspective to a crucial aspect of poetry (line, syntax, figurative language, voice, disjunction) and shows that the power of poetry depends less on meaning than on the way in which it means—on the temporal process we negotiate in the act of reading or writing a poem. Readers and writers who embrace that process, Longenbach asserts, inevitably recoil from the exaggeration of the cultural power of poetry in full awareness that to inflate a poem's claim on our attention is to weaken it. A graceful and skilled study, The Resistance to Poetry honors poetry by allowing it to be what it is. This book arrives at a critical moment—at a time when many people are trying to mold and market poetry into something it is not. |
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Alfred Prufrock Ashbery Auden Baudelaire beginning Bernstein Bidart Bishop Cantos Chicago Collected Poems Complete Poems composed wonder crave Dickinson disjunction dream Ecco Eliot end-stopped enjambment experience Ezra Pound Farrar figurative language final lines forget Fra Lippo Lippi Frank Bidart free verse Glück Graham Hopewell human illusion imagine Johnny Cake Hollow Jorie Graham landscape line endings Louise Glück lyric meaning memory metaphor meter Michael Davidson mind never opening lines Oppen pleasure poem poem's poems feel poet poet's poetic poetry's Prufrock question repetition RESISTANCE TO POETRY rhyme Richard Poirier Robert Pinsky says seems sense sentence Shut the Other's song sound speak spoken squat stove stanza Stevens story strategic Straus & Giroux suggests syllables syntactical syntax thing Tintern Abbey tree turning Ulysses University Press Untelling untidy activity voices W. H. Auden Wild Iris Williams Wind word Wordsworth writing Yeats York
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