Measure's Measure: Poetry & Knowledge - Couverture souple

Stein, Charles; Boughn, Michael

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1581771959 ISBN 13 : 9781581771954

Editeur : Barrytown/Station Hill Press, Inc., 2024

Synopsis

At the heart of Michael Boughn’s Measure’s Measures are fundamental questions about poetry’s relation to modes of knowing the world beyond what’s given. Lovingly addressed to the work of poets associated with the New American Poetry and their predecessors, these essays probe the development of what Boughn calls the somatic poetics of transformative gnosis. Boughn’s method combines a wide range of scholarship with his affectionate personal knowledge of many of the poets, and a radically decentered view of the stakes poetry brings to considerations of our post-modern moment. Rethinking the history of 20th century US American poetry, these essays challenge the academic containment of poetry to literary studies, opening it into a thriving wilderness of thinking being.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Michael Boughn worked in the Teamsters for nearly ten years before returning to university to earn a PhD in 1986 after studying with poets John Clarke and Robert Creeley. He is the author of ten books of poetry, including Iterations of the Diagonal, DISLOCATIONS IN CRYSTAL, 22 SKIDDO / SUBTRACTIONS, COSMOGRAPHIA: A POST- LUCREATIAN FAUX MICRO-EPIC (shortlisted for the 2011 Governor General's Award for Poetry), GREAT CANADIAN POEMS FOR THE AGED VOL. 1 ILLUS. ED. (2012), and most recently, CITY: BOOK 1: SINGULAR ASSUMPTIONS (BookThug, 2014). He has also published books for young adults, including the Maple Award nominated Into the World of the Dead, a mystery novel, and a descriptive bibliography of the American poet, H.D. He recently edited (with Victor Coleman) Robert Duncan's The H.D. Book for the University of California Press. He has taught courses at the University of Toronto since 1993, recently focusing primarily on American writing with special emphasis on the innovative writers of the 20th and 21st centuries.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Barrytown/Station Hill Press, Inc.
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1581771959
• ISBN 13: 9781581771954
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 268
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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