Essays and Interviews on Contemporary American Poets, Poetry, and Pedagogy: A Thirty-Year Creative Reading Workshop

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Anthem Press, Sep 10, 2024 - Literary Criticism - 302 pages

In sixteen chapters devoted to avant-garde contemporary American poets, including Kenneth Goldsmith, Adeena Karasick, Tyrone Williams, Hannah Weiner, and Barrett Watten, prolific scholar and Purdue University professor Daniel Morris engages in a form of cultural repurposing by “learning twice” about how to attend to writers whose aesthetic contributions were not part of his education as a student in Boston and Chicago in the 1980s and 1990s when new formalism and post-confessional modes reigned supreme.
Morris’s study demonstrates his interest in moving beyond formalism to offer what Stephen Fredman calls “a wider cultural interpretation of literature that emphasizes the ‘new historicist’ concerns with hybridity, ethnicity, power relations, material culture, politics, and religion.” Essays address from multiple perspectives—prophetic, diasporic, ethical—the vexing problems and sublime potential of disseminating lyrics—the ancient form of transmission and preservation of the singular, private human voice across time and space—to an individual reader, in an environment in which e-poetry and digitalized poetics pose a crisis (understood as both opportunity and threat) to traditional page poetry.

 

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Contents

Populism Curation and Late
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On Norman Finkelsteins
Remembering Literary Community
Torqued language poetry and radical mimesis in c c
An Interview with Patrick Durgin about Hannah Weiner
Interview with Adeena Karasick on Checking
Το Teach is to Learn Twice Poetry Poetics and Pedagogy
On Teaching Introduction to Poetry
Dutchmans Modernist Roots
Two Interviews with Thomas Fink
Reviewing Peter Dale ScottReviewing Myself
Seeing Double at Philip Guston Now in
Goodbye Heavilon Hall
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About the author (2024)

Daniel Morris is Professor of English at Purdue University, USA.

Bibliographic information

TitleEssays and Interviews on Contemporary American Poets, Poetry, and Pedagogy: A Thirty-Year Creative Reading Workshop
AuthorDaniel Morris
PublisherAnthem Press, 2024
ISBN1839992255, 9781839992254
Length302 pages
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Literary Criticism / American / General
Literary Criticism / Jewish
Literary Criticism / Poetry
Poetry / General
  
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