Thinking Poetry

This collection brings together some of the most prominent critics of contemporary poetry, and some of the most significant poets working in English today, to offer a critical assessment of the nature and function of poetic thought. It was originally published as a special issue of Textual Practice.

Autorentext

Peter Nicholls is Professor of English at New York University, USA. His publications include Ezra Pound: Politics, Economics and Writing (1984), Modernisms: A Literary Guide (1995), George Oppen and the Fate of Modernism (2007) and many articles and essays on literature and theory. He was editor of Textual Practice from 2002-8.

Peter Boxall is Professor of English at the University of Sussex, UK. Recent books include Don DeLillo: The Possibility of Fiction (2006) and Since Beckett: Contemporary Writing in the Wake of Modernism (2009). He has been the editor of Textual Practice since 2009.

Inhalt

1. Introduction: Thinking Poetry Peter Nicholls and Peter Boxall 2. Poetic Thought J.H. Prynne 3. The Melodics of Long Poems Simon Jarvis 4. Open Oppen: Linguistic fragmentation and the poetic proposition Peter Middleton 5. Pound's New Criticism Rebecca Beasley 6. La filosofica famiglia: Cavalcanti, Avicenna, and the 'form' of Ezra Pound's Pisan Cantos Ronald Bush 7. Cold Noses at the Pearly Gates Maud Ellmann 8. Language in Migration: Multilingualism and exophonic writing in the new poetics Marjorie Perloff 9. Glossing Gloss and its Undertow John Wilkinson 10. Wrong Poetry Keston Sutherland