At a time when wars, acts of terrorism, and ecological degradation have intensified and isolationism, misogyny, and ethnic divisiveness have been given distinctively more powerful voice in public discourse, language itself often seems to have failed. The poets and critics in this book argue that language has the potential to address this increasing level of discord and precarity, and they negotiate ways to understand poetics, or the role of the poetic, in relation to language, the body politic, the human body, breath, the bodies of the natural environment, and the body of form.
Poetry makes urgent issues audible and poetics helps to theorize those issues into critical consciousness. Poetry also functions as a cry to protest late capitalist imperialism, misogyny, racism, climate change, and all the debilitating conditions of everyday life. Hubs of concern merge and diverge; precarity takes differently gendered, historied, embodied, geopolitical manifestations. The contributors articulate a poetics that renders what has not yet been crystallized as discourse into fields of force. They also acknowledge the beauties of sound, poetry, and music, and celebrate the power of community, marking the surge of energy that can occur at a particular place at a particular moment. Ultimately,
Poetics and Precarity fosters further conversations that will imagine the concerns of poetics as a continuously emerging field.
Tabla de materias
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Myung Mi Kim and
Cristanne Miller
Breath and Precarity: The Inaugural Robert Creeley Lecture in Poetry and Poetics
Nathaniel Mackey
The Ga(s)p
M. Nourbe Se Philip
Precarity Shared: Breathing as Tactic in Air’s Uneven Commons
Jennifer Scappettone
On Not Missing It
Elizabeth Willis
Here and Elsewhere: Creeley’s Notions of Community and Teaching as Circulation
Vincent Broqua
Constructive Alterities & the Agonistic Feminine
Joan Retallack
Precarity, Poetry, and the Practice of Countermapping
Adalaide Morris and
Stephen Voyce
Supine, Prone, Precarious
Sarah Dowling
The Opening of the (Transnational Battle) Field
Heriberto Yépez
Appendix 1: Poetry in the Making: A Bibliography of Publications by Graduate Students in the Poetics Program, 1991–2016
James Maynard
Appendix 2: Schedule for the Robert Creeley Lecture and Celebration of Poetry, April 7–10, 2016
Appendix 3: “Poetics: (The Next) 25 Years” Conference, Seminar Topics and Participants, April 9–10, 2016
List of Contributors
Index
Sobre el autor
Myung Mi Kim is James H. Mc Nulty Chair of English at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. She is the author of several books of poetry, including
Penury,
Dura, and
Under Flag, winner of the Multicultural Publishers Exchange Award of Merit.
Cristanne Miller is SUNY Distinguished Professor and Edward H. Butler Professor of English Literature at the University at Buffalo. She is the author of many books, including
Reading in Time: Emily Dickinson in the Nineteenth Century and
Cultures of Modernism: Marianne Moore, Mina Loy, and Else Lasker-Schüler.
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