Being Human Is an Occult Practice - Couverture souple

Zurawski, Magdalena

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1946433462 ISBN 13 : 9781946433466

Editeur : Ugly Duckling Presse, 2021

Synopsis

In the essay Being Human Is an Occult Practice, Zurawski argues that studying and sharing literature can function as a means of enriching the impoverished definition of 'human' created by capitalist social relations. Beginning with an analysis of Robert Duncans description of the moment in his high school classroom when he finds himself called into a life in poetry, this essay explores the possibilities of the literature classroom at the very moment that its being dismantled by the neoliberalization of our university systems. Zurawski argues that the literary holds a revitalizing potential precisely because of its capacity of exceeding the narrow imaginative aims of life within our contemporary social order.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Magdalena Zurawski is the author of the novel The Bruise, which won the Ronald Sukenick Award from FC2 in 2008 and a LAMBDA literary award in 2009, and the collection of poems Companion Animal, which was published by Litmus Press and won a Norma Faber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America. The Tiniest Muzzle Sings Songs of Freedom (Wave Books) is her most recent poetry collection. Her poem/essay Don’t Be Scared is available as a chapbook from The Operating System.

As an undergraduate Magdalena studied with poets Rosmarie and Keith Waldrop, C.D. Wright, and Peter Gizzi. She has lived in Berlin, New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Durham, NC where she ran the Minor American Reading Series. She is currently Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Georgia, where she directs the Creative Writing Program.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Ugly Duckling Presse
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1946433462
• ISBN 13: 9781946433466
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 32
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible