In Reading Duncan Reading, thirteen scholars and poets examine, first, what and how the American poet Robert Duncan read and, perforce, what and how he wrote. Harold Bloom wrote of the searing anxiety of influence writers experience as they grapple with the burden of being original, but for Duncan this was another matter altogether. Indeed, according to Stephen Collis, "No other poet has so openly expressed his admiration for and gratitude toward his predecessors."
Part one emphasises Duncan's acts of reading, tracing a variety of his derivations-including Sarah Ehlers's demonstration of how Milton shaped Duncan's early poetic aspirations, Siobhán Scarry's unveiling of the many sources (including translation and correspondence) drawn into a single Duncan poem, and Clément Oudart's exploration of Duncan's use of "foreign words" to fashion "a language to which no one is native."
In part two, the volume turns to examinations of poets who can be seen to in some way derive from Duncan-and so in turn reveals another angle of Duncan's derivative poetics. J. P. Craig traces Nathaniel MacKey's use of Duncan's "would-be shaman," Catherine Martin sees Duncan's influence in Susan Howe's "development of a poetics where the twin concepts of trespass and 'permission' hold comparable sway," and Ross Hair explores poet Ronald Johnson's "reading to steal." These and other essays collected here trace paths of poetic affiliation and affinity and hold them up as provocative possibilities in Duncan's own inexhaustible work.
Contributors: J. P. Craig, Sarah E. Ehlers, George Fragopoulos, Stephen Fredman, Ross Hair, Catherine Martin, Peter O'Leary, Clemént Oudart, Siobhán Scarry, Jeffrey Twitchell-Waas, Andy Weaver
| ISBN: | 9781609381165 |
| Publication date: | 31st December 2012 |
| Author: | Stephen Collis, Graham Lyons |
| Publisher: | University of Iowa Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 271 pages |
| Series: | Contemporary North American Poetry Series |
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Literary studies: poetry and poets |
In Reading Duncan Reading, thirteen scholars and poets examine, first, what and how the American poet Robert Duncan read and, perforce, what and how he wrote. Harold Bloom wrote of the searing anxiety of influence writers experience as they grapple with the burden of being original, but for Duncan this was another matter altogether. Indeed, according to Stephen Collis, "No other poet has so openly expressed his admiration for and gratitude toward his predecessors."
Part one emphasises Duncan's acts of reading, tracing a variety of his derivations-including Sarah Ehlers's demonstration of how Milton shaped Duncan's early poetic aspirations, Siobhán Scarry's unveiling of the many sources (including translation and correspondence) drawn into a single Duncan poem, and Clément Oudart's exploration of Duncan's use of "foreign words" to fashion "a language to which no one is native."
In part two, the volume turns to examinations of poets who can be seen to in some way derive from Duncan-and so in turn reveals another angle of Duncan's derivative poetics. J. P. Craig traces Nathaniel MacKey's use of Duncan's "would-be shaman," Catherine Martin sees Duncan's influence in Susan Howe's "development of a poetics where the twin concepts of trespass and 'permission' hold comparable sway," and Ross Hair explores poet Ronald Johnson's "reading to steal." These and other essays collected here trace paths of poetic affiliation and affinity and hold them up as provocative possibilities in Duncan's own inexhaustible work.
Contributors: J. P. Craig, Sarah E. Ehlers, George Fragopoulos, Stephen Fredman, Ross Hair, Catherine Martin, Peter O'Leary, Clemént Oudart, Siobhán Scarry, Jeffrey Twitchell-Waas, Andy Weaver
Reading Duncan Reading features in the following genres: Literary studies: poetry and poets
Reading Duncan Reading is available in Paperback
Reading Duncan Reading was written by Stephen Collis, Graham Lyons and published by University of Iowa Press
Reading Duncan Reading has 271 pages
Yes it is part of Contemporary North American Poetry Series series