Jorie Graham is one of the most important American poets now writing. This first book-length study brings together thirteen previously published essays and review essays by many of the major critics currently interested in her work and five new essays commissioned for this volume. Commenting on each of Graham's eight poetry collections, these essays encompass the range of critical thought that her work has attracted, both surveying it broadly and engaging closely with individual poems.
These essays identify three broad concerns that run through each of her strikingly different volumes of poems: the movement of the mind in action, the role of the body in experiencing the world, and the pressures of material conditions on mind and body alike. Gardner both shows how Graham is being read at the moment and charts new areas of investigation likely to dominate thinking about her over the next decade. This collection is sure to become the crucial first step for all future work on Graham and on American poetry of the last two decades.
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Jorie Graham : Essays on the Poetry (Univ. of Wisconsin Press, 2005). Contributors include Bonnie Costello, Elisabeth Frost, Calvin Bedient, Helen Vendler, ...
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Thomas Gardner, ed., Jorie Graham: Essays on the Poetry, collects thirteen previously published pieces by critics including Bonnie Costello, Helen Vendler, ...
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Jorie Graham: Essays On The Poetry. Author(s): Gardner, Thomas. ISBN10: 0299203204. ISBN13: 9780299203207. Cover: Hardcover. Copyright: 07/06/2005 ...
www.biggerbooks.com/ book/ 9780299203207 Less Popular passagesYou have waited, you always wait, you dumb, beautiful ministers, We receive you with free sense at last, and are insatiate henceforward, Not you any more shall 'be able to foil us, or withhold yourselves from us, We use you, and do not cast you aside — we plant you permanently within us... Page 139 I caught this morning morning's minion, kingdom of daylight's dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn Falcon, in his riding Of the rolling level underneath him steady air, and striding High there, how he rung upon the rein of a wimpling wing In his ecstasy! then off, off forth on swing, As a skate's heel sweeps smooth on a bow-bend: the hurl and gliding Rebuffed the big wind. My heart in hiding Stirred for a bird,— the achieve of, the mastery of the thing! Page 107 The orchestra whirls me wider than Uranus flies, It wrenches such ardors from me I did not know I possess'd them, It sails me, I dab with bare feet, they are lick'd by the indolent waves, I am cut by bitter and angry hail, I lose my breath, Steep'd amid honey 'd morphine, my windpipe throttled in fakes of death, At length let up again to feel the puzzle of puzzles, And that we call Being. Page 233 Fat girl, terrestrial, my summer, my night, How is it I find you in difference, see you there In a moving contour, a change not quite completed? You are familiar yet an aberration. Civil, madam, I am, but underneath A tree, this unprovoked sensation requires That I should name you flatly, waste no words, Check your evasions, hold you to yourself. Page 55 What would we really know the meaning of? The meal in the firkin; the milk in the pan; the ballad in the street; the news of the boat; the glance of the eye; the form and gait of the body... Page 98 The meal in the firkin, the milk in the pan, the ballad in the street, the news of the boat, the glance of the eye, the form and the gait of the body ; show me the ultimate reason of these matters; show me the sublime presence of the highest spiritual cause lurking, as always it does lurk, in these suburbs and extremities of nature... Page 98 ... found a new form that will hold." If that rather overbearing definition leaves the species Hymenoptera in its rapidly broadening wake — the wake of the Arbella and its flotilla might come to mind instead — it nonetheless suggests the behavior of these poems. As in her earlier Region of Unlikeness, St. Augustine supplies the epigraph to this volume ("To say I love you is to say I want you to be"), and it might be that in conceptualizing its "swarm" we should think also of his description of... Page 148 LessContents | 13 | | | | | 34 | | | | | 42 | | | | | 60 | | | | | 75 | | | | | 82 | | | | | 113 | | | | | 147 | | | |
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